Fates Warning - My First Reaction "At Fates Hands" Perfect Symmetry (react ep.777 )
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In this video Canadian Guitarist/producer Dean Wolfe reacts to Fates Warning for the first time (crazy!) and the song is called At Fates Hands from the album Perfect Symmetry (1989)
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FINALLY someone reacted to this bomb track! Fun fact, Thats Kevin Moore (OG Dream Theater and Chromakey fame) on Keys. Great react. As its been commented. This is peak prog. PS Mark Zonder is beyond incredible! Cheers!
Fates Warning has been my favorite band for about 30 years, now.
"At Fates Hands" was an interesting choice for a first exposure. It was their most experimental song on their most experimental album, adding strings to an 80's metal album, a rare feat in its time.
Hope you can explore more of their discography. They aren't loved by everybody, but they were definitely ahead of their time.
There are very definitive phases to Fates Warning's discography, usually defined by three studio albums. This is the second album with their second singer, Ray Alder, but I look at this as really the first one where he is showing his own voice. The first albums featured vocalist John Arch, and his third album, Awaken the Guardian, is considerd the pinnacle of his era. John has a unique voice and phrasing. The next album, No Exit, features the incredible and ambitious Ivory Gate of Dreams, which took up the whole second side of the album. But I always felt like Ray was trying to stay closer to John's delivery. The album after Perfect Symmetry, called Parallels is probably the peak of that run that also included the album Inside Out. A Pleasant Shade of Gray came out in 1997 and started the next phase along with Disconnected and FWX. At this point, Joey Vera of Armorer Saint was now a member and has remained so. Kevin Moore, formerly of Dream Theater was also on keyboards. APSOG is considered by many the best album of the Ray Alder era. I think these albums have more connection to Perfect Summetry. After a longer break, they came back with three more albums in the 2010s - Darkness in a Different Light, Theories of Flight, and Long Day, Good Night. The line up is basically the same on all of these albums. I love Theories of Flight, and the song Light and Shade of Things is probably the highlight. It also incorporates some post rock/post metal elements. Long Day, Good Night might be their final album. It has elements from all their previous albums and features a number of guests, such as Gavin Harrison.
Sometimes....
When I close my Eyes and listen to this Beauty...
It reminds me to Queensryche s - Silent Lucidity.
Only Michael Kamen is missed here.
Well done Fates👍
Just mind-blowing...
This is also the first album with Mark zonder on drums. He's not only very technical but he also plays with the traditional grip
Fates Warning is such an underrated band, but they’re in an underrated music genre. I think every song is good on the Parallel album. Pleasant Shade of Grey is a very good concept album. If I needed music for a sci if movie, I would probably go with a FW song. Another great song by FW I really like is “Island in the Stream” and also “Firefly.”
Glad to see this is your first exposure, I really like this one. The keyboards are actually a guest presence from Kevin Moore who was part of Dream Theater at the time. Perfect Symmetry is a really interesting album: Not quite as refined as their future discography but not as raw as their prevoius stuff. I also really like their drummer, Mark Zonder, who was with them from 88 to 07. If you want more from this album I really like the ending track, Nothing left to say; if you want more early stuff, I'd recommend Epitaph from their 1985 album Spectre Within. Mark Zonder really shines on the song One from their 00 album Disconnected (also featuring Kevin Moore). There are a lot of different directions to go with this band.
Hi zosi, nice to see you again 👋
The Eleventh Hour is a must have album! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 Ray Alder's voice sounds sooo young lol they have a lot of material. Also check out The Ivory Gate Of Dreams . It's 21.58 minutes long. 1988 I believe
This was probably peak prog for FW. If you’d like to hear their earlier more metal but still very prog catalog I’d recommend Fata Morgana off the incredible album Awaken The Guardian from 1986
Thanks for doing Fates. One of my all time favorite bands. I like a lot of the new stuff also but was originally turned on by the No Exit album. The Light and Shade of Things is a great tune. The Ghost of Home, Theories of Flight. Can’t really go wrong.
The first song I heard from them was Silent Cries, off of the No Exit album. Rays first album with them.
I would also recommend Ivory gate of Dreams, its a great 1/2 LP track. To check out Arch years, most would say something off Awaken the Guardian, but i would go one album earlier, and listen to the closer Epitaph. Its about 12 minutes, and an amazing example of early prog metal
Totally agree with Epitaph. Imo unpopular opinion John goes a little too crazy with his vocals on ATG and I prefer his singing in NoB and TSW.
@@swirvinbirds1971 ya, i love ATG, but TSW is my favourite.
fates are just the best band in all universes...
I saw you have some videos on italian prog rock, I think you should try to listen something from "Tilt" by Arti e Mestieri, especially the song "articolazioni". They can mix melody and good writing with complex parts, and they have the wildest drum parts ever created
Fates Warning - a lot like Kansas
Again I found good new music and a interesting analysis on your channel. Thank you. I like the rule: not sounding like Pop. 😀
Oh! Porcupine Tree! Nobody knew that band when this came out! The snaredrum! That’s Mark Zonder dude! One of the most original drummers in prog rock’ and very underrated! You chosed the only song composed by Frank Aresti in this album. Most of the Fates Warning material is composed by the other guitar player, whats his name? It’s a shame Aresti took off from the band, he was able to add an interesting balance to what the other guy was writing. Kevin Moore is on keyboards here, you know? Kevin Moore? The guy that was on keyboards and composition and lyrics on the first 3 Dream Theater albums? Dream Theater have always been thankful to Fates Warning for their “spiritual mentoring” (influence)…
listen to Screamer, "Target Earth" album 1988. They're just like Fates Warning.
Never a bad album. Kevin Moore on keys Dream Theater
My favorite Ray Alder (the singer here) era Fates Warning song is probably 'The Eleventh Hour' off of their next album, 1991's Parallels.
Ray Alder and the drummer here, Mark Zonder, have a new band A-Z that released a pretty good album last year. It's less metal than what you hear with Fates Warning, and also has Vivian Lalu on keys. Lalu has released several prog albums himself.
Ray Alder's solo album is coming out soon. The new single is awesome
This band has 4 sounds:
The iton maiden power metal era
Night on Broken and Awaken the guardian: 65%heavy metal, 20% power Metal, 15% progressive Metal.
Heavy and beggining of the prog era
No exit and The Spectre within: 70% Heavy Metal, 23% progressive metal and 7% power Metal.
Progressive metal era
Perfect symmetry, Parallels, Inside out, APSOG: Finest progressive metal.
The new digital progressive metal era:
Disconnected and so on
A few bands i would like to ask you if you're familiar with and im sure some you are. Magma, Captain Beefheart, King Crimson (100% you know), Can amd Faust? All late 60s and beyond
By all means go ahead and play more Kansas-it won’t touch the power of the band live. May I suggest Magnum Opus, The Wall (in fact, all of Leftoverture), Hopelessly Human, Hold On, Closet Chronicles and/or Portrait (and try to guess who they are each about, w/o looking it up)!