Which cd would best to start with QUEENSRYCHE . Thanks
And does anybody know anything about a heavy metal band call Night Wish.
Which cd would best to start with QUEENSRYCHE . Thanks
And does anybody know anything about a heavy metal band call Night Wish.
Operation Mindcrime
Empire
The Warning
Promised Land
Mindcrime and Empire are the musts. And yes, I'm sure Nightwish is very well known to PE members, too.
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For prog fans it's these three:
Rage for Order - a futuristic sounding album that was way ahead of its time
Operation: Mindcrime - not as progressive as its reputation might suggest, but still a very good and melodic metal concept album
Promised Land - their moodiest album. Fans of the more commercial material tend to dislike it, I think it's a masterpiece.
Empire has a few nice songs, but also a lot of dull "aimed for radio" stuff.
mindcrime
rage for order
promised land
empire
tribe
Thanks so much for the info.
I only have Promised Land and I like it very much. It seems to be the proggiest album that I have heard from them. Empire was boring and I got burned out on Mindcrime.
I like the 2003 remastered expanded edition of the 1983 EP Queensryche.
1. Queen of the Reich
2. Nightrider
3. Blinded
4. The Lady Wore Black
Bonus Tracks Live in Tokyo 1984:
5. Nightrider
6. Prophecy
7. Deliverance
8. Child Of Fire
9. En Force
10. Blinded
11. The Lady Wore Black
12. Warning
13. Take Hold Of The Flame
14. Queen of the Reich
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If you really love proggy elements in your metal, I would say start with Rage for Order, then The Warning. After that I'd go for Operation Mindcrime, Promised Land and then their EP which contains the blistering track Queen of the Ryche.
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Yet it's aged a lot better than Promised Land, which is all over the place and suffers from subpar writing in places. Geoff was taking control more and more and Promised Land was the first album to really suffer for it.
The Warning is prime QR and shouldn't be overlooked because it isn't a wall-to-wall concept album, "less proggy," etc. It just kicks ass.
Love me some 'Ryche! Operation: Mindcrime is a desert island disc for me and Empire's worth purchasing for four reasons (imho): Best I Can, Della Brown, Silent Lucidity, and Anybody Listening?.
Nightwish are one of my all-time favorite bands and have been for some time.
As much as I love their two most recent studio albums- Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum- it's their work with former vocalist Tarja Turunen (now a solo artist) that made me a total fanboy. I have no hesitation in going on record with my opinion that the only vocalist I've heard that can even hold a candle to this classically-trained opera singer is Annie Haslam (of Renaissance fame). If you can get your hands on it, there's a double live album/concert DVD that Nuclear Blast Records released titled End of an Era, which is a performance from Tarja's last tour with the group (possibly even the last gig they did together).
Best wishes and prog on!
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