At The Gates - The Break of Autumn

From their 1993 Album With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness


Catch the rainbow if you can
It will always be ahead of you

Years passing swifter than you ever thought
Today will soon be behind you
And the future remains out of reach

Hunting the sun, setting at the horison
When shadows threat to swallow your weak soul
The key of light, the solution of all
I saw it clearly behind the veil of reality
And as I dreamed the lilies white
In the shade of a birch
They withered in the frost of awakening

Fiery the angels fell from the spires of my fortress of youth
Silent explosions in my universe of pain

Appease my hunger, defeat my solitude
And let me follow where daydreams go
When ambitions fall

Watch the sky, there is proof of your transcience
The stars that saw the birth ofour ancestors
Shall watch our descendants last steps on earth
So, unnoticed we will pass away,
Like a flickering in the perpetual chaos

The timebird rose from it's nest of bones
And thrust it's beak in my eye
With the beat of charging wings
My transcience was confirmed

Time perhaps for a salutary sleep
I still long for that silent land of dreams
Where the flames expire, where the spark fades
And hunger is born again

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Music

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• Death
• Metal
• At
• The
• Gates
• Break
• Autumn
• In
• Flames
• Dark
• Tranquillity
• Carcass
• Gothenburg

[CyanideBuffet]

Every person I know who likes metal absoloutely loves At The Gates

Pioneers of metal? I think SO!

[schwarzerFalkeunten]

from 0:01 to 4:54 is awesome

[mjonas10]

@Anthyrst Early At the Gates takes a long while to get into.

[shockofhyperbole]

@Anthyrst I guess so, especially if you find In Flames' vocals appealing.

[Anthyrst]

I don't get it, I like In Flames, I like Dark Tranquility... but I don't actually like this (Even though I hear from many that they should be better..)

No hate though, sounds cool... just the vocals repel me. This odd?

[quarbio]

tomas's lyrics are phenomenal on this album, if only they had persisted with the psilocybin induced psychosis for the rest of their career. when shadows threaten to swallow your weak soul, the key of light, the solution of all, i saw it clearly behind the veil of reality. and as i dreamt of lilies white, in the shade of a birch, they withered in the frost of awakening. shroomers know the score, straight up.

[vatoloco22]

@CyanideBuffet pioneers of melodic death metal

[TheOneblackened]

Great songs, I just hate the super scooped production on the album. Very muddy. I really love at the gates though.

[ruination866]

originality!!! 

[jimmyhayers]

@CyanideBuffet Listen to Dissection as well

[gunnerexplorer]

love the cover

[yerkil28]

awesome acoustic interlude 3:48