At War with Reality
It’s been 19 years since the Gothenburg death metal band At the Gates released Slaughter of the Soul, one of the best, most innovative, and most influential metal albums of the '90s. The long-awaited follow-up, At War With Reality, rocks with fury and passion.
At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul closed with "The Flames of the End," and so it was for the next 19 years: the career end of one of metal's brightest young bands had seemingly gone up in a blaze.
Probably the most anticipated metal album this year, AT THE GATES' "At War With Reality" will turn into one of 2014's genre events, and not just because it's been nineteen years coming. Cited by more bands (largely from the metalcore and melodic death sanctions) as a primary influence, the Gothenbur...