Engine

Artist: Engine
Label: Metal Blade
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 039841427226
EAN: 0039841427226
ASIN: B00001IV9E

Release Date: 1999-09-21

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Tracks:

Monster
Alone
Falling Star
Taste
I Don't Need
Teach Me
Bear Your Cross
Tree Of Life
You're Awake

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Customer Reviews:

One of the best heavy albums I own.......2006-03-06

Engine is the first solo effort from Fates Warning frontman Ray Alder and it's the first time we've ever been exposed to his excellent musical writing ability. (Since then, he's penned a handful of songs for the last two Fates Warning albums - FWX and Disconnected which were some of the best songs on those albums in my opinion.) This is the kind of album that you'll like from the first listen. It's less progressive than Fates Warning and relies heavily of creative hooks. Each song is carefully and artfully crafted and every song on the album works well together. I'm impressed with Alder's songwriting ability and hope to hear much more from him in the future. Highly recommended!

It grows like creeping ivy.......2001-06-24

That should be a compliment. I really like Fates Warning. I was happily surprised to find this sticking out of the 'E' bin. At first, it was a little less than I had wanted. Key word there: wanted. I found out through a few more spins that what I wanted should have nothing to do with the great disc that I was given. It's just a really great metal CD. Too many side projects get infected by the 'home sound' and can suffer. Engine could be just a new metal band ready to take on the road. They stand well apart from Fates and squeeze all they can from this one-shot. Heavy and moody, it works best on a rainy day when you want to brood.

Fates Warning it ain't ... good straight-up metal it is.......2000-10-21

This is a very good album ... taken for what it is: a metal album. No orchestrations, no complex time-changes, no ballads (!), no keyboards (well ... not really) -- it isn't progressive and it isn't power metal, and it isn't meant to be. The vocals are still very strong and enjoyable, though I don't think Ray's voice is on par with his more operatic Fates Warning style. The music is moody, brooding, and heavy -- bordering on visceral, but not that harsh. Years back I would have loved this album even more probably, now its aggressiveness is almost a little too much for me, but not so that I can't recognize how good it is. A solid buy for metal fans, in my opinion.

needs a little more turbocharging.......2000-08-18

this collabo between armored saint's joey vera and fates warning's ray alder rocks. all it needs is a little more turbo- charging(a second guitar player)and it will be better. why deal with mainstream trash like the boy bands and the alternaivetive (that's right: alternaivetive: those bands don't have a clue of what's going on)junk, plus the rap, r&b,and dance that are grammy winners. throw that trash in the dumpster and get yourself an engine

Firing on all cylinders.......2000-08-07

Engine as the name might suggest, is stripped-down metal taken to the barest essentials. Its not ground-breaking or earth-shattering, but its damn good and damn listenable. Gone are the constantly-shifting time signatures and complex percussive arrangements of Fates Warning. Lead vocalist Ray Alder neatly acquits himself here, Engine's at least as good and even better that _Parallels_ or _Inside_Out_, and at points its definitely on par with some of the best moments past _Perfect_Symmetry_. Its groovier, brooding, power metal, much simpler and heavier, sometimes bordering on the funk-thrash of Death Angel. The tracks "Monster", "You're Awake" and the devastating "Teach Me" are ample evidence of the Engine redlining. But there are slower moments, like "Tree of Life" and the gorgeous "Falling Star" (with some commendable textural guitar work by Mr. Bernie Versailles) that prove Engine can downshift and write a good power ballad if given free license. Sometimes the songwriting is a bit simple-minded, but in general this is really excellent and appealing stuff.

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