To Drink from the Night Itself

To Drink from the Night Itself is the sixth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates, released on 18 May 2018 via Century Media.[6][7] The album is the first to feature guitarist Jonas Stålhammar and the first without co-founding guitarist Anders Björler, who had departed from the band in March 2017.[8]

To Drink from the Night Itself
Studio album by At the Gates
Released	18 May 2018
Recorded	12 November − 17 December 2017
Studio	Various Parlour Studios (Kettering, England) Welfare Studios (Gothenburg, Sweden)[1] Rovljud Studios (Örebro, Sweden)[1]
Genre	Melodic death metal
Length	44:41
Label	Century Media
Producer	Russ Russell
At the Gates chronology
At War with Reality (2014) To Drink from the Night Itself (2018)
Singles from To Drink from the Night Itself
"To Drink from the Night Itself" Released: 2 March 2018[2] "A Stare Bound in Stone" Released: 30 March 2018[3] "Daggers of Black Haze" Released: 27 April 2018[4] "The Mirror Black (feat. Rob Miller)" Released: 11 January 2019[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	8/10[10]
Pitchfork	7.3/10[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
Sputnikmusic	3.8/5[13]

Upon its release, To Drink from the Night Itself received generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 78 based on 6 reviews.[9]

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Decibel	Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2018	11	[14]
Revolver	Revolver's Top 30 Albums of 2018	30	[15]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tomas Lindberg; all music is composed by Jonas Björler.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Der Widerstand" (instrumental)	1:28
2.	"To Drink from the Night Itself"	3:23
3.	"A Stare Bound in Stone"	4:08
4.	"Palace of Lepers"	4:05
5.	"Daggers of Black Haze"	4:42
6.	"The Chasm"	3:21
7.	"In Nameless Sleep"	3:37
8.	"The Colours of the Beast"	3:50
9.	"A Labyrinth of Tombs"	3:30
10.	"Seas of Starvation"	3:56
11.	"In Death They Shall Burn"	3:59
12.	"The Mirror Black"	4:42
Total length:		44:41

Limited Mediabook Edition bonus CD[16]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Daggers of Black Haze" (feat. Rob Miller)	4:47
2.	"The Chasm" (feat. Per Boder)	3:21
3.	"A Labyrinth of Tombs" (feat. Mikael Nox Pettersson)	3:32
4.	"The Chasm" (demo)	3:21
5.	"The Mirror Black" (feat. Rob Miller)	4:38
Total length:		19:39

Japanese edition bonus CD

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Daggers of Black Haze" (feat. Rob Miller)	4:47
2.	"The Chasm" (feat. Per Boder)	3:21
3.	"A Labyrinth of Tombs" (feat. Mikael Nox Pettersson)	3:32
4.	"Raped by the Light of Christ (2018)" (re-recorded from With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness)	2:57
5.	"The Chasm" (demo)	3:21
6.	"The Mirror Black" (feat. Rob Miller)	4:38
Total length:		22:36

Personnel

At the Gates Tomas Lindberg – lead vocals Martin Larsson – guitars, acoustic guitar Jonas Stålhammar – lead guitar, Mellotron, backing vocals Jonas Björler – bass, keyboards, acoustic guitar, backing vocals Adrian Erlandsson – drums

Additional musicians[16] Andy LaRocque – guitar solo (track 7) Rob Miller – vocals (tracks 1 and 5 on bonus CD) Per Boder – vocals (track 2 on bonus CD) Mikael Nox Pettersson – vocals (track 3 on bonus CD) Rajmund Follmann – cello Peter Nitsche – double bass Tony Larsson – violin

Production[1][2] Russ Russell – producer, recording, mixing, mastering Tomas Lindberg – producer Jonas Björler – producer Per Stålberg – recording (vocals) Olle Björk – recording (vocals) Martin Jacobson – recording (strings) Costin Chioreanu – artwork, layout Ester Segarra – photography Patric Ullaeus – music video (track 2)

Charts

Chart (2018)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[17] [18]	22
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[19]	39
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[20]	132
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[21]	18
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22]	10
Scottish Albums (OCC)[23]	61
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[24]	13
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[25]	25
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[26]	8
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[27]	18

References

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3. Joe Divita (2018-03-30). "At the Gates Will Obliterate You With 'A Stare Bound in Stone'". Loudwire. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
4. "Video Premiere: AT THE GATES' 'Daggers Of Black Haze'". Blabbermouth.net. 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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