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The Hard-Rock collective, Queensrÿche were formed in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington USA, in 1981 when all the band members were in their late teens; singer + songwriter Geoff Tate, guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, bassist Eddie Jackson and drummer Scott Rockenfield started gigging around the local bar circuit and recorded a demo-tape of 4 songs that caught the attention of the Kerrang Magazine, the U.K. Heavy-Metal bible.

Their first release was a self-titled EP which came out on EMI America Records in 1983; it sold more than 350,000 copies and reached the #81 position on The Billboard Top 200 chart.

The following year Queensrÿche's first full-length album, "The Warning" was recorded in London, the disc peaked at #61 in the United States and established the band as a creative force.
On their next release, 1986's "Rage For Order", Queensrÿche captured the power an discipline that defined their music; it eventually peaked at #47 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.

In the spring of 1988 the quintet released an ambitious concept album called "Operation: Mindcrime" which crossed over to mainstream success breaking the top 50 in the U.S. and went gold; "Eyes Of A Stranger", the first single on the record, hit on Billboard's Rock top 40.

Two years later Queensrÿche scored their second Mainstream Rock top 40 hit with "Last Time In Paris", a song which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the film "The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane".
The band's fourth album, "Empire", exploded into The Billboard 200 chart at #7 upon its September 1990 release and also hit the top 10 in Great Britain; it sold over 3 million copies worldwide reeling off an unprecedented six Mainstream Rock charting singles including two top 10 hits: "Jet City Woman" and "Another Rainy Night (Without You)", three top 30 hits: "Anybody Listening?", the title-track and "Best I Can" plus the massive smash "Silent Lucidity" which soared to #1 on album Rock radio chart and also hit #9 on The Billboard Hot 100.
An extensive tour followed and the concert album, "Operation LIVEcrime", was issued in October 1991.

1993 saw the Seattle heavy rockers enjoying further success when their contribution to the soundtrack to the film "Last Action Hero", the single "Real World", climbed into the top 3 of the Billboard's Active Rock chart.

In October 1994 Queensrÿche finally delivered the follow-up to "Empire"; written and recorded at the band's home studio and an isolated cabin in the San Juan Islands, off the coast of northwestern Washington State, "Promised Land" achieved a career-best peak of #3 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums list and was certified platinum spawning two Mainstream Rock top 10 hits in "Bridge" and "I Am I", plus a minor hit single with "Disconnected".

1997 saw the the group moving into the alt-Rock territory with their seventh studio record, "Hear In The Now Frontier"; it reached the #19 position on The Billboard 200 and its main single hit the top 3 of The Mainstream Rock list; the second single off the CD, "You", peaked at #11 on the same chart.

In January 1998, guitarist Chris DeGarmo announced his departure from the band he co-founded and after several months of discussions, the position was filled by longtime Queensrÿche friend and producer Kelly Gray.
The revamped line-up issued the band's Atlantic Records debut, "Q2K", in September 1999, but the album didn't rise higher than #46 in the U.S. and generated only one Mainstream Rock top 40 single, "Breakdown".

In July 2003, reunited with DeGarmo, the group released "Tribe" through Sanctuary Records, reaching #56 on The Billboard 200; the band kicked off their world tour in Europe that June and returned to the States for a co-headlining run with fellow progressive stalwarts Dream Theater.

Queensrÿche returned to the studio in 2005 for the long-anticipated sequel to 1988's acclaimed "Operation: Mindcrime"; the new record, titled "Operation: Mindcrime II", was performed by the Seattle-based quintet, Tate, Wilton, Jackson, Rockenfield along with new guitarist Mike Stone. The album hit store shelves in April 2006 and quickly ascended into the top 20 of The Billboard 200. It contained the album-Rock radio single "I'm American".

After speaking with soldiers who served in various conflicts, from World War II to Iraq, Geoff Tate turned their firsthand experiences from the frontlines into an unflinching musical examination of the life of a soldier and the consequences of war; the result was another successful concept album, "American Soldier", which debuted at #24 on The Billboard Top 200 chart.

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Queensrÿche
[EP]

(1983)

1. Queen Of The Reich
2. Nightrider
3. Blinded
4. The Lady Wore Black
5. Prophecy

 

The Warning

(1984)

1. Warning
2. En Force
3. Deliverance
4. No Sanctuary
5. NM 156
6. Take Hold Of The Flame
7. Before The Storm
8. Child Of Fire
9. Roads To Madness

 

Rage For Order

(1986)

1. Walk In The Shadows
2. I Dream In Infrared
3. The Whisper
4. Gonna Get Close To You
5. The Killing Words
6. Surgical Strike
7. Neue Regel
8. Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)
9. London
10. Screaming In Digital
11. I Will Remember

 

Operation: Mindcrime

(1988)

1. I Remember Now
2. Anarchy-X
3. Revolution Calling
4. Operation: Mindcrime
5. Speak
6. Spreading The Disease
7. The Mission
8. Suite Sister Mary
9. The Needle Lies
10. Electric Requiem
11. Breaking The Silence
12. I Don't Believe In Love
13. Waiting For 22
14. My Empty Room
15. Eyes Of A Stranger

 

The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane
[soundtrack]

(1990)

INCLUDES:

- Last Time In Paris

 

Empire

(1990)

1. Best I Can
2. The Thin Line
3. Jet City Woman
4. Della Brown
5. Another Rainy Night (Without You)
6. Empire
7. Resistance
8. Silent Lucidity
9. Hand On Heart
10. One And Only
11. Anybody Listening?

 

Last Action Hero
[soundtrack]

(1993)

INCLUDES:

- Real World

 

Promised Land

(1994)

1. 9:28 A.M.
2. I Am I
3. Damaged
4. Out Of Mind
5. Bridge
6. Promised Land
7. Disconnected
8. Lady Jane
9. My Global Mind
10. One More Time
11. Someone Else?

 

Hear In The Now Frontier

(1997)

1. Sign Of The Times
2. Cuckoo's Nest
3. Get A Life
4. The Voice Inside
5. Some People Fly
6. Saved
7. You
8. Hero
9. Miles Away
10. Reach
11. All I Want
12. Hit The Black
13. Anytime, Anywhere
14. Spool

 

Q2k

(1999)

1. Falling Down
2. Sacred Ground
3. One Life
4. When The Rain Comes
5. How Could I
6. Beside You
7. Liquid Sky
8. Breakdown
9. Burning Man
10. Wot Kinda Man
11. The Right Side Of My Mind

 

Tribe

(2003)

1. Open
2. Losing Myself
3. Desert Dance
4. Falling Behind
5. The Great Divide
6. Rhythm Of Hope
7. Tribe
8. Blood
9. The Art Of Life
10. Doin' Fine

 

Operation: Mindcrime II

(2006)

1. Freiheit Ouvertüre
2. Convict
3. I'm American
4. One Foot In Hell
5. Hostage
6. The Hands
7. Speed Of Light
8. Signs Say Go
9. Re-Arrange You
10. The Chase
11. A Murderer?
12. Circles
13. If I Could Change It All
14. An Intentional Confrontation
15. A Junkie's Blues
16. Fear City Slide
17. All The Promises

 

American Soldier

(2009)

1. Sliver
2. Unafraid
3. Hundred Mile Stare
4. At 30,000 Ft
5. A Dead Man's Words
6. The Killer
7. Middle Of Hell
8. If I Were King
9. Man Down!
10. Remember Me
11. Home Again
12. The Voice

 

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