At the Gates is a Swedish band who, inspired by classical and Nordic folk music, contributed to the rise of melodic death metal in the 1990s. Over the course of their original run, they released four albums, the last of which, 1995's Slaughter of the Soul, is considered a milestone of the genre. The band broke up just two years later, and for the next decade its former members co-founded the band The Haunted. In 2007, At the Gates reunited and have since released a further three albums, the most recent of which is 2021's The Nightmare of Being.