The vocalist for At the Gates/Disfear just passed away from cancer.
Slaughter of the Soul is one of the best and most influential albums ever in heavy music.
I remember when I downloaded it randomly from Unixpunx.org ftp not knowing anything about the band or album at all, and listening to it saying "this is the coolest shit ever". Something about going into it blind, not knowing who they were or that it was "supposed to be" this super big album really hammers home to me how truly great it is.