GMD Poll: Best song on At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours

[Vegard Pompey]

This is the first in a series of polls to determine the community's favorite songs on the highest-ranked albums in the GMD yearly polls. Eligible albums (any that scored 50 points or higher) will be done in a randomized order, to keep you all in perpetual suspense. First up is...

At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours

Ranked #3 for the year 1992 with 69 points

1. The Red in the Sky is Ours / The Season to Come
2. Kingdom Gone
3. Through Gardens of Grief
4. Within
5. Windows
6. Claws of Laughter Dead
7. Neverwhere
8. The Scar
9. Night Comes, Blood Black
10. City of Screaming Statues

Vote for your favorite track! The poll will stay open for 2 weeks, in case you need to think this over real hard... I can't blame you.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

first pick is the Holy Bible of the in-crowd? What kind of rigged system is this?

jokes aside, this is a great idea

 

[CiG]

 

[no country for old wainds]

I hear music and it guides me
On my quest to infinity

A harbor appears within the mist
It's a lighthouse, a sunrise
For a soul starved of light

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Actually, this is really easy for me. While every song on this album is near perfect, Neverwhere is the pinnacle. Phenomenal song structure and progressions and deeply thought-provoking lyrics.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I think this is something like a 4-way tie for me between Kingdom Gone, Within, Neverwhere and City of Screaming Statues.

 

[no country for old wainds]

voting for the title track, 'windows', 'claws of laughter dead', 'the scar' or 'night comes, blood black' would be inexplicable to me. the rest are fair game, all 10/10s in my book.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Voted for "Through Gardens of Grief", but it's really hard to view the tracks apart from each other on such a dynamic and cohesive record. I can hear the next track every time I think back at a particular track.

 

[CiG]

Actually, this is really easy for me. While every song on this album is near perfect, Neverwhere is the pinnacle. Phenomenal song structure and progressions and deeply thought-provoking lyrics.

Right there with you on this one.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Almost went with Within, but...

KINGDOM FUCKING GONE!

 

[CiG]

I almost went with "City of Screaming Statues" just because I like the EP so much.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Within, but Neverwhere is just about as amazing.

voting for 'kingdom gone', 'claws of laughter dead', 'the scar' or 'night comes, blood black' would be inexplicable to me. the rest are fair game, all 10/10s in my book.

ftfy

 

[no country for old wainds]

'kingdom gone' is one of the least ambitious songs on the album but probably the most sublime.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's pretty edgy and and shallow compared to anything else on the album. There's a reason it's the one song that survived into their newer setlists.

 

[no country for old wainds]

maybe, but 95% of other death metal is edgy and shallow compared to that song. structurally it's still pretty weird and elaborate by metal's usual standards, and neither the twisted nightmare riffs nor the epic crescendo they morph into sound like anything from any other band's catalogue. the transition from the soaring emotion of the 'inverted we've lived our lives' passage back into the song's darkest riff with that second 'FOREVERRRRR' is probably my all-time favourite in any metal song tbh; an unbelievably fucking haunting and malevolent denial of catharsis.

in other words it owns your ass nigga

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's still a 7/10 it's just nothing special.

 

[CiG]

Great counter-argument. GTFO no country you bum.

 

[Phylactery]

Went with Within, but I could have gone for Through Gardens of Grief, Neverwhere or Kingdom Gone.

It's pretty edgy and and shallow compared to anything else on the album. There's a reason it's the one song that survived into their newer setlists.

I’d say this about Windows, which is probably the least unique song on the record and sounds closest to what they’d do later. Still a great song though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Great counter-argument. GTFO no country you bum.

it's cute that we still argue even though we picked the same song

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Definitely Within.