#Fates Warning

[nofatclips]

Live version (April 1998) of A Pleasant Shade of Gray - Part V from the Expanded edition of A Pleasant Shade of Gray

#music #fates warning #metal #live music #progressive #progressive metal #ray alder #raymond balderrama #joey vera #joseph vera #mark zonder #jim matheos #jason keazer #bill metoyer #todd goldstein #live #Bandcamp

[phantomlordreshiram]

New Tumblr Aesthetic Idea Thingy

Progressive Metal Album Covers. They’re weird, often liminal, but so cool looking.

#aesthetic ideas #progressive metal #Prog metal #tool band #tool #dream theater #queensryche #opeth #mastodon #fates warning #meshuggah #between the buried and me #animals as leaders #symphony x #metal #rock #metal aesthetic

[mezmer]

#my art #digital art #commodore amiga #deluxe paint #fates warning

[metalcultbrigade]

Fates Warning - No Exit 23/03/1988

#metalcultbrigade #metal #heavy metal #hard rock #prog metal #progressive metal #fates warning #80's music #80's #artists on tumblr

[the-true-metal]

#fates warning #the true metal #progressive metal #power metal #Spotify

[rhythmmistress]

Time to pump some iron and listen to the music that I love!!!!

#dream theater #vanishing point #fates warning #progressive metal #prog metal

[sunseekerdeluxe]

Tunesday 43

Also heard this week:

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue Tori Amos - Under the Pink Angel Dust - Marching for Revenge Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad Armored Saint - Saints Will Conquer Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror Blood Incantation - Starspawn Borknagar - Winter Thrice David Bowie - Blackstar Candlemass - Death Thy Lover Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Chiaroscuro - Brilliant Pools of Darkness Cobra Spell - 666 Contrarian - Sage of Shekhinah Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions Dare - Sacred Ground Deftones - Gore Dokken - Back for the Attack Dokken - Return to the East Live (2016) Dream Theater - LNF: When Dream and Day Unite Demos Dwelling Below - Dwelling Below Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival Eclipse - Armageddonize Editors - In Dream FM - Indiscreet Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Giraffe Tongue Orchestra - Broken Lines Insomnium - Winter's Gate Jethro Tull - Aqualung Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance Kayo Dot - Plastic House on Base of Sky Mannequin Pussy - Romantic Mastodon - Remission Mullmuzzler - Keep It to Yourself Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us Nine Inch Nails - Not the Actual Events Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens Operation: Mindcrime - Resurrection Phantom Winter - Her Cold Materials Poets of the Fall - Clearview Queensrÿche - Condition Hüman Ra - Duality Sodomisery - Mazzaroth Sumerlands - Sumerlands Ian Fletcher Thornley - Secrets Tremonti - Cauterize Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part Two Weald and Woe - For the Good of the Realm White Lung - Paradise Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty Year of the Cobra - ...In the Shadows Below

#tunesday #home front #marillion #walking corpse #dream theater #fates warning #jorn #failure #spiritworld #rush

[mywifeleftme]

44: Fates Warning // Perfect Symmetry

Perfect Symmetry Fates Warning 1989, Metal Blade (Bandcamp)

As a teenager I almost certainly would’ve called prog metal or thrash my favourite genre of music, and I spent a lot of time listening to icily produced chops demonstrations in the vein of Fates Warning’s Perfect Symmetry (though, even as a head, I never cared much for this record in particular). I’ll pause here to play a game of Remember Some Guys.

Remember Some Guys (Prog Metal Edition)

Remember Watchtower?

Remember Anacrusis?

Remember Mekong Delta?

Remember Crimson Glory?

Remember Flotsam & Jetsam?

Remember Thought Industry?

I remember those guys! Anyway, Fates Warning at one time were considered one of the “Big Three” of ‘80s/‘90s prog metal, alongside Queensrÿche and Dream Theater, but the years have rendered them much more of a cult act (see: FW’s 26,000 Spotify listeners versus over a million each for DT and the ‘Ryche). I can think of a couple of reasons for this. Their early albums sound like straight up and down ‘80s traditional metal, if a group of guys had broken all its limbs with a set of golf clubs. The songs have huge, starry-eyed choruses, flashy solos, and some timeless riffs, but they jerk around at odd angles, thwarting the simple headbanger who just wants to gallop. As they moved through the ‘80s and ‘90s they reinvented themselves multiple times as first ur-technical Guitar Center porn (see: Perfect Symmetry), then mellow Queensrÿche-adjacent crossover hopefuls, and finally into a darker-hued sound influenced by latter-day King Crimson, Tool, and Peter Gabriel. A lot of their back catalogue is actually pretty good, but this restlessness (and leader Jim Matheos’ increasing taste for grey moods and flat melodies) soon saw them fall behind their peers in sales and influence.

