Fates Warning is an American progressive metal band, formed in 1982 by vocalist John Arch, guitarists Jim Matheos and Victor Arduini, bassist Joe DiBiase, and drummer Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut. and became the first album released on Metal Blade to enter that chart. Their next three albums,
No Exit (1988),
Perfect Symmetry (1989) and
Parallels (1991), were also successful; the first two peaked at No. 111 and No. 141 on the
Billboard 200 respectively. Fates Warning's most recent studio album,
Darkness in a Different Light, was released in 2013.