Take Cover - Queensryche

Q2k: Remastered & Expanded - Queensryche

I got this album after listening to Promised Land which really impressed me and one of the most satisfying things about this is that you can hear the progression the band have made from one album to the next. With 12 tracks the album plays for about 45 minutes but isn't so much an album as the last one. Each song, on it's own , stands up and is good but as a collection other than similar style (due more to the fact that they're all by the same musicians recorded at a simialr time I guess than anything else) the songs don't fit together in teh same way some albums do. This isn't a very harsh criticism as there are very few albums by anyone in any genre that are ...

Queensryche - Queensryche

The first release of Washington progressive metal pioneers Queensrÿche fails to predict the innovative style the band would later be associated with, similar to how the first album of their genre contemporaries Dream Theater sounds like just another inferior clone of Rush. This self-titled E.P., originally of four tracks but later amended to five, is considered by many to be the band’s most consistent work, despite being entirely derivative of the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) explosion. Lacking the prog rock and glam influences that would later define the band’s most commercially successful period, the songs on this 1983 release can be very easily attributed ...

Promised Land - Queensryche

The first Queensryche album I came across I think it may be the best although rage for order may run it close. 12 tracks, one of which is an intro with modern day noises on which sets the scene for the album. Queensryche have achieved a signature electric guitar sound which distinguishes them immediately. What I really like about this album is the originality, it doesn't really sound like anything else. Queensryche have been called the thinking mans metal but I think this is a dangerous name to apply, as soon as metal is mentioned a very large proportion of the people who may have been interested immediately discard the idea. The thing which usually distinguishes ...