![]() The verse is a heavy and groovy affair with an acoustic guitar overlaid on top. The opening track opens with a frantic wasp-like guitar figure on top of a groovy guitar riff and takes the listener – in true Rush-style – through a couple of different passages before the verse kicks in. This is largely due to the return to the two-guitarists set-up, which Fates Warning exploit in a number of interesting ways on this album. But after a couple of listens, the listener will discover little details that are more reminiscent of the bands legendary early 90s output. The songs on the album are, for progressive metal standards, pretty short and relatively straightforward at first listen. Stylistically, this album falls somewhere between “Disconnected” and “FWX”, which are probably my least favorite Fates Warning albums, but in combining these albums, “Darkness in a Different Light” rises above these two albums, taking the best of both and moving it in a direction of its own. While many people consider “Sympathetic Resonance” the lost Fates Warning album or the Fates Warning album that never was, “Darkness in a Different Light” is the real comeback from these pioneers of progressive metal. Of course, we Fates Warning fans godt a massive treat when Arch/Matheos’ masterpiece debut album “Sympathetic Resonance” was released in 2011 featuring Fates Warning’s current line-up in its entirety and former Fates Warning vocalist Jon Arch in front. ![]() The first proper Fates Warning album in nearly ten years, “Darkness in a Different Light” has obviously been greatly anticipated.
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