Night on Bröcken [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks]

Fates Warning | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B00006IT56
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,142 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 24-SEP-2002

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Debut!!!, August 12, 2010

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Javier Santiago "Metal Thrashin Mad!!!" (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night on Bröcken (Audio CD)

This is a great straight forward metal album. It rocks all the way from start to finish. I'm a huge Fates Warning fan. They don't have anything that is considered weak at all. Turn it up and bang your head!!!!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still developing, but wonderfully metal, December 21, 2007

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Matthew Schwarz (Bridgewater, nj United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night on Bröcken (Audio CD)

3.5 stars, really, but I didn't want to shortchange the boys. This album isn't a work of a band at their peak yet - John Arch still needed some development as a singer, and it is somewhat derivative of Iron Maiden. Yet, the guitar is just so METAL that it doesn't matter (kind of reminds me of the first Iced Earth in that respect). John Arch's singing would improve significantly over the next two albums, and his unusual phrasing and excellent lyric-writing would make him (in my opinion) one of the stand-out singers of metal. Sadly, after 3 albums with Fates Warning he would disappear from the musical world until his fantastic recent solo CD "A Twist of Fate" (with Jim Matheos, the main songwriter/guitarist of Fates Warning).
So, I would recommend the more progressive, accomplished, and original "Spectre Within" and "Awaken the Guardian" to start out, but this is certainly a nice piece of classic 80's underground metal for those who are wondering if there's anything other than Iron Maiden (and some Judas Priest & Scorpions) that put out metal in the 80's that wasn't pop/hair or thrash (although Fates does have a somewhat thrashy side to them at times). I think Mercyful Fate/King Diamond is also good in that direction.

3.0 out of 5 stars Fates' Straightforward Debut, May 5, 2010

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Peter (San Francisco, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night on Bröcken (Audio CD)

Just like the eponymous debut by Rush- a band whose evolution from hard rock to progressive metal and then to progressive fusion rock largely paralleled Fates Warning's subsequent evolution- Fates' first release is a straightforward metal album evincing little of the adventurous musical brilliance which would subsequently follow. As the group's only conventional work, its chief interest lies less on its own intrinsic merits than when contrasted against its later output to underscore what tremendous progress the band has made over the years. With John Arch's then unabashedly Bruce Dickinson-esque vocals and mythology-tinged lyrics, it was little surprise that Fates Warning was initially perceived in the metal community as an Iron Maiden clone, albeit with a rawer and heavier edge more akin to Maiden's exceptional but unpolished debut. Overall, the songs are competent, aggressive, but unremarkable, with the notable exception of "Damnation" which, with its haunting acoustic intro abruptly exploding into majestic pummeling riffs, stands head and shoulders above the other tracks (the probable reason why it continued to be performed live by the band well after other Arch-era songs had been dropped from the setlist) and anticipates the epic scope and grandeur which would begin to flower with The Spectre Within. As with the first four Fates albums, Night on Brocken greatly benefits from the digital remaster producing a crisper, sharper production, although the harmony guitar breaks and solos still sound a little thin.