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Silent Lucidity 📳
#Queensrÿche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw

After listening to the Operation Mindcrime records, I wanted to spin this other concept album. It has only been released on CD.

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: American Soldier (2006)
Release: Original pressing
Region: US
Label: Rhino Records – R2 517967

#nowspinning #cd #queensryche #geofftate

These newer Queensrÿche albums are very good! This is their latest album and it closes with a cover of Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell".

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: Digital Noise Alliance (2022)
Release: Original pressing
Region: US
Label: Century Media – 19658737041

#nowspinning #vinyl #queensryche

I'm continuing my playthrough of Queensrÿche's back catalog with the second Operation: Mindcrime album.

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: Operation: Mindcrime II (2006)
Release: Original pressing
Region: US
Label: Rhino Records (2) – R1 73306

#nowspinning #vinyl #queensryche #geofftate

Wenn man mitten in der Arbeitswoche nach #Frankfurt zu einem Gig fährt, dann ist klar: Es muss etwas Besonderes sein. #Queensrÿche sind etwas Besonderes, und unterstreichen das auch weiterhin in ihrem Karriere-Spätsommer.

https://www.gig-blog.net/2026/06/22/queensryche-rivers-of-nihil-17-06-2026-batschkapp-frankfurt/

#Konzert #Konzertbericht #Concert #LiveMusic #LiveMusik #Konzertfotografie #ConcertPhotography #RiversOfNihil #Batschkapp #Metal #ProgressiveMetal

I found the CD version of this album to be noticeably lacking in bass. Apparently, it's a common complaint, and the audiophiles recommend the vinyl edition featuring the 2021 remaster. Well, I guess I got lucky!

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: Operation: Mindcrime (1988)
Release: 2022 vinyl reissue (2021 remaster)
Region: USA & Canada
Label: Capitol Records – 7714039

#nowspinning #vinyl #queensryche #geofftate

Silent Lucidity 🤫
#Queensrÿche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw

I'm enjoying more Geoff Tate-era Queensrÿche today. This was their first full-length album. A classic.

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: The Warning (1984)
Release: 2026 reissue
Region: US
Label: Capitol Records – 00199957387453

#nowspinning #vinyl #queensryche #progressivemetal #geofftate

New post: Classic Cover: Kurt Deimer ft. Geoff Tate – “Silent Lucidity” (original by Queensrÿche) https://moshville.co.uk/feature/classic-covers/2026/06/classic-cover-kurt-deimer-ft-geoff-tate-silent-lucidity-original-by-queensryche/ #GeoffTate #KurtDeimer #Queensrÿche

The latest from Geoff Tate, part three of Operation Mindcrime.

Artist: Geoff Tate
Album: Operation: Mindcrime III (2026)
Release: Original pressing
Region: US
Label: n/a (independently released)

#nowspinning #vinyl #queensryche #progressivemetal #geofftate

#metal #Frankfurt #queensryche

#metal #Frankfurt #queensryche

Grüße aus der Batschkapp! #metal #Frankfurt #queensryche

This is an original Japanese pressing of Queensrÿche's debut EP. Although the EP was originally released in 1982, this Japanese edition was issued in 1983. It's in near-mint condition and sounds amazing. An excellent start for a great band.

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: Queensrÿche EP (1982)
Release: Original 1983 Japanese pressing
Region: Japan
Label: EMI – EYS-41012

#nowspinning #vinyl #queensryche #progressivemetal

Silent Lucidity 🎬
#Queensrÿche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ltMUZpMwg

I really can't decide which of the early Geoff Tate-era Queensrÿche albums I like best—they're all great. While the new lineup is also excellent, this one has the added advantage of nostalgia.

Artist: Queensrÿche
Album: Rage for Order (1986)
Release: 2026 reissue
Region: US
Label: Capitol Records – 72435-81069-2-3

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https://youtu.be/PuyI2_wA22c?si=3NBQ0OStJBJXURLT

La meva #CançóDelDia per al dilluns 1 de juny és aquesta dels #QUEENSRŸCHE #HeavyMetal #ProgMetal #Bellevue 🤫!

