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Circle July on your calendar for the release of the new Fates Warning album 'Theories of Flight.'

If you require a healthy dose of prog rock to start your day, well Fates Warning are here to administer it in the form of 'Firefly,' a new track from 'Darkness in a Different Light,' out Oct. 1 through Inside Out Music.

Prog metal pioneers Fates Warning are (finally) back with a new album and an accompanying tour. The forward-thinking New England band hasn't released a new studio album in just under a decade, so it's high time that they've returned with a full platter of new tunes.

With the exception of Black Sabbath, early heavy metal was built upon a foundation of two-guitar bands. Whether it was the sturdy rhythm/lead axis of Scorpions' Rudolf Schenker and Uli Jon Roth or Judas Priest's legendary K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton team, metal with two guitars is usually…

Dark Day Sunday, a thrashy new band featuring Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner manning the kit and guitarist Frank Aresti, late of prog giants Fates Warning, have teamed up with Noisecreep to premiere the lyric video for "HalfWay to GodZ...

The progressive metal community had its prayers answered earlier this year when it was officially announced that guitarist extraordinaire Jim Matheos and vocal wizard John Arch would be teaming up on an album of new material under the Arch / Matheos banner...

After Armored Saint released 2000's 'Revelation,' bassist Joey Vera kind of slipped out of the Armor-plated spotlight, but he remained busier than ever. "You might not have seen my face as much, but I definitely never went away. I've actually been busier than ever,&q…

Fates Warning has been on top of the progressive metal heap for over 3 decades. Formed in Connecticut in 1983, the band has had its share of member changes, but the quality of their forward-thinking songwriting has never waned. Their early material found Fates fronted by John Arch, a singer who love…

It seems they don't call Unearth bassist John 'Slo' Maggard 'Slo' for nothing. The cardinal rule of 'Your iPod is Showing' is no cheating. Guilty pleasures and fluke embarrassments are just as revealing to us as cult favorites and credibility markers...

Redemption vocalist Ray Alder, who also fronts Fates Warning, is based in Los Angeles, a city with a reputation for being jaded and fast-moving. Yet on the band's third album, 'Snowfall on Judgment Day,' the singer reflects on plenty of universal human situations, like love, longing a…