Back to Perfect Symmetry. As you’ve probably gathered, I think this album sucks. Even when they were singing about giants and sorceresses, ‘80s Fates Warning never met a simple pleasure they weren’t compelled to complicate with bonkers time signature and tempo shifts. Sometimes those bait and switches and hairpin turns could be thrilling, as on the thrash-influenced numbers on No Exit, their previous album. Here though, you can practically see the band screwing up their faces (and their songs) into expressions of intense, tortured profundity. Everything fun about the band goes out the window in favour of plodding tempos, groaning pseudo-philosophy (sample: “Men of grandeur / blinding, numbing / with winsome wiles in specious styles”), and pointlessly busy playing that sounds like they arranged it using a circuit diagram. This also was not a good look for vocalist Ray Alder, who often gambles with the key when he shouldn’t.

I picked this album out of a dollar bin a few years ago out of old loyalty to the band and, given that it now fetches a decent little sum, I’m sure I’ll part with it eventually. But I’ll close with some words of praise for a band I’ve enjoyed a lot over the years: after Perfect Symmetry, Fates got this particular bug out of their system, and they never really returned to this style. Matheos in particular had a cool renaissance in the 2000s, and I’m very fond of his collaborations with Chroma Key’s Kevin Moore as OSI and his initial reunion with original Fates vocalist John Arch in 2003. Eh, in a 40-year career, they won’t all be winners right?

44/365

#fates warning #prog metal #'80s metal #metal blade records #remember some guys #vinyl record #music review #'80s music

[mymindlostmefan]

Fates Warning 1985 Spectre Within

released 15.10.1985

#fates warning

[srndpt2024]

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Such a masterpiece, and perfectly performed! I am almost in tears at the sheer beauty of this...

#louisiana #rain #new orleans #swamp #fates warning #pleasant shade #of grey #prog rock #summer #sun #boys #masterpiece #tears #beauty #Youtube

[stayallnite]

nowplaying The Sorceress by Fates Warning out of Awaken the Guardian Live

#nowplaying #fates warning #awake the guardian live

[shirokova]

It just arrived and I'm loving it 🥺💜

#personal #fates warning #I should stop compulsively buying records

[ponderingrandomthings]

From Fates Warning's 1994 album Inside Out.

I like it for the complex drumming PLUS a complex questioning of the motive behind making complex music.

Just my interpretation from some of the lyrics:

Is it fiction, is it confession? Is it a passion or just a profession? Is it performance, is it expression? Is it a passion or just an obsession? [one starts to wonder what such a difference can be]

and

A monument to complete... A monument to convey... A monument to enshrine... A monument to defeat...

Jim Matheos can write some very complex things...

--

Full Lyrics:

There's a blind desire there's a drive There's a need to leave some lasting feat Something to hold, something to keep A monument to complete

There's a written page there's a book There's a search for something to say Something to share, something to speak A monument to convey

Is it fiction, is it confession? Is it a passion or just a profession? Is it performance, is it expression? Is it a passion or just an obsession?

There's a photograph there's a frame There's a time, a moment to confine Something to save, something to see A monument to enshrine

Is it performance, is it expression? Is it a passion or just a profession? Is it fiction, is it confession? Is it a passion or just an obsession?

There's an empty room there's a blank page There's a picture left incomplete Something is lost, something remains A monument to defeat

Is it fiction, is it confession? Is it a passion or just a profession? Is it performance, is it expression? Is it a passion or just an obsession?

#mark zonder #fates warning #progressive metal #prog metal #drummer #drumming #music #Jim Matheos #Youtube

[randgugotur-6]

May 10th 1990 Fates Warning with Dead On played at Rocker's in Phoenix, AZ, USA.

How many times have you seen Fates Warning in concert?

#thisdayinmetal #fates warning #live performance #Dead on #heavy metal

[heidismagblog]

#circus magazine #circus #fates warning #ray adler #joey dibiase

[sunseekerdeluxe]

Tunesday 41

Also heard this week:

Acid Throne - Kingdom's Death Aiwass - The Falling Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law Anathema - The Crestfallen EP Angra - Aurora Consurgens The Anchoress - Confessions of a Romance Novelist The Anchoress - Confessions of a Romance Novelist: The Kitchen Sessions The Answer Lies in the Black Void - Thou Shalt Anti-Depressive Delivery - Feel. Melt. Release. Escape. Autarkh - Emergent Baroness - Purple Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory Deftones - Gore Dokken - Back for the Attack Dredg - Orph Editors - In Dream Failure - The Heart Is a Monster Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Peter Gabriel - "Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix)" Peter Gabriel - "Live and Let Live (Dark-Side Mix)" Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars The Lord & Marthe - The Eye of Destiny Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire & Ice Morne - Engraved with Pain Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us Nine Inch Nails - Not the Actual Events Opeth - Sorceress Poets of the Fall - Clearview Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream Queensrÿche - Condition Hüman Rush - Moving Pictures Thronehammer - Kingslayer Voivod - Post Society Wormhole - Almost Human The Wounded Kings - Visions in Bone XTC - 3D EP Y Kant Tori Read - Y Kant Tori Read Year of the Cobra - ...in the Shadows Below

#tunesday #peter gabriel #dream theater #mannequin pussy #closet witch #fates warning #black sabbath #mortuary drape #warcrab #judas priest