It is right when he woke up (as he admitted), at 9am (at his home in Los Angeles), that Ray Alder, Fates Warning’s singer, took his telephone to call us. Probably not entirely woken up yet, he still willingly put up with our question/answer game with sincerity and certain composure. And there were loads of topics to tackle! It had been nine years since Fates Warning released an album before Darkness In A Different Light saw the light earlier this year. An explanation was needed, and Alder didn’t hesitate to “make amends,” as he says, and admit the mistake committed by the band members when they all decided to go their separate ways with diverse side projects. This won’t happen again, he insists, assessing how much Fates Warning means to them: “This is our career, this is our life. We’ve been doing this for twenty five years and we shouldn’t not care”.
Over these past nine years, many things may have changed, which brought up many topics to explore with the singer; may this be about the comeback of guitarist Frank Aresti, or Bobby Jarzombeck joining the band on drums to replace Mark Zonder, their departure from Metal Blade – the label which originally signed them – to join Inside Out, etc. Even the album in itself represents a chosen direction, that of “getting back to their roots” and “being back as a rock band.”
As we were speaking, Ray Alder was therefore lucid regarding their mistakes, the hurdles they faced and even the reality of being a musician who needs to pay his bills at the end of the month. But we also talked to a man who definitely aims towards the future with Fates Warning.
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