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''At War with Reality'' is the fifth studio album by Swedish death metal band At the Gates, released on 28 October 2014. It is the band's first album since ''Slaughter of the Soul'' (1995), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career, and their first release on Century Media Records.〔 It is a concept album based on the literary genre of magic realism.〔http://www.centurymedia.com/newsdetailed.aspx?IdNews=14763&IdCompany=3〕 ''At War with Reality'' received positive reviews from music critics, and music videos were released for "Death and the Labyrinth", "Heroes and Tombs" and The Book of Sand (The Abomination)". ==Background== After breaking up in 1996, At the Gates announced on October 18, 2007 that they would reunite for several reunion shows in the summer of 2008. Throughout July 2008, they toured the US and Canada on what was dubbed the "Suicidal Final Tour", and the last date of the tour took place in Athens, Greece, with guest The Ocean on September 21, 2008. Despite playing a handful of successful reunion shows, members of At the Gates stated that they would not record a new album, suggesting that it would be "pointless to release something more than ten years after ''Slaughter of the Soul''."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=At The Gates Oct/Nov Australian Tour )〕 After a two year hiatus, At the Gates announced their second reunion in December 2010, and that they would do a "limited run of select shows" in 2011. They also announced that they would "stick to the initial promise of not making any more music." Asked in October 2012 about the possibility of new At the Gates material, frontman Tomas Lindberg replied, "Well, basically, I've learned never to say never. We said we'd never do any more shows whatsoever and now we're doing shows (). 2008 was the last tour we were going to do and now we are doing more (). I learned not to say never you know." On January 21, 2014, At the Gates released a distorted video on YouTube showing lines of lyrics on it, followed by text saying "2014", possibly hinting toward possible lyrics for an upcoming album. Six days later, the band revealed on Facebook via a new cover photo and profile picture, that they had signed to Century Media Records, and would begin recording their fifth album ''At War with Reality'' in June/July for a tentative October/November 2014 release.〔 On August 14, the band announced they had completed the album, and that it would be released on October 28.〔 In a November 2014 interview, Lindberg was asked whether ''At War with Reality'' is At the Gates' final album or the band will continue recording. His response was, "We can't say really. We have no plans of stopping but we've broken promises before so it's best not to say anything." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「At War with Reality」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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