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Queensrÿche & Metallica

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QUEENSRŸCHE (1982 - present) | METAL EDGE, May 1995.

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On this week's edition of Riff Appreciation Wednesday:

"The Needle Lies" - Queensrÿche

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Queensrÿche - Walk in the Shadows

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Queensrÿche: Operation Mindcrime

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Friday, April 11: Queensrÿche, "Man Down!"

The second Operation: Mindcrime was successful enough for Queensrÿche that Geoff Tate felt that much more emboldened to indulge his muse (and ignore his bandmates) on the follow-up, as American Soldier was another thematically focused record conceived and composed almost entirely by Tate and Jason Slater with little to no input from the rest of the band.  To be fair, Tate’s lyrical intentions were admirable, and “Man Down!” was at least a bit heavier than usual for Queensrÿche in the early ‘00s.  This one was written by Tate and Kelly Gray and had some of the same churning qualities Gray contributed on Q2K, so it was still far removed from almost anything that people originally liked about Queensrÿche, but it moved with force and felt purposeful.  Nonetheless, Tate remained both the band’s driving force and their biggest liability: he pushed towards high-minded concepts and tried to keep things interesting (to him, anyway), but he also masked his declining range by making everything else sound muddy and tamping down any dynamics in the riffing and percussion, while his lyrics weren’t nearly as insightful as he liked to believe.  Queensrÿche was all but a solo project at this point, to the point where something like “Man Down!” could more accurately be viewed as a better Geoff Tate number rather than just an OK Queensrÿche track.

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Michael Wilton 23/02/1962

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Queensrÿche - Anybody Listening?