Review of Disconnected by Fates Warning *****

In the Key of Awesome from Start to Finish!

It took me a while to warm up to this album.  When I first heard it, admittedly, I didn’t get it.  Previously, I had thought progressive metal had to have blistering fast lead guitar work, such as in the case of King Diamond, Death, and Morbid Angel.  Fates Warning is not as heavy as those bands.  And, they don’t rely on blistering fast leads.  Yet, this music is complex, and more importantly every track is good.  In fact, I believe that Disconnected is even better than Chasing Time.

In the beginning, this kind of music would have definitely been considered to be heavy metal, but as time has progressed, more and more, this kind of sound can simply be termed progressive rock.  That is, this album was released right on the cusp of when loud rock, or nu metal was starting to gain in popularity, and since that changed the face of music so much, bands that would have normally been considered to be metal where starting to be considered as rock.