Awaken the Guardian

Awaken the Guardian
Studio album by Fates Warning
Released	1986 (1986)
Recorded	September–October 1986
Studio	Stagg Street, Preferred Sound (Los Angeles)
Genre	Heavy metal progressive metal
Length	47:57
Label	Metal Blade
Producer	Fates Warning, Brian Slagel
Fates Warning chronology
The Spectre Within (1985) Awaken the Guardian (1986) No Exit (1988)
Alternative cover
2005 deluxe edition

Awaken the Guardian is the third studio album by American progressive metal band Fates Warning, released in 1986 through Metal Blade Records. The album was the band and their label's first to enter the U.S. Billboard 200, reaching No. 191 and remaining on the chart for four weeks.^[1] It is also the first Fates Warning album to feature guitarist Frank Aresti and the last with original singer John Arch, who was replaced by Ray Alder on their subsequent 1988 album No Exit.