Fates Warning announce new album ‘Long Day Good Night’

FATES WARNING have announced a new album!

Titled Long Day Good Night, the upcoming album from the American progressive metal is the follow-up to 2016’s Theories of Flight and is scheduled to be released in November this year, via Metal Blade Records.

“The styles of music we’ve written distinguish this record from the rest of our catalogue,” states vocalist Ray Alder of the upcoming album. “There are some songs with electronics and some with a nice ethereal feel, as well as some pretty straightforward grooves, at least for us. And there are also some pretty heavy songs. We tried to give the listener a host of different things to listen to, as opposed to an album where every song sounds the same.”

Guitarist Jim Matheos began writing the album in mid-2019, working closely with Alder for about a year, honing the songs, completing 13 for their 13th full-length – which un-coincidentally has a total running time of 72:22. Despite their long history of making records, Alder makes it clear that the songs take a lot of work to realise. “Like all albums, nothing comes easy. It’s quite a process to go from the idea to the actual finished song. Sometimes you think you’re done with it, then you hear something else and you have to try that. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but you at least have to try it just so you know that in the end you’ve done everything possible to make it as good as it can be. Jim and I spent practically every day for the last year writing this album. I am very happy with the outcome, and with the blend of styles. I guess I could say that this album represents all of the years that we have been together.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; Scars.

Listen to Scars here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. The Destination Onward
2. Shuttered World
3. Alone We Walk
4. Now Comes the Rain
5. The Way Home
6. Under the Sun
7. Scars
8. Begin Again
9. When Snow Falls
10. Liar
11. Glass Houses
12. The Longest Shadow of the Day
13. The Last Song

Long Day Good Night is set for release on November 6th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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