Queensryches opus magnum - and Nemesis both

Music is everybody knows, a matter of taste, so it is pointless to discuss whether "Operation: Mindcrime" is now the "best" heavy metal album of all time or not. One thing is certain, however: With this album Queensryche in 1988 delivered the most critically acclaimed album to date in this musical genre. What is particularly remarkable: This praise came not only from the scene itself, but also and especially from other areas of the gathered music and Kulturjournaille. For the first time heavy metal musicians were noticed outside their own haze circle as serious artists - even the arts section of the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper headlined at the Germany tour of the band in 1991: "Hard Rock can be served intelligent" This was for the band members. but by no means the expected beneficial effects, for in spite of - but with onset delay - commercial success of the album failed to make the genre Heavy Metal permanently in major handset popular layers and to establish itself as a "serious" light music. In particular, the two creative minds of the band, guitarist Chris DeGarmo and singer Geoff Tate (one of the few hard rock singers with classical vocal training - and you can hear that!) Were less interested in commercial success, but wanted to be perceived because of your compositional and craftsmanship , In the Heavy scene they felt therefore - confirmed by the universally positive reviews of "Operation: Mindcrime" - no longer at home Back in 2001, said Tate in an interview on the metal fans in Queensryche concerts: "They only respond to the. music, but they do not listen. " The success of "Operation: Mindcrime" Queensryche could indeed financially beat again with the significantly softer geratenen successor "Empire" (1990), were added Grammys and an unplugged gig at MTV. After that, however, it was for many years continuously downhill because of the curse to be measured for all time on a almost unsurpassable genius, the band for 15 years adhered to and followed it like the proverbial Nemesis.
Even if you have been nothing left for Hard Rock nothing and for Heavy Metal: "Operation: Mindcrime" is one due to the above-outlined exceptional position in each CD-rack that offer a representative cross section of underground music in the second half of the 20th century want.