RAGE FOR ORDER

Tate| deGarmo and co. were pretty much untouchable from this album to 10 years later. A huge decade for them and a super treat for us. Queensryche arrived in my life as THE video of 1990 that played over and over and over and over (sigh), to the joy of womanhood probably. Yes, I'm talking about Silent Lucidity, although the song represents well the ballads they can produce, I'm more a fan of the crunchy side than their Pink Floyd side. I'm also frankly aware that I'm preaching for an album that passed me by 33 years ago but it's never too late to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.

So here goes: it's more than awesome.

Yes, I was happily surprised to hear the same beloved ingredients that made Mindcrime a 7-stars-out-of-5 album. And let's not be shy: there would be NO Dream Theater and their cohorts of clones without Queensryche (and Fates Warning and Rush, if if you wanna be more precise). Why they aren't more praised is beyond my comprehension, considering Limb Bizkit sold millions of records without getting out of the gutter.

Expect an album with a bit more keyboards than what they gave us later, and I think it's a shame they didn't continue with that element. Oh well, we have here a savvy blend of Pink Floyd's melody and wits matched with a tamer form of metal, compared with today's at least. It's an album much above average in terms of melody and vocal prowess from a band on top of their game. Less and less Iron Maiden and a closer approach to what Rush did with Hold Your Fire (I Dream in Infrared, Screaming in Digital for instance). Don't you think it's a shame how it ended? I know their divorce was pretty ugly, including threats to family, smelly spits in the face, fisticuffs and more; a true drama a la Beatles. Luckily, we have a testimony of high intelligence heavy rock with this album that reminds us that for a few short years, Queensryche was the best band in world. And how.

I never realized how much they contributed to the rock background until this album. A real gem.

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