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Interviews: Toomas Lindberg (At the gates)

Lindberg needs a little intro. A former singer with At the Gate, present singer with Defear, with a series of groups and musicals in between, he has burned his gravelly growling to some of the metal's most beautiful times. With Lindberg I spoke about At the Glades, his new carreer as a classroom instructor and the forthcoming single album by Freddy Esby (!).

Would you have liked this to have been done sooner? That'?s not how we feel. The good things that have been happening between the break up of the group and the meeting of the group - maybe this wouldn't have been happening if the group were still together. Would At the Gate have been able to avoid a separation? Had we been a few years older, we might have made some ripe choices and had more mutual esteem.

Not the best ambassadors (laughs). A lot of reunited groups often say that they have calmed down and overcome their conflict since they were younger. Is that what you saw with At the Gate? It is not only that we could prevent the conflict, it is like: "What were the conflict? Even then, there were really no major disputes.

There was more of a feeling of stress and fatigue. What are the odds of that? I' m not saying anything I have to take back. and we really felt like a group again, and we became really good buddies and began to just start hanging out again.

I' ve realised that these are boyhood buddies who were supposed to be hanging out. Someday maybe we could make a punkband or a 7?. It' more like one of us is playing in different line-ups. So I could see this, some kind of action here and there. We' d like to make it together.

It' d get away from the expectations of being at the gate. So when the Gemini (Anders and Johnny Björler) went out and did The Hacken? No, I was sick of the whole deal-metals thing. Otherwise, the most wise choice was made, and that didn't let me make the one.

Years later it was very confusing from a musical point of view, but it was good for me to find it all. Do you have any more to say? Being one of those great acts, At the Gentleman was really boundless when it came to deathmetal. No restraints were imposed.

A few of them - it was probably good that they never became formal (laughs). However, it is good to try out its pianos in different environments. They were more the same kind of contexts - harcore, post-rock, punk, whatever. One does not have to control everything, but one wants to try to do different things.

Their careers are divided into more melodious groups like At the Glades and Nighrage, and more crusty, punk band like Ski System and Defear. One has to consider that most of these groups were on the melodical side, which I did not found. My founding groups were Ski System and The Great Deceivers, which were more on the loud, hard-core side.

I' ve been more proactive in the punk/hardcore idea, not only musical, but also lyrical and political. However, I also grown up with it on the metallic side. It' more of a pleasure. I' m enjoying it, but it's not what I should be doing, I think. It' more important with the punk/hardcore thing.

I' m portraying something I really want to convey. It' difficult to summarize in one phrase. This was the case when I wrote mystic texts with my old group, the grotesque. I' ve always tried to find different ways and experimented with different ways to see what I might encounter.

However, I can definitely say that[my point of departure is] more lefts. Well, what do you mean? It all happens when someone wins something out of a position. This was a big move, because even if the boarding house is free, you don't really make money[at school]. If you have children and everything, you have to take a big leap into schooling.

However, I really felt that it was something that moved me forward as a human being and was the next logical move. I can very well reconcile it with my music. Noticing that the children with the "cool" instructor think they can push through the course (laughs).

It' s no mystery that I am a vocalist in a punch or bass group, but it doesn't have to be the first thing they hear. A thing I got from the Damnedish deal metric ( "Death Metal" books, discussed here by Daniela Ekeroth) was that much of the 90' was due to the fact that Swedes had a good OS.

Still the same? It has been exterminated because large scales of nationalism are being overthrown. It' on its way down in Europa, the whole charity concept. However, it is still better than in most European Union states. Everyday somehow Swedes look more like the States. There is a lot of poverty[in America].

There were many big aspirations for the simple man, to have a place and all that. However, all charitable institutions were demolished before they began. It' a really violent land. It'?s tough. I don't live there; I can't really annotate that. However, from a more historic or sociological point of view, I really sincerely believe that you are getting a municipal healthcare system or at least trying to set a charitable status in motion.

How does Swede start to look like the United States? They sell the formerly state-owned enterprises, such as the postal service, the domestic railways and so on. I mean, things that weren't about cash before began about cash. Globalisation is, of course, also a good thing.

For this we have a good infra-structure. However, at the same epoch, with the web, it is more difficult..... before, it was more insulated. This could never have happen before. It' more about cash, and who can buy things. I' ve got a teenaged girl - she's very nervous with advertisements and posters that get dropped on her every single second.

It' getting harder. At the moment it is mainly Defear. That is why we try to make it as pleasant as possible for ourselves and thus also to be more sincere towards man. There are more creative and creative work. This could be interesting. Yeah, he's doing a one-man album with, like, ten different vocalists, and I'm one of the happy ones.

I' m not sure I should be on a lead with him. It' an all-star cast. Talking of old men, you go back a long way with Fêniz, since you made the Dark Throneogo. Well, not really on that base. I really am a sociable man. Do I like talking to humans?

That'?s rare. Actually, a bunch of shit. I' m always listening to new and old things. So I like these new US acts like Liiturgy and Kristallice, the new kind of avant-garde rockers. Something of the new old fashioned dead-metals, like Funebrarum. Many old things like Axe Grinder, Hell Hammer, such things are always used.

I like the new one. That'?s why I came to the lyrics, to the liturgies, to the krallices and these groups. It took some work because it was really hard and really strange. No, not really. You know where all this shit is if you want to find it, because I have this big collection.

You don't hear any violent sound (laughs). But of course I'm commenting things. That'?d be terrible, wouldn' it? Sort of like a nickel back or something.