Artist : Course Of Fate

Album : Mindweaver

Release Date : 15-05-2020

Added : 17-07-2020

After demos and an EP in 2013 (’Cognizance’), the Norwegians of ‘Course Of Fate’ issue after more than 15 years of existence, their first LP 15 ’Mindweaver’. In a progressive metal alternating powerful parts and others quieter, they offer us 8 titles with accessible melodic lines which are tamed from the first listening.

After the short introduction 'There Is Someone Watching' in a heavy atmosphere in which we discover the rather dark singing of 'Eivind Gunnesen', 'The Faceless Men Part 1' sets the scene for an energetic metal with pleasant melodic lines, then, 'Endgame' proposes a progressive style with different intensities and tempos changes between metal and rock and with sections of keyboards bringing an aeration to the whole and 'Utopia' with a calm first part in a 'Floydian' atmosphere, rises little by little in power ends up exploding in the 2nd part of the title with a grandiose finale. The second part of the album scrolls through the short acoustic 'The Walls Are Closing In', the energetic and epic 'Wolves' with magnificent vocal arrangements and beautiful instrumental sections, the superb crescendo ballad 'Drifting Away' which can be reminiscent of the 'Pink-Floyd' of the 'Gilmour' years (listen to the finale and the guitar solo), the album ending with the second part of 'The Faceless Men', the longest title of the album which sums up the style of the Norwegians beautifully, modulating the intensities and tempos with an epic final.

In summary, the Norwegians of 'Course of Fate' finally show all the talent that we had glimpsed in 2013 by offering us a progressive metal album at the height of the greatest which, like good wine, improves listening after listening and which is to be advised to an audience loving an imaginative and melodic progressive metal...

Line Up / Musicians

Eivind Gunnesen (Vocal), Kenneth Henriksen (Guitar), Marcus Lorentzen (Guitar), Carl Marius Saugstad (Keybords), Daniel Nygaard (Bass), Per-Morten Bergseth (Drums)