Matt Pavlichko at Guitar World recently caught up with QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton to discuss the band's new album, Dedicated To Chaos. An excerpt follows:

Q: Did Roadrunner give the band the freedom to pretty much do what you wanted on the record?

A: "We’ve been doing this for a while so we always get to do what we want."

Q: At which Seattle studio did you record, and did you work with a producer or produce the record on your own?

A: "A lot of the recording is done in our own studios. I have a Pro-Tools studio, big guitar setup, lots of amps, speakers, microphones and everything. It’s kind of guitar central right there. Drums were recorded at London Bridge Studio in Seattle. And then different home studios set up with Pro-Tools."

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Queensrÿche's new song, 'Around The World', is currently available for free download from the band's Facebook page (hit 'like' to access to the track).

'Around The World' is found on Queensrÿche's new album, Dedicated To Chaos, which will be released in Europe via WEA/Roadrunner on June 27th and by Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud on June 28th in North America.

Dedicated To Chaos tracklisting is as follows:

'Get Started'

'Hot Spot Junkie'

'Got It Bad'

'Around The World'

'Higher'

'Retail Therapy'

'At The Edge'

'Broken'

'Hard Times'

'Drive'

'I Believe'

'Luvnu'

'Wot We Do'

'I Take You'

'The Lie'

'Big Noize'

Audio samples Dedicated To Chaos can be heard at this location.

Queensrÿche's new digital single, for the Dedicated To Chaos album track 'Get Started', is now available at usual digital platforms.

“Modern life moves fast,” commented frontman Geoff Tate about the album. “Plug into the rhythm of the now with our 12th studio album, Dedicated To Chaos. It’s a clash and slash of musical experimentation anchored by the pulse of digital code.”

He did issue one suggestion to listeners as well, saying: “Enjoy – headphones are a must.”

BraveWords.com spoke to frontman Geoff Tate late last year about the album. "It will be a very strong collection of songs. The topic of the album is all over the place. There's a lot of different subjects we tackle. The sound and the writing direction is probably more focused on rhythm than any of our records have been. Scott (Rockenfield; drums) and Eddie (Jackson; bass) are contributing a lot to the composition of this record, so there's a lot of focus on rhythm structure and keeping things very rhythmatic and moving. It's got a lot of very intricate bass/drum work on it that perhaps hasn't been featured on earlier albums. Therefore it's going to have a very modern sound to it. Music these days, outside of hard rock and metal, is really rhythm-oriented. There's a lot of movement to it. So we're kind of going with that as a feature on this record. Still, there's a lot of interesting guitar work as we try to push the guitar into different areas as well, while trying to stay away from the bone-head stuff like the chunk-chunk-chunk kind of thing. We're using the guitars in a more melodic sense. The band is producing it with Kelly Gray, our longtime friend and engineer (and former guitarist)."

Check out the entire chat here.