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Fountain Of Tears - FateAvantgarde means experimental or novel.Novel means new, not before seen or refreshing. And it is indeed refreshing to hear a female-fronted Metal band, that doesn’t sound like Nightwish, Evanescence or Within Temptation. Fate is Fountain of Tears second full-length studio album, following the previous self-titled release. Their music could be described as Progressive Metal and not be too far off from the truth, even though I’ve seen them been put in all kind of genres like Rock/Goth/Metal/Progressive Rock and so on. A female-fronted Progressive Metal band is something you don’t meet around the corner every day, and it makes Fountain of Tears a quite unique band. The voice of Vonnie King (R Angels) is beautiful, strong and clean (Shakira goes metal, as one of my friends said when hearing her). In some songs they have put an effect on her voice, which at times adds to the feeling of the music, but sometimes just is annoying because her voice is so great all on its own. The music in itself is also excellent; the musicians you find in this band really know what they are doing. Joe Daub (Believer) does an amazing job behind the drums, really a bit out of the ordinary. Erik Ney (Sacrament) handles the bass in a very respectable manner. If Mike DiDonato (Sacrament) does all the guitar-solos on Fate, then he is quite an exquisite guitar-player creating at least two very remarkable guitar-solos on the songs Ten and Fate. Then there’s Jeff King, which seems to be the back-bone of the band, creating that Progressive atmosphere with the keyboards, in which he succeeds completely. Where many bands succeed in creating poetry-like lyrics, Fountain of Tears succeeds in creating poetry with their lyrics. Most of the lyrics found on Fate are written by Laura King, who’s not a member of the band but shares the same surname King along with Vonnie and Jeff. The artwork is also pretty breath-taking, it’s very neat and professional. The production is as good as it gets, but it lacks that aggression that I like to hear on Metal-albums. Instead it has a production that you find on several Progressive albums, a production who let’s all the instruments and elements be heard, and it probably fits this album much better than an aggressive production would have done. One of the few things that I could complain about with this album is probably that it is a bit too even-tempered, there are not many tracks that stand out from the others. Fate is a very succeeded album in whole, it just feels so complete. Highlights on it are Corruption, the catchy kick-off track, Forever Lost, With My Fears and Ten. Bands that I am reminded of when listening to it are Shadow Gallery and Blackmore’s Night, just as a weak attempt to give you some kind of idea of what you can expect. Fate is an album that makes you want to lie back in a huge, old arm-chair and sip fine red wine. A highly recommended release. |
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| Style: Progressive Metal | |
Overall:
 
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| Year: 2007 | |
| Review by: MazzE | |
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