Queensrÿche

Artist: Queensrÿche
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724358052824
EAN: 0724358052824
ASIN: B0000931Q0

Release Date: 2003-05-06

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Tracks:

Queen Of The Reich
Nightrider
Blinded
The Lady Wore Black
Nightrider
Prophecy
Deliverance
Child Of Fire
En Force
Blinded
The Lady Wore Black
Warning
Take Hold Of The Flame
Queen Of The Reich

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Promised Land
Empire
Operation: Mindcrime

Customer Reviews:

A remarkable beginning;.......2006-11-28

After discovering 'Prophesy' was supposed to be on this album, I bought it at the first opportunity. Before, I knew I liked 'Queen of the Reich', 'Lady wore Black', and then I discovered 'Prophesy.' Those are three out of five original songs on this album(back then, they were these large black plastic 'albums'!LoL) that rock the hell out of most bands even before Queensryche's later stuff. But, then I gave blinded and nightrider third chances; i had already determined they were at least worth listening to if you were 'in the mood.' But now, I'm just amazed at those songs as much as the 'big' three! This album just on those songs is equal if not better than anything from any other rock band; this album is better than anything metallica has ever put together!

The Warning in my opinion outside of the obvious two songs 'Take Hold of the Flame(one of the great songs of our times and important to any queensryche fan), and 'Roads to Madness', is the band trying to find another way of playing this music they found in a new way. Warning has some moments of hope for the 'Warning' album, but the rest of the songs continue to fall short(I've been listening to queensryche since getting 'Operation Mindcrime' on cassette; yes, I still have it on cassette); the band didn't figure out how to take their musical sound to another level till 'Rage for Order.' Some people consider 'Warning' a continuation of this first effort of theirs, but like I explain, they were really trying to find their way out of it; good thing they did, because as I've just listened to 'Tribe' and 'Hear in the Now Frontier' after listening to 'Operation Mindcrime 11', Queensryche is probably my favorite band for 'intelligent' music; deep music that requires a musical sense and some concentration to like it.

Great raw debut. Every classic metal fan needs this!.......2006-04-12

This is Queensryche's debut. Too bad there is only 4 songs here but on the remastered version theres 10 songs performed live from 1984 on it! Anyway this is the most raw release from Queensryche. If they put 4 or 5 more songs on this album in this style than it might have been one of the best albums ever.

1.Queen of the Reich- 10/10 One of Queensryche's best songs ever! This classic opens up with a great high pitched scream which Geoff Tate holds for over 10 seconds! The riff is great too. The song is in the style of early 80's power metal such as Iron Maiden and Dio. Geoff Tate hits a ton of high notes in this song aswell as some very low notes! The solo is great and the harmony is excellent. The part of the solo where just Degarmo plays reminds me of Vivian Campbell and Dave Murray. The chorus is excellent aswell. The lyrics are cool as hell too! Incredible vocals and just overall an awesome song. I can't say enough about this song.

2.Nightrider- 10/10 Another great classic power metal song. The intro gives this song a nice build up. Another excellent riff. Tate's first scream is cool as hell too. This song turns into an excellent fast song. Tate's vocals are amazing too. Another awesome chorus too. The guitar solo is excellent too. Another classic Queensryche song. A ton of great screams by Geoff Tate on this song

3.Blinded- 10/10 Another great song. Geoff Tate's vocals are amazing once again. This sounds quite a bit like Iron Maiden. Another great guitar solo and more excellent screams from Geoff Tate.

4.The Lady Wore Black- 10/10 An amazing epic song! This reminds me a bit of Take Hold Of The Flame. The song starts off soft and stays that way for a bit. Geoff Tate's vocals are incredible on this song. Geoff Tate takes his singing to another level on this song. The heavy part is excellent too. The lyrics are great on this song too. The song switches between the soft and heavy part a few times and that makes the song seem more epic. Another amazing solo too! I can't say enough about this amazing song.

The songs on this E.P. are masterpeices. Queen Of The Reich and The Lady Wore Black are 2 of the best songs ever recorded! Geoff Tate has never sounded better than on this album and the riffs and solos are excellent too. The music is very similar to Dio and Iron Maiden.

Geoff Tate- Vocals
Chris Degarmo- Guitar
Michael Wilton- Guitar
Scott Rockenfield- Drums
Eddie Jackson- Bass

There is no escape...........2005-10-07

In 1983, Queensryche exploded onto the metal scene with this EP. A little known band from Bellevue, WA, it was by pure chance that KERRANG! Magazine got their hands on this EP and wrote an article heralding it as the future of metal. The world would never be the same.

