Hear in the Now Frontier

Artist: Queensrÿche
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724385614149
EAN: 0724385614149
ASIN: B000002ULA

Release Date: 1997-03-25

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Tracks:

Sign of the Times
Cuckoo's Nest
Get a Life
Voice Inside
Some People Fly
Saved
You
Hero
Miles Away
Reach
All I Want
Hit the Black
Anytime/Anywhere
spOOL

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Empire
Q2K
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Customer Reviews:

The Most Underated Album In All of Metal.......2006-09-18

Alrighty When I Got This And Listen To It I Was Expecting Promised Land x2 (And Promised Land is By Far One Of The Worst Metal CD's I've Herd)But I Was Amazard From The Frist TRack I Was Totally Sucked Into A Type of Queensryche I Had Never Herd Before,A Slower Melodic Kind This Entire Album Flows Together In Amazing Fashion.
Queensryche Has Like 3 Fan Groups
1. Metal Fans - To Them Ryke Died At Promised Land
2. Ryke Fans - To Them They Died Here
3. Others - Die hards Who Will Like Anything Or People Who Know What They Like..
I Think I Fall Into The Third
Anybody Expecting Another Warning Or Mindcrime This Inst For You, But If You LIked Empire And Wanna See The Next Link In The Chain Check This Out You Will Be Amazed: Check Out Tips: ALL

Listen Again With Fresh Ears.......2006-09-14

This is a good album. In fact, I listen to it more than "Empire" or "Mindcrime." I've never thought it was a horrible album, but after "Promised Land" it just didn't resonate with me.

Some time ago I popped it into my CD-Rom while doing some work on the computer and I fell in love with it. It's now in a fairly regular rotation.

Give this another listen, you just might discover you've missed something.

This album grew on me .......2006-08-23

Surprisingly enough, because I thought it was weak when I first picked it up. True, it is no Empire, and certainly no Mindcrime ( which is my favorite album of all time ), but if I judge every album by those standards, I'd hate everything. It's fairly diverse, and as a musician, I have learned to appreciate this album ... especially tracks 4, 5, and 8 when I am feeling mellow. Those of you who are huge Ryche fans like me, give it another try ... you just may find you have changed your tune

Horrible .......2006-07-30

This has got to be the worst cd ever put out in the world of metal. I am an avid fan of Queensryche up through Empire. I would give this album zero stars if I could. What happened to this band?

Right into the progressive pop zone!.......2006-07-27

Queensryche has always experimenting with the music fasion of the time of each album. The albums of the eighties all contained excellent versions of the metal scene and Queensryche developed a name as one, if not the best, progressive bands ever. While Empire (1990) had a more happier touch to it Promised Land presented a unimitatable dark landscape where I consider that the band reached their musical highpoint.

The thing I love about Queensryche, and why it is one of my favorite bands, is that they always try to develop themselves musically for every new album. They are getting tired of doing the same musical style all over again even though they are happy with the result. This is something different from Iron Maiden that in my ears is doing the same thing all over and over again which kind of get quite boring to listen to after a while. With Queensryche I always expect something different and new and almost always I get it. The problem with Hear In The Now Frontier, although the music is different from anything they've done before, is that it doesn't appeal to the musical style that I want to hear from a band like Queensryche and it doesn't reach the same kind of musical territory that includes the band's early influences from the progressive music and more symphonic and sometimes aggressive metal and rock style. The earlier Queensryche albums are all characterized by the pompous style with big choruses that is held up by Geoff Tate's voice and the harmonic guitar work played by Wilton and De Garmo. The difference with this album is that it presents a more laid back sound more similar to the style of bands like Blur and Oasis that were very modern during this time and the big choruses are replaced by more laid back pop beats. I can also hear some influnces of sixties pop like the Beatles.

I can't deny that the music is quite good and maybe was something new for its time and will hold up still today (I actually put this CD on a few times a year when I'm in the right mood). But in my ears the sound of progressive pop rather than symphonic metal that characterizes Queensryche's early records isn't just as good. But while this doesn't go for everyone this might be the perfect record if you're a fan of both Oasis and Blur and Queensryche at the same time. I just tell me what it sounds like in my ears while I'm a fan of all sorts of metal, progressive rock and symphonic rock and I don't hold british pop bands as close to my heart as Queensryche's progressive metal.

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