This is an analysis of song lyrics from the At The Gates band. I used lyrics from the darklyrics.com. I included all their songs (41 song) except “Bister Verklighet”, since it’s not in English. I used voyeurtools.org for text analysis.

In 41 song there was a total of 5 611 words, and 1 293 unique words. Two longest songs (by words) are:

  • All Life Ends (350 words)
  • City Of Screaming Statues (268)

Three shortest songs (by words) are:

  • The Flames Of The End (24)
  • The Burning Darkness (36)

Two highest vocabulary density* songs are:

  • The Burning Darkness (888.9)
  • The Flames Of The End (833.3)

Two lowest vocabulary density* songs are:

  • City Of Screaming Statues (350.7)
  • Blinded By Fear (384.0)

Most frequent words in all songs:

  • soul (36)
  • life (35)
  • forever (26)
  • end (25)
  • pain (24)

Most frequent words in all songs

Word cloud from At the Gates lyrics, with soul, life, end and eyes among the largest words

Distinctive words in songs (compared to all songs):

  • All Life Ends: life (8), ends (5), time (4), bones (3), caught (2).
  • At The Gates: sleep (5), crave (4), gates (4), lord (3), chaos (3).
  • Beyond Good And Evil: beyond (3), dies (2), stars (2), evil (2), ’cause (1).
  • Blinded By Fear: face (8), unleashed (5), fears (5), purgatory (4), earth (4).
  • Blood Of The Sunsets: sun (4), blood (3), freedom (2), golden (2), sunsets (2).

*Vocabulary density is a measurement of vocabulary usage in comparison to the length of the text.