22 years later, this EP has aged extremely well. The music takes hold of you once you hear Geoff Tate's amazing scream in the beginning of the title track, and it never lets you go. If someone were to hear this music for the first time in the present day, they may not think much of it, but for 1983, it was a groundbreaking release. Backing up Tate are the band's two most important songwriters, lead guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, as well as Eddie Jackson (bass) and Scott Rockenfield (drums). This lineup would remain the same for the next fifteen years. Geoff Tate, in my opinion, is the greatest rock/metal vocalist of all time. I have seen this band live many times, and his range and power are just as perfect in person, even in the year 2005.

The title track, 'Nightrider,' 'Blinded,' and 'The Lady Wore Black' are all metal classics that can be listened to thousands of times. In addition to Tate's vocals, both DeGarmo and Wilton were already writing and playing some of the most well constructed and creative solos on this record. They were in their late teens/early 20's, but their solos were totally flawless. When this album was re-released in 1986, the bonus track 'Prophecy' was added. I have always felt this track was a hidden gem in the Queensryche catalog and I would even say it's better than the rest of the tracks on this EP. The solos are full of tremolo action, finger tapping, hammer-on's, pull-off's, and arpeggios. One of my favorite aspects of DeGarmo's and Wilton's solos is there's always a healthy balance between technique and feeling. I always felt this was missing in most other metal from the early 80's.

If you're new to Queensryche, I would buy this EP along with THE WARNING and RAGE FOR ORDER. After you listen to all three albums about one hundred times, and you start to believe the music just couldn't get any better, go out and buy OPERATION MINDCRIME to be truly blown away!!!

A beginning........2005-06-15

In the early 80s, before Seattle emerged as a viable option on the musical map, there was a band called Queensryche that recorded and independently released an EP (foreshadowing the path chosen by many local bands years later). This is that EP.

The truth of the matter is, there's little on here to separate this from dozens of other metal releases of the era-- admittedly, the performance is good, but the material itself is fairly week. The first three pieces were written before vocalist Geoff Tate became involved and are pretty much straightforward metal-- well executed, but not terribly interesting. "The Lady Wore Black", written by Tate and guitarist Chris DeGarmo, shows a bit more promise. Its a somewhat better song, with a quiet verse-loud chorus structure that hints at what would come to Seattle a decade later, and it shows a marked improvement over the other tracks. But in the end, the value of this is for historical purposes, not merit, the band would go on to so much more in the future, and this recording sounds an awful lot like any number of other early '80s metal acts.

On this reissue, the record has been remastered-- it sounds crisp and clean, with no traces of its age in the recording fidelity (not the music!). Further, the EP is augmented by ten tracks originally from the "Live in Japan" video. Recorded in 1984, this is the real value of the disc, the early show illustrates where the band's reputation was made, they were clearly hungry and perform quite powerfully-- the entire EP gets a reading as does five tracks from the then soon-to-be-released "The Warning" and "Prophecy". While musically this all falls short of what was to come, the performance is superb, particularly on standouts "Prophecy" and "Take Hold of the Flame", and the evolution that band was undergoing was astonishing-- the newer material was far more advanced from the EP.

If you're interested in Queensryche, start with their middle period material-- "Operation: Mindcrime" if you're a metal fan, "Empire" if you're AOR, "Promised Land" if you're a bit weird. Save this one for later. Its a nice package, but only for fans.

4 star rating for the remastered version.......2005-04-06

In the original version, the self-titled EP would have rated 3 stars, to me. In some ways, after all, it was typical of that era (1982/83), as there were some Iron Maiden and Judas Priest inspired moments in the songs. Yet, in others not so typical. The band's musical brashness and intensity shone through. And of course since it led to greater works later on, this EP is a significant testament. When you think of it, these guys were in their late teens then, and though most had played extensively in other bands, Queensryche began, primarily, in a basement and recorded an EP before they had ever played live as a band. Back then, that was something.

It is admittedly my own fault that I am jaded these days towards, Queen Of The Reich, and, The Lady Wore Black. Over the years I have played the songs to death. Queen Of The Reich, comes off kind of cheese-y lyrically, these days, but, The Lady Wore Black, still stands up lyrically, being an especially high-quality song-writing moment for an EP from a band just starting.

What makes this remaster of the EP worth getting, is the number of extra tracks that have been added to the package, which are taken from the "Live In Tokyo" VHS (not otherwise released). Songs such as, Nightrider, and, Blinded, are seldom played in more recent years. Nightrider, is especially cool to hear as a live track with the volume cranked. One recalls lines of dialogue from Mad Max while listening. The live version of, Prophecy, is also quite good, as well as, Road To Madness, in classic form with the original lyrics.

Even if you are a Queensryche fan who has the initial version of the EP on CD, you have to get this anyway. The live tracks include all four EP tracks, Prophecy, and most tracks from The Warning.

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