Terminal Spirit Disease (Dig) [Original recording remastered, Extra tracks]

At The Gates | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Label: Peaceville UK
• ASIN: B0000CE11Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Swarm

2. Terminal Spirit Disease

3. And The World Returned

4. Forever Blind

5. The Fevered Circle

6. The Beautiful Wound

7. All Life Ends (live)

8. The Burning Darkness (live)

9. Kingdom Gone (live)

10. Windows (live)

11. The Red In The Sky Is Ours The Season To Come (live)

12. The Burning Darkness (live)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good warm-up for an imminent classic, December 29, 1999

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"[e-mail]" (mi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Terminal Spirit Disease (Audio CD)

If you haven't heard At the Gates, this isn't the one to start with. That would be their next album, "Slaughter of the Soul". However, once you've absorbed that one, make sure to get this one, too. At the Gates set a standard for Swedish death metal bands, basically breaking the constraints of traditional death, for a more melodic, exciting sound. This is sort of an EP, padded out with a few live tracks. Good stuff, but the band's masterpiece would be it's next one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kill the worm that is depression..., November 1, 2004

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Euronymous (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Terminal Spirit Disease (Audio CD)

This album is so painfully beautiful. Don't let tags like NWSDM put it down. It is unique and doesn't need the reference of a genre for its appreciation. Tomas Lindberg lets out such an anguished heart-rending scream that I believe he feels the same inside. For some reason, he reminds me of Ricky Fitz in American Beauty who sees all `the beauty in this world' and feels `like he can't take it.' To provide a further masochistic twist to the experience, the guitars are also incredibly beautiful and sing like tortured angels. This is one album that makes me foolishly believe in an eternity- of space, time or melancholic beauty. Terminal Spirit Disease, the song, numbs me every single time I hear it and makes me a spectator of things. I feel wise, cursed and beyond redemption every time I hear it. Again, Lindberg's soaring scream sears my heart and I suspect I actually bleed inside on hearing it. This music is as dangerous as mind-bending drugs.
I'd recommend putting it on a spaceship for Extra-Terrestrial life

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Godly Grim Death Metal, May 2, 2000

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Meehan Huq (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terminal Spirit Disease (Audio CD)

This is a great example of how Swedish Death Metal should sound, grim, harsh, and as cold as the worst nordic winter. This is technical death metal at it's best and a milestone for this band. Contrary to popular belief, I feel this is this bands last great release as the later stuff gets a bit too melodic and a tad on the weak side. This album and The Red in the Sky..... are the epitome of At the Gates' material.