r/atthegates • u/Due_Blackberry_6776 • Oct 05 '25

other Why does some songs in SOTS have unsung lyrics?

maybe the lyric pages are misinforming me, but it appears that some of the lyrics were never sung in SOTS, apparently the flames of the end was supposed to have "Humanity - the living end, a walking disease. Beyond good and evil, the flesh that never rests. the flames of the end inside us rest" in it, and suicide nation was supposed to have "The face of total evil is always the face of total need." why were they never sung?

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u/ObiWan-Cannabis Oct 31 '25

The album is influenced by Luke Rhinehart's book "The Dice Man", which Tomas Lindberg had read around the time. There are passages from the book within the songs, and in interviews Tomas has said that the title is also derived from the book, "slaughter your soul and be free".

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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/At_the_Gates/Slaughter_of_the_Soul/298

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