Surgery - brain crime - One of the best concept albums of all time

Operation Mindcrime - tells the story of the heroin addict Nikki who joins due to its situation of a revolutionary movement. Here it is supplied by Dr. X regularly with cloth, but only after he has killed someone. In this mission, he falls in love with the nun Mary who has a terrible life behind him, was sexually abused, and still regularly their superiors - must prove sexual services - to the priest or abbot of the monastery. Nikki gets a little later the order to kill sister Mary, but what brings him into a serious crisis of conscience. It came as it had come, Sister Mary dies, where the history is not clear who killed her. At the end of the fully pumped full of drugs Nikki lands as emotional wreck in the closed institution, where he henceforth has to eke out its existence.

All in all, the whole story authentic character, because this story reflects actually exactly life again, what can happen to a drug addict, and thus produces a deterrent effect in terms of drug use. The different songs of the disc are shown brilliantly, and go for the most part seamlessly into one another. The crackling tension that I mentioned in my review of - Rage For Order - have mentioned is on - Operation Mindcrime - consistently present, so that the whole album almost seething with emotions.

I would like to emphasize now not a single song. I hear this album personally always, from the first to the last song, in one go by.

The excellent remastered version includes two more acceptable live tracks that are not really mandatory but, especially since the songs on the album are included on almost all live publications of Queensryche.