- Queensrÿche: Greatest Hits · 2000
- Operation: Mindcrime (Deluxe Edition) · 1988
- Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) · 1990
- Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) · 1990
- Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) · 1990
- Operation: Mindcrime (Deluxe Edition) · 1988
- Queensrÿche (Expanded Edition) - EP · 1983
- The Warning (Remastered) [Expanded Edition] · 1984
- Operation: Mindcrime (Bonus Track Version) · 1988
- Operation: Mindcrime (Deluxe Edition) · 1988
- Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) · 1990
- Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) · 1990
- Operation: Mindcrime (Bonus Track Version) · 1988
Essential Albums
- As the follow-up to Operation: Mindcrime, Empire is a clutch collection that put the group over the top. Where Mindcrime depended on a grand concept to carry all the tunes to their fullest potential, Empire crafts each song to stand on its own. “Silent Lucidity” was the standout single, but merely the tip of a great album. “Best I Can,” “The Thin Line” and “Jet City Woman” are a snarling, raging opening trio of hammer-down riffs from guys determined to keep metal heavy but also plenty accessible. Queenryche take Iron Maiden epics into further prog-rock territory. This 20th Anniversary Edition includes the bonus cuts, “Dirty Lil Secret” and a trippy cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Scarborough Fair.” The live tracks from London, 1990, add extra firepower to the band’s approach. This was a studio band who knew how to take it to the stage flawlessly. “Resistance” comes out firing and the intricate “Roads to Madness” and “Hand On Heart” are equally perfected. Queensryche were one of their era’s most important heavy-metal performers.
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About Queensrÿche
Emerging during the ’80s metal boom, Queensrÿche separated themselves from the pack with their progressive licks and conceptual vision—and they’re still at it, more than 30 years later. ∙ Formed in 1981, the band (originally called The Mob) had no lead singer, until they recruited vocalist Geoff Tate and became Queensrÿche, a variant of their song “Queen of the Reich.” ∙ Building momentum with albums The Warning (1984) and Rage for Order (1986), the group broke through with 1988’s Operation: Mindcrime, a Platinum-selling rock opera. ∙ In 1989, Operation: Mindcrime’s “I Don’t Believe in Love” earned a Grammy Award nomination—the first of three that the band would receive in their career. ∙ Queensrÿche reached their commercial peak with 1990’s Empire, which went to No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart and included the power ballad “Silent Lucidity.” ∙ Seeking to revisit the conceptual world of Operation: Mindcrime, the band released a sequel album in 2006, enlisting metal giant Ronnie James Dio to voice the story’s villain, Dr. X. ∙ After Tate’s departure in 2012—and a brief period when two Queensrÿche lineups were operating simultaneously—the band regrouped with former Crimson Glory frontman Todd La Torre on vocals.
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- Hard Rock