Crimson Glory hold a special place in my own personal Metal Hall o’ Fame. I was a huge fan of their 1986 debut with its classic Queensrÿche-style and larger-than-life energy. Midnight immediately became one of my favorite vocalists, and I was dazzled by the way the band took classic metal idioms and made them feel so grand and elegant. 1988s Transcendence took their sound even further, getting proggier, heavier, and more epic in scope. This is the album that essentially invented the progpower genre. At that point in time, the band seemed poised to achieve amazing things and conquer the metaverse. Then they dropped Strange and Beautiful in 1991, and the wheels came off the Glory cart hard. To call that album a dumpster fire of a sellout is an understatement, and it still makes me wonder what the holy fuck the band was thinking when they released it. It’s on par with Celtic Frost’s Cold Lake, Metallica’s St. Anger, or Krokus’ Change of Address, and it will forever live in infamy as a career killer. Unsurprisingly, the band fell apart after that, with Midnight departing for good, leaving disgruntled fans to reflect on what might have been. The band attempted a jump-start in 1999, but Astronomica was nowhere near the quality of the early albums, and the band sank back into self-inflicted oblivion. 26 years later, three of the original members are attempting a new comeback with Chasing the Hydra. The cynic in me wondered why they’d even bother. They created 2 all-time classic metal albums, and nothing they do now could come close to rivaling them. With great expectations as their eternal enemy, it’s much more likely they’d only diminish the luster of their stellar releases. Still, the naive teen in me hoped for a miraculous rebirth of the band I still love. Where does Chasing the Hydra fall between those polar opposite scenarios? As you might expect, somewhere in the middle.

Aided no doubt by a set of very low expectations, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Chasing the Hydra. Obviously, it can’t touch the classic albums with a 100-foot Poke Em Pole, but it’s effective, entertaining progpower with enough of the classic Crimson Glory sound to trigger nostalgic reminiscing. Opener “Redden the Sun” is aggressive and urgent as new vocalist, Travis Willis, shows off his impressive collection of pipes. The guitarwork from OG Ben Jackson and new axe Mark Borgmeyer is fluid and technical, and the song itself is decent, though it gets a bit scattered. The title track opens with the lead riff from Transcendence classic “Red Sharks,” which is either cool or cornball, I can’t decide. The song sounds more like something off Sanctuary’s debut than Crimson Glory, but it’s good nonetheless, although Willis overdoes it at times. The first real winner comes with “Broken Together,” which sounds enough like vintage Glory where you could imagine it appearing on the early classics. Wills sounds so close to Midnight as to be unsettling, and the whole package has that same strange power the old albums did. “Angel in My Nightmare” is a sprawling epic that plays out like a pastiche of “Lonely in Love” and “Azrael,” and it takes you on an interesting voyage through the various eras of the band (wisely excluding Strange and Beautiful). It’s a bit too long, but the goods are delivered.

“Indelible Ashes” is another success story, sounding like the love child of 80s Crimson Glory and Rage for Order era Queensrÿche. Wills moves between Midnight and Geof Tate homage vocals, and this is another cut that feels like the logical successor to the Transcendence material. “Beyond the Unknown” is another win where Wills shifts tone to sound almost exactly like Lance King, and the chorus sounds like essential Pyramaze. The only song that doesn’t really gel for me is “Armor Against Fate,” where the writing gets too herky-jerky and proggy, jettisoning transitions to skitter from idea to idea. Even then, it isn’t bad, and the chorus sticks in the head. At 47 minutes, and with most songs in the 4-5 minute frame, Chasing the Hydra ends up an easy spin with a nice ebb and flow.

A lot of the success of Chasing the Hydra comes down to the vocal magic of Travis Wills. Yes, the guy can emulate Midnight, which is no easy feat, but he doesn’t spend the entirety of the album trying to be a clone. He shifts tones and styles to suit the material and generally does a bang-up job elevating the solid-to-above-average material. Ben Jackson and new axe Mark Borgmeyer do a great job decorating each song with the right mix of burly riffage and pretty, ethereal harmonies, never drifting too far into Cheese Meadows. There’s a surprising amount of scrotal power on some of these tracks, which offsets the lighter moments.

If you ran into me at a drunken New Year’s Eve shindig last December and told me I’d be giving good reviews to Metal Church and Crimson Glory in 2026, I’d have denounced you as a fool and a charlatan. Here we are, though, and I underrated Metal Church! Chasing the Hydra is the album we should have gotten in 1991. It may be 34 years late, but better that than never. The Glory days may not be behind us after all. I hope that somewhere in the Great Beyond, Midnight is smiling.



Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: BraveWords
Websites: theofficialcrimsonglory.com | facebook.com/crimsonglory |
Releases Worldwide: April 17th, 2026