At the Gates Unleash New Song “The Dissonant Void”: Stream

At the Gates have released “The Dissonant Void” as the second single from their upcoming album, The Ghost of a Future Dead, set to arrive April 24th.

The single, like the other songs on the album, features the posthumous vocals of late frontman Tomas Lindberg, who recorded his tracks before he sadly passed away this past September at age 52 after a battle with cancer.

The song continues the sonic approach that has marked At the Gates’ material since their reunion with 2016’s At War with Reality, even incorporating a slower melodic portion that seems at first like the opening to a ballad. The band continues to showcase the emotional heft behind their approach to melodic death metal that has made them the head of the pack for so many decades.

The influential Swedish band said in a statement, “Originally considered to be the title track – it’s a powerful, melodic and to the point track with the classic At the Gates style sound.”

The video for the track features an intense animation done by Costin Chioreanu, part of an album-length project that will launch alongside the record.

Chioreanu stated, “This video, together with the whole ‘The Ghost of a Future Dead’ movie, represent my ultimate homage to the genius which will forever remain as Tomas Lindberg. It was a colossal task to express visually the depth and the darkness of these lyrics and music for an entire album, which also is most probably the darkest record I ever worked for.”

Watch the video for “The Dissonant Void” below, and pre-order The Ghost of a Future Dead at this location.