Fun Fact: 'Parallels' was produced (recording/mixing) by Terry Brown (British Record Producer). Deep Purple are an excellent example of the connection between heavy metal and progressive rock. The band’s first three albums followed a Vanilla Fudge approach of combining a loud heavy rock guitar playing style with plenty of glorious leads with a Hammond organ (whose player, Jon Lord, was also classically trained and went on to compose several classical-type albums) and rearranging popular songs into more extravagant pieces. Furthering the connection between prog and metal, we see other British bands like T.2. and High Tide setting fine examples of early heavy metal while at the same time writing expanded and technically complex compositions, with T.2. leaning more to the jazz side and High Tide, featuring a lead violinist and including pseudo-Baroque passages, being more of the classically inspired. Necromandus were also a band that solidly straddled the line between heavy metal and progressive rock. By the time the New Wave of British Heavy Metal broke loose, several artists delivered heavy metal with prog propensity. One of the best examples is Iron Maiden’s debut album. Founding member bassist Steve Harris admits that prog rock had been his first love, and some of the songs on the debut album include expanded instrumental parts featuring tempo and time signature changes, rhythm changes, and a sense of melody. The later half of the 90's was spent exploring more variety, dipping into hard rock, heavy psych, and heavy prog, with traces of folk.🔥 🇬🇧
FW can 'upgrade the software without damaging the hardware'. lol. A underrated metal record "Parallels" (1991). The debut aesthetic experimental prog-phase euphoria era! FW's early records such as "The Spectre Within" (1985) and "Awaken The Guardian" (1986) express FW's developmental proliferating progressive tendencies; "No Exit" (1988), with "The Ivory Gates Of Dreams" taking up the entire second-side, is an even more conspicuous process. All tracks are entirely written by Jim Matheos (guitarist). The second track "Life In Still Water", features James LaBrie (guest vocalist). The original record "Parallels", (1991) was released as a "Originals Series" CD/LP reissue (2018).
First time I've ever seen anyone react to fates warning this is a really good albumn
Finally another Fates Warning reaction, they are pretty rare on YT.
Glad to see you getting some Fates. I love this band.If you ever get the opportunity to see them live,do it.
Great East coast USA band out of Connecticut. Parallels was a popular album for them. I remember hearing "Eye to Eye" quite a lot around that time.
been waiting for someone to react to this album
Fun Fact: 'Parallels' was produced (recording/mixing) by Terry Brown (British Record Producer).
Deep Purple are an excellent example of the connection between heavy metal and progressive rock. The band’s first three albums followed a Vanilla Fudge approach of combining a loud heavy rock guitar playing style with plenty of glorious leads with a Hammond organ (whose player, Jon Lord, was also classically trained and went on to compose several classical-type albums) and rearranging popular songs into more extravagant pieces. Furthering the connection between prog and metal, we see other British bands like T.2. and High Tide setting fine examples of early heavy metal while at the same time writing expanded and technically complex compositions, with T.2. leaning more to the jazz side and High Tide, featuring a lead violinist and including pseudo-Baroque passages, being more of the classically inspired. Necromandus were also a band that solidly straddled the line between heavy metal and progressive rock. By the time the New Wave of British Heavy Metal broke loose, several artists delivered heavy metal with prog propensity. One of the best examples is Iron Maiden’s debut album. Founding member bassist Steve Harris admits that prog rock had been his first love, and some of the songs on the debut album include expanded instrumental parts featuring tempo and time signature changes, rhythm changes, and a sense of melody. The later half of the 90's was spent exploring more variety, dipping into hard rock, heavy psych, and heavy prog, with traces of folk.🔥 🇬🇧
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FW can 'upgrade the software without damaging the hardware'. lol. A underrated metal record "Parallels" (1991). The debut aesthetic experimental prog-phase euphoria era! FW's early records such as "The Spectre Within" (1985) and "Awaken The Guardian" (1986) express FW's developmental proliferating progressive tendencies; "No Exit" (1988), with "The Ivory Gates Of Dreams" taking up the entire second-side, is an even more conspicuous process. All tracks are entirely written by Jim Matheos (guitarist). The second track "Life In Still Water", features James LaBrie (guest vocalist). The original record "Parallels", (1991) was released as a "Originals Series" CD/LP reissue (2018).
Ive always compared them to dreamtheater