FATES WARNING — A Pleasant Shade Of Gray (review)

FATES WARNING — A Pleasant Shade Of Gray album cover Album · 1997 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray earns points for ambition, presenting as it does a single multi-part song, but it fails to make that song compelling enough to hold my attention. In particular, I find the repetitive and tedious Part VIII so irritating that it ends up as a roadblock to my enjoyment of the piece as a whole. It's good that the band were trying to do something different - in particular, for a lot of the time the album is more sedate and sombre and less traditionally "metal" than most preceding Fates Warning work - but it isn't quite my cup of tea.
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