OPERATION: MINDCRIME

I have never liked Queensryche that much. I always thought that they weren't too special, they sounded too much like glam metal rather than progressive metal. However, Operation: Mindcrime is probably the only Queensryche album that I like, and I really like it. Apparently, it was a very important album within progressive metal and although I can say that it rips off Pink Floyd's The Wall a little too much, it still packs one hell of a punch! Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden are this album's main influences, and the whole album is a concept album spread over a shit-ton of tracks. Some of them are one minute long which makes them useless if you're not doing a full listen, and yes: the tracks in this album all work as a single work rather than a track compilation that you can listen separately, an exception would be Suite Sister Mary.

I would personally give this album a four star rating, but trying to be as objective as possible and considering the importance of the album within its genre, I will give it five stars.