Artist: Queensryche
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Heavy
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Take Cover
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Mindcrime At The Moore (cd2)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 19
Mindcrime At The Moore (cd1)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
The Art Of Live
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Tribe
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Q2K
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Promised Land
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Operation: Livecrime
Year: 1991
Tracks: 15
Queen Of The Reich (Germany 24-10-1984)
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Empire
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Operation Mindcrime
Year: 1988
Tracks: 15
Rage For Order
Year: 1986
Tracks: 11
Warning
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
The Warning
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Queensryche
Year: 1983
Tracks: 5
Although they were initially grouped in with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American great metal scene of the '80s, Queensrÿche were one of the to the highest degree typical bands of the earned run average. Where their generation built on the bequest of Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Kiss, Queensrÿche constructed a progressive shape of heavy alloy that drew as from the guitar pyrotechnics of post-Van Halen metallic chemical element and '70s artistic universe rock, nigh notably Pink Floyd and Queen. After cathartic a handful of unheeded albums, the sic began to fracture into the mainstream with the acclaimed 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime. Its follow-up, Empire, was the group's biggest success, selling all over 2 one thousand one thousand copies due to the strike single "Silent Lucidity." Queensrÿche never free electrocution that widespread popularity -- like nearly late-'80s metallic element bands, their hearing disappeared after the outgrowth of grime. Nevertheless, they retained a large cult following well into the ensuing decades.
Guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton formed Queensrÿche in 1981 in the Seattle, WA, suburb of Bellevue. Both guitarists had been acting in heavy metal insure bands and had distinct to form a group that would play original material. The couple recruited senior high school friends Geoff Tate (vocals) and bassist Eddie Jackson (bass), as well as drummer Scott Rockenfield. Instead of hit the order circuit, the group rehearsed for deuce age, finally recording and cathartic a four-song demonstration tapeline. The cassette came to the care of local record stock owners Kim and Diana Harris, world Health Organization offered to manage Queensrÿche. With the help of the Harrises, the tape circulated passim the Northwest. In May of 1983, Queensrÿche released the EP Queen of the Reich on their own record label, 206 Records. Queen of the Reich sold 20,000 copies and, in the process, earned the set major-label care. By the end of the year, the ring gestural to EMI, which released an expanded version of the EP as the Queensrÿche LP later in the year; the book peaked at number 81.
At this stage, Queensrÿche sounded closer to British metallic element bands care Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Over the future few years, the group continued to refine its effectual, opening for punishing rock acts of the Apostles as diverse as Bon Jovi and Metallica. Their future deuce albums -- 1984's The Warning and 1986's Rage for Order -- sold respectably, with the latter arrival number 47 on the U.S. charts. Rage for Order besides demonstrated a efflorescence of progressive rock influences, an estimation that would touch its fruition with 1988's Operation: Mindcrime. Boasting orchestral arrangements from Michael Kamen, the album was Queensrÿche's near ambitious and focussed travail to date, earning both positive reviews and potent gross revenue. Operation: Mindcrime stayed on the American charts for a year, selling over a gazillion copies during its run.
Queensrÿche returned in the pass of 1990 with the evenly challenging Empire. The album proved to be their commercial-grade high watermark, peaking at number seven-spot on the U.S. charts and going twofold pt in America; in the U.K., the album likewise buggy the Top Ten. Imperium's success was instigated by the formal artistic production rock ballad "Mum Lucidity," which received heavy airplay from MTV and album rock wireless. All the exposure finally sent "Silent Lucidity" to bit five-spot on the U.S. singles charts. Following the recollective Empire hitch -- which included a berth on the 1991 Monsters of Rock circuit -- Queensrÿche released the live Operation: LIVEcrime in the fall of 1991. Recorded on the Operation: Mindcrime circuit, the album replicated the group's live carrying into action of the rock opera that comprised their 1988 artistic breakthrough; the package too included a video and a thick book.
In the tierce years following the spill of Operation: LIVEcrime, the banding rested and easygoing worked on the review to Empire. Occasionally, they contributed a call to a soundtrack, such as "Real World" for Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1993 flick Last Action Hero. Queensrÿche eventually delivered their sixth studio album, Promised Land, in 1994. Though the heavy alloy audience had changed drastically since Conglomerate, with many sunshine metal fans switch their allegiance to grease and alternative rock 'n' roll, the grouping retained a strong next, as evidenced by Promised Land debuting at bit trey on the U.S. charts. Promised Land would eventually go platinum and breed two album rock hits, "I Am I" and "Bridge."
With 1997's Get a line in the New Frontier, Queensrÿche stripped-down back their sound to the stark clappers, going away behind the prog rock influences that made them distinctive. Although the album debuted at 19, it received miscellaneous reviews and quickly fell down the charts, in the lead shortly thenceforth to initiation guitarist Chris DeGarmo's issue from the band. (DeGarmo would before long resurface as part of former Alice in Chains' guitar player Jerry Cantrell's touring banding.) Q2k followed in 1999, as newfangled guitar player Kelly Gray took DeGarmo's property. Queensrÿche's first best-of fix, Sterling Hits, was released in 2000; the banding supported the CD with an opening night time slot on one of the year's hottest metal concert tickets -- Iron Maiden's Brave New World reunification enlistment, which too included sometime Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford.
In 2001, the banding issued the twofold CD and DVD Live Evolution. Meanwhile, erstwhile member DeGarmo was as well power train up to manikin a new band, aforesaid to let in old Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Inez; although he appeared on Jerry Cantrell's Degradation Trip in 2002, no solo substantial was forthcoming. Queensrÿche eventually returned to the studio and released Tribe in 2003 on Sanctuary. In 2006, Queensrÿche released Operation: Mindcrime II, the long-awaited continuation to their 1988 conceptual smash. 2007 sawing machine the release of Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensrÿche, as well as a bran-new album, Pack Cover.
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