OPERATION: MINDCRIME

Best prog metal (and general metal) record of all time - point. More authentic and song oriented than Dream Theater, more original than Fates Warning and with the best lead voice ever! If you haven't heard songs like Eyes Of A Stranger, Breaking The Silence, I Don't Believe In Love, Suite Sister Mary, The Needle Lies, just to call some examples, it's time to make it happen. Operation: Mindcrime is the best example for a perfect concept album and many bands tried to copy this, but finally never reached the brilliance of this flawless masterpiece. This album only works when you hear it full length, because than it opens the closed doors of the story behind. Lyrically nothing can reach this release, simply the most brilliant lyrics ever written when you are really in this and hear the lyrics together with the music. How Geoff Tate interpretates the music in songs like "Breaking The Silence", "I Don't Believe In Love" and "Eyes Of A Stranger" is highest worldclass and unreached! Thinkin' Man's Metal - that's Operation: Mindcrime!