Perfect Symmetry was an album by progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Fates Warning

Fates Warning

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. Fates Warning has experienced numerous line-up changes...

 released in 1989. It was the first album with Mark Zonder on drums. The album has been re-released as a special edition remaster in June 2008 with a bonus disc of studio demos and a DVD featuring live performances from the 1989-90 Perfect Symmetry world tour http://www.fateswarning.info/news/. The track "Nothing Left To Say" is featured on the soundtrack to the 1991 film, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Track listing

1. "Part of the Machine" (Matheos) - 6:16
2. "Through Different Eyes" (Matheos) - 4:22
3. "Static Acts" (Aresti) - 4:28
4. "A World Apart" (Aresti) - 5:03
5. "At Fate's Hands" (Aresti/DiBiase/Matheos) - 6:59
6. "The Arena" (Aresti) - 3:19
7. "Chasing Time" (Matheos) - 3:38
8. "Nothing Left to Say" (Matheos) - 8:00

2008 Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks

Disc Two: Studio Demos

1. "Part of the Machine" - 7:03
2. "Through Different Eyes" - 4:20
3. "Static Acts" - 4:27
4. "A World Apart" - 5:38
5. "At Fate's Hands" - 6:11
6. "The Arena" - 3:52
7. "Chasing Time" - 4:06
8. "Nothing Left to Say" - 8:06
9. "Part of the Machine" - 8:03
10. "Nothing Left to Say" - 4:51

Disc Three: Live DVD

Allentown, PA December 2, 1989

1. "Fata Morgana"
2. "Part of the Machine"
3. "Silent Cries"
4. "Static Acts"
5. "Through Different Eyes"

Houston, TX April 26, 1990

1. "Fata Morgana"
2. "Static Acts"
3. "Anarchy Divine"
4. "Silent Cries"
5. "Nothing Left to Say"
6. "Quietus"
7. "Damnation"

Amsterdam, Netherlands December 16, 1989

1. "Fata Morgana"
2. "Part of the Machine"
3. "Silent Cries"
4. "The Apparition"
5. "Through Different Eyes"
6. "Nothing Left to Say"

Philadelphia, PA March 27, 1990

1. "The Arena"

New Haven, CT December 11, 1989

1. "Through Different Eyes"
2. "The Apparition"
3. "Damnation"
4. "Exodus"
5. "Drum Solo"
6. "Nothing Left to Say"
7. "The Ivory Gate of Dreams"

Promotional video: "Through Different Eyes"

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1989	The Billboard 200	141

Personnel

• Ray Alder
  Ray Alder
  Ray Alder has been the lead vocalist of the progressive metal band Fates Warning since their 1988 release No Exit. He has released two albums Engine in 1999 and Superholic in 2002 with Engine....
  
   - Lead vocals
• Frank Aresti - Guitars and backing vocals
• Joe DiBiase - Bass
• Mark Zonder
  Mark Zonder
  Mark Zonder is the drummer of American heavy-metal band Warlord. When the band was in a hiatus, he joined Fates Warning. His artistic name in Warlord is "Thunder Child"...
  
   - Acoustic and electronic drums
• Jim Matheos
  Jim Matheos
  Jim Matheos , is the American guitarist and primary songwriter for the progressive metal band Fates Warning. As of bassist Joe DiBiase's departure in 1996, he is the band's only permanent member...
  
   - Guitars
• Phil Magnotti - Engineer, Mixing
• Max Norman
  Max Norman
  Max Norman is a retired record producer and recording engineer in the 1980s and 1990s. He produced many acclaimed heavy metal releases, and was renowned for his top notch production. Max got his "big break" while he was the resident engineer at Ridge Farm Studios in London, England...
  
   - Mixing

Guest musicians

• Kevin Moore
  Kevin Moore
  For the blues singer, see Keb' Mo'.Kevin Moore is a keyboardist, vocalist and composer and founder of the Chroma Key music project. He is also a former member of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater, co-founder of the progressive rock supergroup O.S.I. and has composed film soundtracks...
  
   - Keyboards
• Faith Fraeoli - Violins