Album rating: 4
Here's a fresh new idea for ya: If you no longer like melodeath, and you obviously don't since you put it in an untimely grave, maybe you should review something right up your a...lley and stop wasting everybody's time, including your own. Judging from the handful of your other metal reviews you do seem to like metal a little so leave reviewing melodeath to the professionals, who likely won't give "At War with Reality" half a point more than "A Sense of Purpose" where there is such a vast difference in creativity, freshness and execution between the two. And you can focus on reviewing something you give a rat's ass about like Godspead Ye Black Emperor or U2. "Bloodsand" is the best track on the album, I'll give you that, but, frankly, I am having a hard time believing you spun the cd more than once, if even the whole thing. Right off the bat, "Death and the Labirynth", the title cut, "The Circular Ruins", "The Head of the Hydra", "Eater of the Gods", "Upon Pillars of Dust" are all great melodic tracks, fast, yet slightly progressive, which evidently you hate. To you a metal band ought to just go insanely fast or break up, and this I just infer from your own words. What are you, 15? At the Gates created an album that sticks it up to the metalcore kids but does NOT repeat the formula of the most influential album of the mc scene. Between the tracks that are characteristic of their style they experiment with pace and mood on "Heroes and Tombs" or the closing "The Night Eternal". The songwriting and musicianship is top notch and they have the best sound of their career. They show that they still got it after all these years, unlike you who should probably think of an early retirement
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