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Queensryche's next album offers social commentary
08/01/2007 2:52 AM, Reuters
Christa Titus
Progressive metal band Queensryche
has begun working on the follow-up to last year's "Operation:
Mindcrime II" in Seattle.
Frontman Geoff Tate tells Billboard.com he hopes the
as-yet-untitled set will arrive next summer or fall.
"We're just into the first couple months of writing for it,
and it's a theme record. It's based on modern American life,
sort of a social commentary," Tate says. "Musically it's very
adventurous for us. It's something we haven't done before. It's
going to take a lot of people by surprise, and at the same time
I think they're going to be very intrigued by the concept of
it."
The band, which hits the road in September with Heaven And
Hell and Alice Cooper, will release "Sign of the Times," its
second greatest-hits collection on EMI, prior to the tour.
Among hits like "Walk in the Shadows" and "Silent Lucidity,"
the two-disc set contains rarities like songs from Myth, the
band Tate sang in before joining Queensryche, that later became
demos for early QR tunes like "No Sanctuary."
"Sign of the Times" also includes a recent interview with
Tate and former Queensryche guitarist Chris DeGarmo. In it Tate
says he and DeGarmo hang out often and write together, but the
musical work they've done is on a "casual" basis.
Meanwhile, Queensryche is enjoying the success of its
double-CD/DVD package "Mindcrime at the Moore." The live set
captures the band playing both "Mindcrime" albums in their
entirety on tour last year. Released July 3, the title debuted
at a career-best No. 1 on Billboard's Top Music DVD chart.
Reuters/Billboard
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