At The Gates "With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness"

With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness is the second studio album by the Swedish death metal band At the Gates. It was re-released in 1993 with The Red in the Sky Is Ours and again in 2003 with bonus tracks.

Anders Björler, the guitarist, described With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness as At the Gates' "darkest album", and deemed the album's production as "heavier" than the group's previous work.

Tomas Lindberg, the vocalist, said of the album cover: "The cover [...] is probably my favorite. It is a piece of art made by Swedish author/artist/composer Åke Hodell. The piece is called 220 Volt Buddha. Åke approved for us to use it for free, after inquiring about the music of the band and our approach, as soon as he understood that we were a non-commercial act. He has composed several pieces of abstract music, written radio plays and novels. You could consider him a modernist along the lines of Vladimir Mayakovsky. It was an honour for me to work with him and I think the blue tone matches the abstract music on the album perfectly. Åke died in 2000. He is greatly missed."

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tomas Lindberg, except where noted; all music is composed by Alf Svensson and Anders Björler, except where noted.

1. "Beyond Good and Evil" Svensson, A. Björler, Adrian Erlandsson 2:42
2. "Raped by the Light of Christ" A. Björler 2:58
3. "The Break of Autumn" Svensson, Lindberg 4:59
4. "Non-Divine" 4:44
5. "Primal Breath" Svensson Svensson 7:22
6. "The Architects" A. Björler, Lindberg A. Björler 3:30
7. "Stardrowned" 4:02
8. "Blood of the Sunsets" 4:33
9. "The Burning Darkness" 2:16
10. "Ever-Opening Flower" 4:59
11. "Through the Red" 3:26

Total length: 45:29

Cover artwork was originally created by Åke Hodell and has the title "220 Volt Buddha."

"Through the Red" has a few seconds of silence and contains the hidden track "The Nightmare Continues", which is a Discharge cover.

Reissued in 1995 as a double CD with The Red in the Sky Is Ours through Peaceville.

Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Sweden, in April 1993.