Parallels is still my favorite so this sounds very hopeful.
This.
Me too!
I always leaned more towards Awaken the Guardian, Perfect Symmetry and A Pleasant Shade of Gray (in no particular order). However Parallels has
started to click with me lately, after about three or four years of trying to 'get' that album.
Won't lie though, I'm very excited for Theories of Flight. I have a feeling this one's gonna be something very special.
Damn. Just heard the new Fates Warning track and signed in to say it is pretty amazing.
I thought Megadeth had it in the bag for album of the year but it looks like they have some competition. Loved the guitar tone and the drums. Ray has some nice grit to his voice too.
Hope that the quality of the entire album matches this track. I was a little disappointed in their last release honestly.
I need to go back and revisit the new Megadeth album. I enjoyed my one listen to it earlier this year, but I never bothered to revisit it. However I do think Fates Warning are gonna win the Album of the Year spot for me. There's just something about the band that clicks perfectly for me.
I liked DiaDL a lot personally, but it was a little bit of a letdown compared to the Arch/Matheos album before it at first. It does grow on you with repeated listens though.
However this new track and the album samples all sound more immediately 'energized' than the stuff from DiaDL did imo. I think it's probably a benefit of the band finally getting back into a creative writing mindset, since there was that nine year gap for DiaDL, as opposed to the three year gap for ToL. DiaDL could perhaps be seen as the band turning the old car back on after so long, and ToL in turn is the car after it's gotten fixed up and fine-tuned.