Tag Archives: Queensrÿche

Queensrÿche, Operation:Mindcrime (2021 Deluxe Edition). Album Review

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The artistic endeavour behind a fully immersive concept album is one that for the most part is sadly lacking from today’s required listening; even the concept album itself, aside from being practised by a few hardy souls, seems to have fallen by the wayside.

It seems to be instead, simply okay to sew together a few loose threads under a banner of tropes and ideas and place it under the banner to which so many in the past have sweated over the construction and assembly of a story which resonates, which has its own lengthy pulse sharpened, the structure of the machine whirring as the introduction, the rise and fall of the protagonist unveils a masterpiece with no illusion, only painstaking beauty at its heart.

Queensrÿche, Operation:Mindcrime (2021 Deluxe Edition). Album Review full post

(633 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Queensrÿche, Empire. (2021 Box Set). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

How do you top an epic; to be frank it is virtually impossible, not unfeasible, but practically gruelling, an act that test the fortitude of even the greatest artists of all time.

If you look at some of the great Rock and Prog bands of all time, the action of producing what is in effect a masterpiece can have serious effects on the dynamic, can lead to serios questions being asked of the long-term direction of the group. Disaffection muddies still waters, and leads to break-ups, to the closing down of communication, and to the sore eyes of jealousy being opened and the terrible urge to destroy something beautiful becomes overwhelming.

Queensrÿche, Empire. (2021 Box Set). Album Review. full post

(650 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)