"LuvnU is hard to do"

Evil to him who sees as a connection.

Dedicated to Chaos has become a very amazing album. One that I did not want to admit.

In retrospect, I wish 1998 would have announced the band after DeGarmos exit:
That's halt. Let's now something new out of it.

The development that has taken Queensryche especially in recent years, is absurd. Meanwhile, we have already arrived at the barn parody. Credibility then, Geoff Tate's ego bursts against prior dominance.
The public distancing from the metal scene took Geoff Tate and his followers never ceases to want her remaining followers sell new styles. Not that everything was bad, really not, it went uphill again, but this is quite funny, people.

I think it's a little unfair to leave the band today still suffer for their former exploits with each new album. Unfortunately, many of the band reduce still only on Operation: Mindcrime and Empire, this was her greatest works but also above Rage for Order, with its unbridled experimentation delusion and the dark and bulky Promised Land, where many a fan has to chew today. Queensryche has never want to make easy his fans, never hinterhergeschielt trends.

Of course, much was different to Chris exit, and not everything better than in 1997 on his farewell album Hear in the now frontier.

But: Each of these discs offered still really good stuff! MURDERER? or the hands, TRIBE, THE ART OF LIFE,
RIGHT SIDE OF MY MIND, AT 30,000 FEET, REMEMBER ME - just to name a few.

Moments of goodness one is looking at DTC unfortunately in vain. Not even a short gasp in the middle of the album does not change.

While opening up even the most sluggish numbers sometime, but you have already aufwänden a tremendous amount of patience and desire to find such ditties as BROKEN, THE LIE, WE DO WOT or HIGHER exciting!
And they gave us so much hope with American Soldier ...

GET STARTED as a Metal band is there still a pleasant slide into this new Queensryche "silver bullet".
We get served melodic, interchangeable Ami Skirt.

HOT SPOT JUNKIE rocks hearty forward in "prime" Hear in the now frontier-style and one of the few played by Michael Wilton solos Dedicated to Chaos.

GOT IT BAD I have not digested, even after dozens of passes. Just unbelievable. This is unbearable. As an open listener an oriental keyboard sounds with funk rhythms rocked thereto are in principle was not necessarily negative, but when Queensryche is on the label, you should also remember something. No matter what bad Popscheibe was last published, this song would be in good hands on any album. That's just embarrassing.
Every housewife with iron is functioning at AROUND THE WORLD have great joy, the new group of buyers waiting. Seriously, it's a nice, direct Posong with significant U2 appeal, pleasing arranged.

To take heavy is HIGHER, which was designed and unhappy entgegenschwurbelt unmelodic its end.
Clearly straighter can at Retail Therapy. Songs related found to Hear in the now frontier and American Soldier.
DRIVE begins modern and gives us hope, but goes on not so good, but stumbles a little disoriented by the Laustsprecher. As would have been possible much more melodic. Nevertheless, a small consolation prize for trying.
The band has not 2 guitarists? - That no longer belong probably become standard equipment of the band. Michael Wilton'll know why he took part only marginally in the recordings.

Some guitar solos are dilettante, emotionless and amateurish runtergeschrubbt without phrasing. If I find exciting Geoff Tate's saxophone playing as the performance on guitar, speaks volumes.
Can I choose whether it has Kelly Gray or yet to answer for Parker Lundgren?

Only then finally follows now the first song that reminded what band we actually listen to all the time a: AT THE EDGE.
If it were not constantly integrated unnecessary interruptions and the vocal part melodic and liquid arranged and not defaced with rapartigen stylistic devices, the song could ignite even as a whole. The anticipated guitar solo has been replaced by a saxophone - that's the real Queensryche Moment with spine-tingling effect! Great fun!

I rubbed my hands and thought, start-over, here we go. With 16 tracks that would just barely okay ...

But that's it with the glory.

Through the rest of the disk I dragged myself somehow through without that came the great enlightenment.
Many runs followed. Disenchantment remained.
It is dominated by uninspired keyboard ballads and unimaginative strumming. Whenever songs begin interesting, they are brought in the course of the season just to make ends meet somehow. Modern Grooves as in Drive are too little exploited or not consistently developed.
Only HARD TIMES impressed with casual bass groove and fragile instrumentation. A thoughtful piece of music.
I TAKE YOU offers a halfway functioning rock song interspersed with hip hop vocals. At BIG NOIZE could even find some joy, unless sttört that one has sloppy when song structure. Every time you start, sets out the river. When unannounced Epic unfit, but atmospherically succeeded.

Vocally is going even more insanely much.
Recall earlier it was said: The level singing. Hammer voice with 4 octaves. Today we say, decreases the level, and indeed ever.
But often something new - Geoff Tate raps, pants, bleats and whispers (as Barry White) through its texts, partly a shame.

And please people, what to do with items such as fans WOT WE DO? That meant no harm, but is that really you serious? We grew up with your adventurous guitar music, you have in the metal scene set standards, innovations brought about - and now it presents soft hip hop !? GOT IT BAD was you probably were not enough ...

Well, you look at the song titles on, could give the impression that they know what they do to us:

We are going through hard times, feel BROKEN, experience BIG NOIZE to nothing, know THE LIE that this band now is.
Yes, LUVNU (IS SO HARD TO DO).

But the spelling of some title is so laughable as the album itself.
Meanwhile, the point is reached, one can justify lack of songwriting no longer ongoing stylistic mutation. Queensryche have music not only lost their regulars out of sight, but musically nothing more to say. Moreover, they deprive themselves of any leftover seriousness.

The songwriting was again largely outsourced. (Randy Gane, Kelly Gray, Jason Slater etc) It is telling when the best song of the album of Scott Rockfield comes!

I'll tell you who this disc can be fun: All those who took pleasure also to Geoff's solo album. D2C beats 100% the same line, even more so, it's like a direct continuation thereof.

Pleasant, modern, rhythmic music, stylistically varied, not always melodic, often interchangeably, technically great implemented and always strives to relevance. What is missing from the album, is the element of surprise, the brainchild, the unheard melody. And credibility.

Whoever heeds the DTC will surely love.
This is not metal. Not even rock. Who cares. There it pop. But unfortunately not a very imaginative.

You can really be curious to see how the fans will react to Dedicated to Chaos.