Nikki loves Mary, but Nikki is a junkie and Mary is a hooker who’s become a nun. Nikki has been ordered to kill Mary by Dr. X, who runs an above-the-law subversive organisation that brainwashes people ...

Operation: Mindcrime, the progressive rock and metal hybrid fronted by Geoff Tate, have announced Dec. 1 as the release date for the album The New Reality. The LP is the third and final chapter in the ...

The Key is much like Queensryche’s previous conceptual albums, including their landmark 1988 effort Operation: Mindcrime. It is chock full of spoken word passages and digital sound effects that move ...

Sixteen years after the release of "Operation: Mindcrime," Queensryche is writing the next chapter to the 1988 concept album that broke the progressive rock band into the mainstream. By Billboard ...

The slow-motion breakup of Queensryche is finally complete, with both sides issuing a new statement hailing an "amicable settlement." Jackson, Rockenfield and Wilton, along with recent members Todd La ...

It’s early 1988. A hotel in the centre of London, buzzing with rock’n’roll energy. The wintry windows are frosted. But the air is thickened by the glowing warmth of anticipation. In the subdued ...

For the better part of the 1980s, Queensrÿche was a head-turning progressive metal band opening for some of the bigger tours — including Kiss’ 1984 makeup-less “Animalize Tour,” as well as 1988’s Def ...

"Time is ripe for changes," Queensryche's Geoff Tate sings in "Revolution Calling." "There's a growing feeling/ That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due." The song was written more than 15 ...

Queensryche has begun working on the follow-up to last year's "Operation: Mindcrime II" in Seattle. Frontman Geoff Tate tells Billboard.com he hopes the as-yet-untitled set will arrive next summer or… ...

I've never been a major fan of Queensryche's "thinking man's metal." I find the bulk of the band's work to be kind of cold and clinical—guess I'm just accustomed to a little more hellfire, blood…and ...

Queensryche released a new album yesterday; the sequel to 1988's Operation Mindcrime. For those of you unfamiliar with Operation Mindcrime, its celebrated by many as the most perfect example of a rock ...

With its epic concept about junkie assassins, shadowy organisations and conspiracy theories, Queensryche’s third album, 1988’s Operation: Mindcrime, is one of the most acclaimed metal records of that ...