Michael Corvin

Sounds interesting. I enjoyed Tribe and Mindcrime II. Neither blew me away, but I did enjoy them and I'm a sucker for a concept album.

cdollaz

We'll see. It could either be the next step in their re-birth after a decent Mindcrime II, or maybe the final in their coffin if it is shitty like Tribe. Either way, I hope they do another club tour. It was great earlier this year.

Snowmaker

My Queensryche CDs gap from HITNF to Mindcrime II. Hopefully I can now continue again with new/good ones.

Holysmoker

I hope they don't make it too political. I don't have high hopes for this one. I actually liked HITNF. Though Promised Land is still my fave.

bunkaroo

For me they were done after Promised Land - their last great records. The rest are meh, OM2 included.

Michael Corvin

Audio interview with Geoff Tate on Headbangers Ball about the new album.

sade

Same here.

HardRoxx88

Ditto. HITNF was trying too hard to be grunge-esque, in my opinion.

My favorite Queensryche album? Rage For Order. The old syndicated metal radio station Z-Rock (107.3, WCZR Cleveland!!) used to play "Take Hold of the Flame" a lot, and I dug this "new" band (it was 1986, after all), so I went to the record store (remember those?) and picked up Rage. Played it until it broke, went out and bought it again. Know what? Fuck it. Gonna listen to it now.

I will give American Soldier a shot, but, I forecast a political statement with a side order of Bush indictments. Why can't mysticism and lore make its way back into metal? Just tell a story; leave politics to C-SPAN.

rychian

rychian

Roxx,
I have read countless posts from countless sites and have yet to be inspired to respond. Until now...
Several things: I forgot about Z-Rock!; Rage was waaaaaay ahead of it's time; it's time for Queensryche, Tate in particular, to put politics aside and just play. The political attacks have become personal views of the Bush admin, rather than observations of the political landscape. Somehow, it just seems silly that we should care what G. Tate thinks about G. Bush. Anyway, I worry about the contents of this album. If it is an indictment of Bush politics, I'm simply not interested. An accurate depiction of the how frightening war must be, how painful to be away from home or to lose a friend: interesting. A jaded view of "blood for oil" narrow-minded liberalism will be a big turn-off. Simply put, bring back the emotion that set this band apart. I think Tate missed the whole appeal of Mindcrime. The draw, for me, had nothing to do with politics. It was the emotional state of mind of Nikki that made the album interesting.

Michael Corvin

In ten years on this forum there are two things I have learned:

1. Any Pixar thread will eventually devolve into people posting a list of their favorites and least favorites.
2. Any thread mentioning Queensryche will devolve into "they've sucked since Promised Land" posts.

Talk about beating a dead horse.

johnbook

So true but i'll hit that horse one more time

For me it ended at Empire for great Queensryche albums, Promised Land gave me two songs i really like and thats it...

I Am I
Damaged

Agree with you HardRoxx88 "Take Hold Of The Flame" is a great tune pretty close to my favorite Queensryche song, and i will definately give "American Soldier" a listen who knows we may love it, alot of my favorite 80's hard rock bands have impressed me lately for example...

Winger - IV
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
Scorpions - "Unbreakable" and "Humanity Hour 1"
Tesla - "Into The Now" and "Forever More"

bunkaroo

Well I'll tell you what, I never voiced my opinion about QR until they did OM2. HITNF was Ok but not nearly as good as what came before. Q2K was weak, but I wanted to see them pull themselves together. Tribe showed they might have something left.

Then they lost all my respect for them when they did that rehash crap with OM2. It just felt like a cheap ploy to cash in on the predecessor's success. Then we get a covers album and now ANOTHER concept record. I used to love QR for being a groundbreaking band which tried something different each record. Now they're just stuck in a rut. Oh well, I guess nothing lasts forever. I of course will hear this new one, but I am not expecting anything that sounds different from OM2.

Now serving horse steaks.

Michael Corvin

Like OMII, you can pre-order at queensryche.com and get an autographed poster with your order. $18.98 + shipping. I'm passing on this one, but I think my Mindcrime 2 order came to about $23 total.

MovieExchange

Good god, stop the whining of "oh noes, it might be a mean liberal album." You know what? It's probably going to contain some criticism of the Bush administration. I'm sure - no, I know - that through the eyes of many a soldier, it was a bad war that saw our troops sent into a bad situation with next to planning and very little support in the way of manpower and materials.

News flash - you can criticize Bush and not be a liberal.

Anyhow...

HITNF is the last release I liked all the way through. I think the loss of Chris DeGarmo hurts the band more than they want to admit. Q2K was godawful except for maybe Burning Man. Tribe was just plain horrid. Mindcrime 2 was OK... but there was nothing on it to make me go "man, I just have to throw that one back into my CD player again!"

The greatest hits album... eh. I can make a better one. And I can make it with MP3 tracks to give me a longer play list. The cover album never thrilled me. Too many songs that I really didn't care about.

The Cow

I'm a big Queensryche fan, but I'm not liking the 2 new songs from American Soldier that are having some radio play ("If I Were King" and "Unafraid")

Way too much overtalk soldier voices. I fear the whole album is going to be this way.

cdollaz

I just listened to "If I Were King" and it pretty much sucks. So boring. That song isn't gonna convince any of the fans they've lost over the last few albums to come back to the fold.

The Cow

I'm with you on the boring. It just doesn't go anywhere. And "Unafraid" is just as bad.

Back to 'Walk in the Shadows" for me, when they were good. Very disappointed in the first 2 songs out from the new one.

They sorely miss Chris DeGarmo's influence and style. (well I do anyway)

Spiritinthesky

I read this is released in April.

Michael Corvin

3/31

bunkaroo

Finally was able to hear If I Were King. Not feeling it at all.

Not sure if I'll even buy this now.

cdollaz

I'm ready for a leak. There is no way I buy this one without hearing it first.

toomqr1

Agree. Geoff Tate is so disillusioned with people thinking that his polictics matter. i for one don't want to hear your political views moron, just sing and try for God's sake to put out at least something decent musically. Bush is not in office anymore potato head, get over it. Soldiers fight and die for this country to give you the right to do what you do and live free. If it's about oil, then sing about how liberals won't let us use our own resources that would eliminate the need for "oil" from the Middle East. The other guys in this band have to be tired of this crap. Mindcrime was like this poster said, a great story, the politics had nothing to do with the great atmosphere and completeness of the record. You want to talk about people who don't support the military Geoff? How about John Murtha, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin and The Messiah himself. Look up any of the things they have said over the last 8 years about our military. The ignorance of your views is so old. You may actually put out a decent CD if you get past the anger you have for anything American, conservative and capitalist(i recall that during the 80's and early 90's you had great prosperity) I respect the soldier perspective and whatever honoring this may do for them, but if it is filled with Bush bashing(not that I think he was a great President, but he did keep us safe after 9/11), i don't want to hear it. I'm not optimistic though. Promised Land was the last great QR record, everything else has been sporadic, weak and pompous-filled with GT political physco-babble. Not to mention that he has issues with metal in general. Another socialist ass living in America. He wants us to be capitalists and buy his record, but believe in his socialist views. Go hang out with Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, etc. Rest of QR, kick him out, bring back Degarmo and find a guy who can still sing and doesn't care about politics. By the way Geoff, are you angry that Degarmo flies planes? He's contributing to global warming. Liberalism generates the exact opposite of it's stated intent!

jdodd

Agreed, but not just for Geoff Tate.

Steve156

From the 7 songs I have heard,the political BS is not on this cd.(finally)
The more I listen the more I hear this as a PL era disc.But I haven't heard all the songs yet,just 7.