Tomas Lindberg (1972-2025)

[Achille]

Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg, chanteur d'At The Gates (entre autres...) nous a quitté aujourd'hui. Cela faisait des mois qu'il se battait contre un cancer et malheureusement celui-ci a fini par l'emporter.

RIP.

[Set]

l'artiste

[BurningDarkness]

Très triste nouvelle
Ce gars est une légende et il était encore jeune

[Everflow]

Une légende du metal suédois et du metal extrême en général, et aussi un gars qui faisait visiblement l'unanimité auprès de tous ceux qui l'ont côtoyé, décrit comme très chaleureux et cultivé, loin de l'image stéréotypée du hurleur hirsute de death metal.

[Ika]

Ça m'a frappé dur le décès de Tompa, je voulais partager mon petit hommage

Goodbye Tomas, and Thank You

I never truly knew you, Tomas, not in the way friends or the people you worked with did. But like so many others around the world, your music found its way into my life and left a permanent mark. And now that you're gone, I feel compelled to say something: a thank you, a farewell, and an attempt to express the weight of your influence, even on people you never met.

You were a defining force in shaping the Gothenburg metal scene, a movement that didn’t just stay local but echoed across continents, changing the landscape of extreme music forever. That sound, your sound, found me years ago and changed the way I listened to music, the way I felt it.

I discovered At The Gates at Hellfest in 2018. A good friend told me, “You can’t miss them.” And he was absolutely right. That performance was monumental: fierce, emotional, unforgettable. It was more than just a show; it was a revelation. I remember feeling completely blown away. And then I managed to run into you after the gig. I got to say a quick “thank you” and get a blurry photo.

After that, I saw At The Gates another three times, each concert as intense and moving as the last. The final time I saw you play was in Gothenburg itself, the very city that gave birth to the sound that shaped me. That show was something special. I remember looking around and seeing other local musicians in the crowd, people who had grown up with your music just like I had and were with you when you created this movement. They weren’t there as peers that night, they were fans, like me, caught up in the energy, the history, the legacy you helped build.

The Gothenburg music scene was one of the reasons that I chose Chalmers university and moved to Gothenburg for two years. Whist I was living there I watched the Under a Serpent Sun documentary, that dives into the history of At The Gates and by extension the history of the Gothenburg metal scene, and suddenly the streets I walked every day had a new weight to them. The city wasn’t just a backdrop anymore, it was a character in the story you helped write.

Not long after watching that film, I ran into you again, this time outside Sticky Fingers. You were playing with Lock Up that evening. I didn’t want to bother you before the gig, so I just said a quick hello and let you go. But I wish I’d said more. I wish I’d told you how much your music meant. How it led me to places I never expected, both geographically and personally.

So I’ll say it now:
Thank you, Tomas.
For the music.
For the legacy.
For shaping a sound that changed lives, including mine.
You may be gone, but the echo of your voice, your riffs, your vision, it’s still with us, and it always will be.

Rest in power.

Ika

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