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Obituaries that had been written can now be filed, shredded and destroyed, the king may have seemed to breathe a final terminal breath, outdone by seeing double at the last but Queensryche lives on. In some bizarre way there are now two Queensryches fighting for the crown as if stuck in some York/Lancaster melodrama for the nation of England. Geoff Tate, the former vocalist of the band Queensryche, now with his own band…Queensryche in one corner and the carriers of the flame with Todd La Torre at the helm ready to storm battlements and carry this new rejuvenated band forward. There really can be only one winner, the King is dead but Queensryche will survive.