30 septiembre 2007

475 - Fates Warning Eye to Eye 1991

With the recruitment of their new singer Ray Alder Fates Warning started moving towards a more accessible sound. At this point in their career every album had been significantly different from the last one and Parallels lives up to this legacy. The album trilogy of "No Exit", "Perfect Symmetry" and "Parallels" shows an evolution that really comes to its own here. "Parallels" is the perfect marriage of challenging, thoughtful and easily accessible music. It is catchy, yet long lasting, technical and detailed, yet not overwhelming because it keeps the melodic element in focus at all times. "Eye to Eye" opens with a small explosion and heads into a heavy riff. Ray, in a spine-chilling way, delivers the lines:

All we can really share
Is the coldness we feel
And the silent memory
Of the moment we met.

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