Getting a virus from trying to download Slaughter of the Soul from Limewire in the 2000s is like getting herpes from a gypsy with sexual powers: absolutely worth it and, really, only a temporary problem so long as you don't tell anyone about it. For the price I paid in those years I received a love for fast, melodic death metal that distinctly came from Sweden, and that is mainly to the credit of At The Gates (and Limewire... and In Flames... but they haven't written something as juicy as this recently). Now, what immediately ought to follow that is a similarly solemn and necessarily deserved rest in peace to the great Tomas Lindberg. In that knowing, this sort of posthumous release of The Ghost of a Future Dead is a thematically even more confronting piece of music. The instrumentation is very much what you expect, and hope for, with any At The Gates release - and it delivers here, big time. The whole album is great - from the melodic leads to the crushing and joyous rhythms,; the song compositions and the totality of the album itself, and it pains me to functionally be listening to the last At The Gates release as we know them. But, what we have in The Ghost of a Future Dead is an album that, like Tomas, will not be forgotten.