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  • Summary: The eighth full-length studio release from Swedish death metal band At the Gates is the first with Anders Björler since 2014's At War With Reality and the final album with Tomas Lindberg (who passed way from complications related to his cancer treatment in 2025).
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  1. Jun 16, 2026
    100
    A wonderful, beautiful thing to have a final offering in which an absent friend is shown in their best, most blinding light. Rather than a sad lamentation, it blazes with the incandescence of one truly alive.
  2. Record Collector
    Jun 16, 2026
    80
    Fans of ATG's tremendously influential early albums will welcome the unforgiving tempos and the slick solos that gave the original music such audible contrast. [Jul 2026, p.92]
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jun 16, 2026
    70
    No funereal ballads, no cliched elegies, just brutal yet deceptively streamlined noise, the way they've always done it. [Jun 2026, p.77]
  4. Jun 16, 2026
    68
    The Ghost of a Future Dead is a solid melodic death metal album that will give fans of the genre, and the band, the closure they need after such an unfortunate loss.