At War with Reality

At War with Reality is the fifth studio album and major label debut by Swedish melodic 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. It is a concept album based on the literary genre of magic realism.

At War with Reality
Studio album by
At the Gates
Released28 October 2014 (2014-10-28)
Recorded24 June – 18 July 2014
Studio
  • • Studio Fredman, Gothenburg
  • • HVR Studios, Suffolk ("El Altar del Dios Desconocido")
GenreMelodic death metal
Length44:16
LabelCentury Media Records
ProducerFredrik Nordström
At the Gates chronology
Slaughter of the Soul
(1995)		 At War with Reality
(2014)		 To Drink from the Night Itself
(2018)
Singles from At War with Reality
  1. "We Are Connected / Language of the Dead"
    Released: 31 March 2015

At War with Reality received positive reviews from music critics, and music videos were released for the songs "Death and the Labyrinth", "Heroes and Tombs", The Book of Sand (The Abomination)" and "The Night Eternal". It was the band's last studio album to feature co-founding guitarist Anders Björler, who departed from the band in 2017 before returning in 2022.

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