everything was said. This is evident in the Gloria song "Save the Past". Fans and reviewers took Gloria very controversially. After the release Disillusion played European-wide concerts, although this time the band did not play a cohesive tour but played several individual shows as headliners. Post Gloria and hiatus On December 8, 2009, Andy Schmidt announced that the band had been separated from guitarist Rajk Barthel. At the end of 2010, Sebastian Hupfer joined the band as the new guitar player. In 2011 some shows were played. This was followed by a hiatus, which Andy Schmidt explained with private challenges of the individual band members. Alea: Comeback In 2015 a fan asked the band to play an exclusive concert in Vienna. After Matthias Becker was no longer available because of his band SAFI, the French bassist Djon joined the band. Until then he played in a local project called echo.mensch together with Sebastian Hupfer. On May 29, 2015 Disillusion played Back to Times of Splendor for the first time in its entirety in Vienna. There were further shows in Germany and a final comeback concert in the sold-out Werk 2 in Leipzig on December 4, 2015. The new ten minute single Alea was presented live for the first time. In April 2016, Ben Haugg was officially introduced as a new bass player, as Djon had to return to France due to private obligations. On October 7, 2016 Alea was released digitally and as a CD via Kick the Flame Publishing (the publisher of the former guitarist Rajk Bartel). There followed a mini-tour at the end of the year through Germany and Austria. Third album - The Liberation In March 2017 Disillusion announced that they would begin writing a third album. To aide with the writing process, Andy Schmidt isolated himself to a small cabin in the woods somewhere in the Czech Republic for 3 weeks to work undisturbed on new songs. Simultaneously the band asked for fan support via Patreon to finance the production. The first goal - support for Andy - was reached within two days. The band then announced to complete the third album within 12 months, but later extended that deadline to another year as the band did not want to feel rushed to provide their fans with an inadequate and incomplete experience. During this time, the band announced another line-up change. This time, bass player, Ben