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Title: 0 stars if I could
Review: This is total garbage. Perhaps the 5 star reviews of this release are by people who never appreciated what this band could have been. It's hard to believe that this is the same band that put out Awaken the Guardian over a decade ago. While they used to sound like thunder, they're nothing more than a light spring rain now. In undertaking their path towards a more technical and progressive approach to songwriting, they've also embraced the realms of boring and depressing music. Gone is the passion that once was a great band known as Fates Warning. What stands in it's place is a boringly technical and depressingly boring shell of a band. Jim Matheos should be ashamed of using the same name. He should have let Fates Warning die 14 years ago, and gone on with another moniker that would not have damaged the legacy that the great Fates Warning of old built.
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