With their second full-length album, 1986’s Rage For Order, Washington State’s “thinking man’s metal” band, Queensrÿche began a conscious transformation. Though they retained their love ...

Nonetheless, Queensrÿche’s 1990 album Empire isn’t full-on commercial rock. The record yielded several radio-ready singles, but the songs feature plenty of unconventional flourishes.

Queensrÿche vocalist Geoff Tate and guitarist Chris DeGarmo are in town, with a cassette of their new album, Operation: Mindcrime. The concept of a pre-release tape will seem antiquated today ...