I'm really excited to hear the new At The Gates record, At War With Reality. I'll have to wait until October 28th to hear it in full, but at least today we have some pretty cover art to look at.
The artwork was designed by Costin Chioreanu. I'm surprised At The Gates decided not to include one of their famous logos, and rather just use a generic typewriter font for the text treatment. Frontman Tomas Lindberg explains the artwork thusly:
The concept of At War with Reality is based on the literary genre called ‘Magic Realism’. The main style within this genre is the notion that ‘reality’ is ever-changing, and needs to be constantly re-discovered and re-conquered. We felt that Costin’s artwork style would be the perfect visual contribution to this album, so he became the natural choice…
That's all fine and dandy but give us some new music to listen to already!
