Just announced on their Facebook page.

Description
U.S. Progressive Metal pioneers FATES WARNING have announced a worldwide release date of July 1st, 2016 for their much anticipated 12th studio album via InsideOutMusic.

FATES WARNING’s new album is entitled “Theories Of Flight” and comes packaged with unique artwork (which can be seen above!) created by Michigan artist Graceann Warn.

FATES WARNING guitarist and main composer Jim Matheos comments about the title and the artwork for the “Theories Of Flight” album as follows: “The working title for the album was “The Ghosts Of Home”’ and the song with that name was first called “Home Again”. When I started searching for artwork I came across the piece that’s now the cover and it was called “Theories Of Flight”. In fact, the title you see on the cover is part of the original art, not something we added. There’s a loose theme running through a lot of the lyrics, and this developed organically and separately, where Ray and I are often writing about various uprooting, escapes….flights. So I was immediately drawn to that phrase as being a better description of what some of the songs are about.”

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. From The Rooftops (06:52)
2. Seven Stars (05:33)
3. SOS (04:34)
4. The Light And Shade Of Things (10:14)
5. White Flag (05:20)
6. Like Stars Our Eyes Have Seen (05:13)
7. The Ghosts Of Home (10:31)
8. Theories of Flight (04:00)

[CD2: Acoustic Bonus Disc]
1. Firefly (03:15, previously unreleased)
2. Seven Stars (04:25, previously unreleased)
3. Another Perfect Day (03:25, previously unreleased)
4. Pray Your Gods (03:45, Toad The Wet Sprocket cover version)
5. Adela (02:25, Joaquin Rodrigo cover version)
6. Rain (04:03, Uriah Heep cover version)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F7FOJ22/?tag=imwan-20

Good news. Big fan of these guys.

I was hoping for another Arch/Matheos album first but am still excited over this one. Pretty much everything that Jim Matheos has done lately has been excellent, from Fates Warning to Arch/Matheos to OSI.

I tried to like the Arch/Matheos disc, but his voice grates on me for some reason. Just can't listen to it or the early Fates stuff.

Maybe they'll tape/film the upcoming Awaken the Guardian anniversary shows though (all original members are returning for those shows).

Amazon has a blank listing for a two-disc set which might or might not be the media book version, so pre-order with caution:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F7FOJ22/?tag=imwan-20

Teaser for the new album with clips from each song:

Bump: I've added a larger cover image to the first post.

And the preorder page on Amazon is now active, with the normal and limited edition discs listed.

Not sure why my original post is locked, but InsideOut also has the album up for preorder and it's currently cheaper than Amazon.

http://www.insideoutmusicshop.com/item/40595

Lyric video for a new song - "From The Rooftops"

Another song - "White Flag"



For those that are interested, during the solo section, the guy with the long hair is touring guitarist Mike Abdow and the guy with the short hair is original member Frank Aresti.

Jim Matheos continues to amaze. This is an incredible album.



My favorite from the album. Prog-masterpiece! The section that starts at 7:00 is amazing.

Yeah, I'm hoping for another tour once Joey is done touring with Armored Saint.