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Crossing Saxon with Vicious Rumors and Millennium, Fate
is one of those bands's that can fulfill the duty to grind
out hard driving axe attack while invoking a score of fluid
melodies. But it's more than just the raise "your fist in
your air" rage or high pop prowess that is in effect on V,
it's the fact that these guys can pull it off with the heaviness
of a ballsy wall of guitars sound that possesses the ears.
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Nevertheless, the vocal style is similar to Biff Byford's,
and you can even take another Saxon comparison with some of
their post-heyday records of the eighties (ya' know, they
were good records); then add keyboard textures and you have
a record of high melodic fodder. But in the world of AOR/Melodic
Metal, most of us, like myself who have the sweet tooth for
song-oriented metal, discern the musical factors involved
with a modern day sensibility. Offering up such splendor with
the hard driving opening track "Butterfly," then launching
out more hard edged ditties such as ""Everything About You,"
and "Fate," V's crunching backdrop is certainly established.
But on the other side of things, the record does offer balladry
("Life"), dark overtones ("Heaven's Crying Too"), and sub-progressive
overtones ("Burned Child") which makes the overall vibe of
V far from redundant; they obviously know how to crank out
a plethora of different tunes, here and there. ***
Some can call this a "back in the day" record, but like
I have said before, this is the time of now, the music of
now, these are great songs, memorable and anthemic; and it's
heavy. So in that light, Fate cranks out musical grandeur
that pierces the mindset with the thick wall of Marshalls
sound, copulated with tuneful sophistication of course. ***
Tommy "Hashman" Hash
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