If the reputation is ruined ...

..lebt it quite openly!
This saying fits Queensryche real as chalk and cheese. It's really frightening that a band that once released such classics as "Operation Mindcrime", "The Warning" or "Emmpire" has brought about music for ages nothing more. The last really good album was "Promised Land" that came after was a desperate attempt to adapt to alternative rock and grunge era but I can at albums like "Hear in the Now Frontier", "Q2K", "Tribe", "American Soldier "and" Dedicated to Chaos "hardly recognize a song of even remotely in the ear hanging permanent. And with "Operation Mindrcime II" Queensryche have their reputation totally ruined my opinion, the test well to connect with their most ambitious album failed completely what Queensryche had musically delivered as only partly to do with the first "Operation Mindcrime" album.
After the questionable musical development, it was beyond almost to read embarrassing how singer Geoff Tate fell out with the rest of the band and the parties mutually blamed on the musical development. Ultimately, it came to the break and both parties fought over the band's name Queensryche. The Result of this cabaret-like back and forth is that there are now so 2 band with the name of Queensryche is, with "Frequency Unknown" sets the Geoff Tate version so its first sign of life before while Michael Wilton, Scott Rockfield, Eddie Jackson with new singer Todd La Torre will present their Queensryche version in June.

So how sounds "Frequency Unknown"? In short summary: cruel !! What is Geoff Tate has an album intended to publish with such cheap Soundabmischung or production probably only he knows himself, the album works by somehow inaudible. If Tate would have at least managed to compensate for this shortcoming by compositional quality it might be only half as bad but not even he succeeds to some extent. Similar to "Dedicated to Chaos", "American Soldier" and consorts the inconsequential here rock music is where Geoff Tate presented vocally very weak. In addition, sounds absolutely nothing all of a piece and there are no bright ideas let alone a song which would even halfway earned the band name Queensryche. If that were not bad enough already to Geoff Tate shoveling the last 4 songs be specially grave where he was at the Queensryche classic "I do not belive in love", "Empire", "Silent Lucidity" and "Jet City Woman" operated and this new einspielt. But in which way you please ??? In "Empire", "Jet City Woman" and "Silent Lucidity" missing ledigliche energy and Tate manages simply no longer with his singing to produce such emotions as in the original version, he sings the songs sometimes very wrong. The greatest insolence is beyond "I do not believe in love", this once brilliant song sounds in the new recording just awful: harmless guitar, subterranean vocals and a completely raped Refrain show more than clear that Geoff Tate is no longer in the able to sing this song or maybe he just did not feel like it. If you listen to the original version of "Operation Mindcrime" in comparison, one should Geoff Tate for this new recording on "Frequency Unknown" rocky ...
"Frequency unknown" is a sad realization that the era of a once-great singers like Geoff Tate is just passing, vocally he meets hardly the sounds of yesteryear. To publish such an album under the band name Queensryche is actually a nerve, with the cover (a fist with the initials "FU") saves Tate even with an embarrassing jab toward his former colleagues ...
Whether they can convince in June with her album I dare first to doubt, even though it can hardly be worse than "Frequency Unknown" I listen to rather "Rage For Order", "The Warning", "Operation Mindcrime" and "Empire" with the realization that the band Queensryche is virtually dead. For the magical moments of the band's history Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton and many years ago migrated Chris DeGarmo worried when they were still together work together as a collective.