"The Mirror's Truth" is the first single released by In Flames from their ninth album A Sense of Purpose. The disc contains the single and three songs, out of which two are previously unreleased, that didn't appear on the album. This single is available to Europe, Hot Topic, and the American iTunes Store. The cover artwork for this single was done by Alex Pardee who designed the artwork for the whole album A Sense of Purpose. Small samples of the songs posted, originally made available on an online music store, can now be found on YouTube.[1][2] The music video was shot in an abandoned power plant in Scharins, Skellefteå, Sweden, and debuted on MySpace on 18 February.[3][4] The single is one of the select songs chosen for the Madden NFL 09 video game soundtrack.[5] An earlier version of "Abnegation" is also featured on Viva la Bands, Volume 2.