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Fates Warning - Inside Out Audio CD

A fair review of the Fates Warning "Inside Out" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fates Warning reviews here, or go back to the Fates Warning tabs.

Fates Warning Band: Fates Warning
Title: Inside Out
Rating:
Release Date: 1998-03-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Outside Looking In 2: Pale Fire 3: Strand 4: Shelter Me 5: Island in the Stream 6: Down to the Wire 7: Face the Fear 8: Inward Bound 9: Monument 10: Afterglow

Oh yes, there is life after Dream Theater
" However, I'd never heard any FW until FWX, thinking no prog/metal could possibly be anywhere near DT, so I didn't expand much beyond. I'm a DT fan since I first heard "Pull Me Under. That said, this stuff is really good, especially "Monument" which has that quality that will have me listening to it over and over for a long time. Buy this!.


A rewarding listen
While not as groundbreaking and original as "Parallels" , "Inside Out" is not the dissapointment some people have accussed it to be. Coming just after the much acclaimed "Parallels" album, "Inside Out" has gone under several comparisons with its predecessor. There are so many beautiful songs in here like "Pale Fire", the opener "Outside Looking In" the progressive delerium of "Monument" which surprisingly enough is the most well known song on this album. Sure "Inside Out" has a much more easy feeling and a sense of lightness compared to "Parallels" but I would suggest people to view it as a different album and see it as a different musical offering. As such I consider it to be a fine album and a very rewarding buy.


Solid chops and progression...
This album is strong in the realm of proressive technical style. This band once again pulls together great lryics with smooth flowing chops and full progression sound to rival your musical senses. . . gutsy rock with intraversed dynamic form and flow. . All around good song writing. This album was well comprised and produced. . . I would recomend this to anyone who says they are a fan of progressive rock!.


Prog & Metal purists stay away from this. Fans of great Rock Songwriting, do yourself a favor....
I remember it like it was yesterday. . the summer of 1994, and I was at my peak of Fates Warning worship. I knew they had just released a new CD, but hadn't picked it up yet when I read the current issue of "Metal Maniacs" Magazine where there was a review of Inside Out. . . .

The 'Metal Maniacs' Inside Out review was VERY harsh, to say the least--hurling insults mostly towards Jim and his abilites and badgering the band for their increasingly commercial sound.

I reluctantly went and bought Inside Out anyway, thinking in the back of my mind 'it's going to suck'.

When I popped that CD in; from the word 'go' it instantly became one of my all time favorite CD's by ANY band and I just rebought a brand new copy of it almost 12 years later.

Yes, compared to the previous Fates CD's, there is a noticeable and deliberate mainstream approach to the songwriting---but WHY IS THAT A BAD THING??? I'm not of the befief that bands should spend their whole careers catering towards 15 year old angry Metalheads or snooty Prog snobs.

Not only that, but Jim's songwriting is TOP NOTCH on this CD. The CD itself has a great flow from song to song also. If Inside Out would have received decent promotion, it could have competed with ANYTHING that was out in 1994. It goes beyond how heavy it is, or how technical it is. . . it's a collection of great songs. People always praise "Monument" because it's the most 'Fates Warning sounding' thing on Inside Out. . . but, I like the other tracks more--the tracks that made me go "I didn't know they had that in them".

I also think that this is Ray's finest vocal performance to date. He has power and tone for days, and even has enough control in his vocal technique to add some soulful ad libs. Good stuff.

I still get a little annoyed when I look back on that Metal Maniacs review. It's pretty clear to me that the reviewer was a fan of Awaken The Guardian/No Exit era FW and was bashing them for straying away from that sound. To make matters worse, the band members themselves (Jim and Mark in particular) eventually started bashing "Inside Out" in the press, as if they couldn't stand behind their own work. . . I found that very dissappointing.

Anyway, if you want a bunch of headbanging noise, screaming vocals and evil riffs, then this isn't for you. If you want a bunch of long songs, with a bunch of odd time signatures, instrumental interludes and guys playing a lot of notes, then this isn't for you either. . .

But, if you like good music and great, solid Rock songwriting with Progressive tendencies. . . Give Inside Out a shot.


Tough Times
Aresti and Matheos were not writing together and Matheos seemed to have needed his space. Fates Warning were slipping here.
nontheless,the spirit is not here,the drive is virtually non-existent. I hate to say it but it's one of those that I rarely pop in to my deck and when I do ,it gets me sad.

Aresti and Dibase would leave and Matheos would make the group a whole lot experimentalbut it's sad because this outfit was very capable of making so much more better music.


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