Loose four stars for a musical quality, but never exhausting Album

Unspeakable. Unspeakable was what came off last year with Queensryche. Or rather lacked for years and has finally unloaded in 2012. One can and must unfortunately speak of a public mudslinging that was fought between egocentric Geoff Tate and the rest of his colleagues, with the result that now everyone does his own thing. However, while Tate's first effusion after the big bang still leaves a lot of room for improvement, have a lot of fans - who have already beaten to a large extent on the side of Michael Wilton and Co. - placed significantly greater hope to the now present disk.

Although self-titled albums are already a hackneyed hat, but rarely was the time to publish such a fitting. With their new frontman Todd La Torre (Crimson Glory) and "Queensryche" in his luggage, the Americans now want to re-full attack, operate reparation, with fresh wind in the sails for new shores. What basically everything is commendable and will even succeed pretty sure with this album. Responsible for this is neither medial dirt throw, yet lurid headlines, but simply good songs. Of these, some see the eleven new tracks (including an intro and an interlude): "In This Light" is a candidate, the atmospheric caresses the soul and calmly midtempo passeth like a beautiful landscape during a train journey. In "A World without" it is somewhat cumbersome, the ballad pushes very slowly forward, convinced almost incidentally but with very discreet bombast. Clearly pointed, in other words harder turns out there already, "Do not look back", a fairly typical Queensryche number that brings together vocally La Torres predecessor and boss Tobi Sammet Avantasia. Nevertheless, it is primarily the soulful, evocative moments that really good to come "Queensryche". A final proof occurs in this regard the bouncer (or one should rather say "Rausschmeichler"?) "Open Road", which fits like this whole album quite nicely with a nighttime highway driving. These certainly also contributes to the fact that Queensryche Although indisputably sophisticated go to work, but they act overly intellectual at any time or can be carried away by all to great self-congratulation (greeting to the colleagues from NYC). Not a single piece exceeds the 5-minute mark, which indeed is rather unusual for a progressive band, the airy, uninhibited sense of "Queensryche" But just like the clear production is more than beneficial. Somehow the men from Washington seem downright liberated and relieved on their new longplayer. I may here cast no further fuel to the fire, but simply list the facts and impressions, but who can count together one and one good idea who has benefited most from the big bang in 2012. Last but not least of course the fans when Queensryche bring this playfulness recovered on the stage.