Parallels is the sixth album by progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Fates Warning

Fates Warning

Fates Warning is an American progressive metal band, formed in 1982 by vocalist John Arch, guitarists Jim Matheos and Victor Arduini, bassist Joe DiBiase, and drummer Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut. Fates Warning has experienced numerous line-up changes...

, released in 1991. It has sold over 150,000 copies due to the success of the singles "Eye to Eye", "Point of View", and "We Only Say Goodbye". On March 16, 2010 Metal Blade Records released a special edition of Parallels. The special edition included remastered audio of the original album, live and demo tracks, and a DVD.

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Jim Matheos.

1. "Leave the Past Behind" - 6:13
2. "Life in Still Water" - 5:44
3. "Eye to Eye" - 4:05
4. "The Eleventh Hour" - 8:11
5. "Point of View" - 5:07
6. "We Only Say Goodbye" - 4:55
7. "Don't Follow Me" - 4:42
8. "The Road Goes on Forever" - 6:28

2010 deluxe edition bonus tracks

Disc 2

1. "Leave the Past Behind" [Live] - 4:39
2. "Don't Follow Me" [Live] - 5:19
3. "The Eleventh Hour" [Live] - 8:09
4. "Point of View" [Live] - 4:20
5. "Eye to Eye" [Live] - 4:06
6. "Nothing Left to Say" [Live] - 7:59
7. "Quietus" [Live] - 4:00
8. "Through Different Eyes" [Live] - 4:39
9. "Leave the Past Behind" [Demo Version] - 5:50
10. "Eye to Eye" [Demo Version] - 4:06
11. "The Eleventh Hour" [Demo Version] - 7:39
12. "Point of View" [Demo Version] - 4:50
13. "Don't Follow Me" [Demo Version] - 4:17
14. "The Road Goes on Forever" [Demo Version] - 5:43

• Tracks 1-8 recorded at the Palace Theater in Hollywood, California on January 23, 1992.

DVD

1. "Leave the Past Behind"
2. "Static Acts"
3. "Don't Follow Me"
4. "Part of the Machine"
5. "The Eleventh Hour"
6. "Point of View"
7. "Silent Cries"
8. "Life in Still Water"
9. "Eye to Eye"
10. "Nothing Left to Say"
11. "Quietus"
12. "Damnation/In a Word"
13. "Through Different Eyes"

• Filmed live in concert in New Haven, Connecticut on February 13, 1992.
• Features current interviews with all band members as well as acclaimed producer Terry Brown
  Terry Brown (record producer)
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   and Metal Blade Records CEO Brian Slagel
  Brian Slagel
  Brian Slagel is the owner and founder of Metal Blade Records. Slagel is known for giving Metallica their first break in 1982, with an appearance on Metal Massacre, a compilation album on Metal Blade, and has since released seminal albums by Slayer, Mercyful Fate, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning,...
  
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• Rare and exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from the 1992 U.S. tour.
• Includes music videos for "Eye to Eye" and "Point of View."

Personnel

• Ray Alder
  Ray Alder
  Ray Alder has been the lead vocalist of the progressive metal band Fates Warning since their 1988 release No Exit. He has released two albums Engine in 1999 and Superholic in 2002 with Engine....
  
   - Vocals
• Jim Matheos
  Jim Matheos
  Jim Matheos , is the American guitarist and primary songwriter for the progressive metal band Fates Warning. As of bassist Joe DiBiase's departure in 1996, he is the band's only permanent member...
  
   - Guitars
• Frank Aresti - Guitars
• Joe DiBiase - Bass
• Mark Zonder
  Mark Zonder
  Mark Zonder is the drummer of American heavy-metal band Warlord. When the band was in a hiatus, he joined Fates Warning. His artistic name in Warlord is "Thunder Child"...
  
   - Drums and percussion

Trivia

• James LaBrie
  James LaBrie
  Kevin James LaBrie is a Canadian vocalist who is best known as the lead singer of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Early life:...
  
  , the lead singer for Dream Theater
  Dream Theater
  Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
  
  , is a guest artist on "Life in Still Water."
• In the liner notes the band thanks "Dream Theatre". Dream Theater, who find this common misspelling annoying, jokingly thank "Fatez Warning" in the liner notes for their album Images and Words
  Images and Words
  Images and Words is currently ranked #2 on Digital Dream Door's list of the top 100 progressive metal albums of all time. Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes the album at number 8, just after Fear Factory's Demanufacture and before Sepultura's Roots, in his classification of the best metal albums...
  
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