At war with reality

"At War With Reality unquestionably rocks with fury and passion, and that's its saving grace. What doesn't work is the album's concept-in essence, an homage to the elliptical, magic-realist short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. Basically, the concept involves shuffling around various Borges motifs-labyrinths, mirrors, mysterious cities-and making a patchwork of them. It's a shallow approach to one of literature's greatest writers, and while Lindberg should get credit for not, say, being yet another metal band singing about H. P. Lovecraft, the opportunity to rise above feels squandered".

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"The speed at which the songs are played sounds not only like they are stuck in the mud, but that the weight tethered to them is also dragging them backwards. The final result is an anemic, lackluster 52 minutes from a band that obviously was correct in calling it quits the first time".

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