Seattle progressive metallers QUEENSRŸCHE took part in a special performance and meet n' greet for fans who purchased the band's new album, Dedicated To Chaos, at East Street Records in Seattle, Washington on release day, June 28th. 300 fans got a ticket to the CD-release party at the Hard Rock in Seattle, Washington on June 30th. Video footage of Queensrÿche's performance can be viewed below:

BraveWords.com spoke with Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tate for an extensive feature recently. An excerpt follows:

BraveWords.com: The stages for liking a Queensrÿche record seems to be: pissed off, challenged, and finally appreciation.

Tate: “I kind of look at it like Van Gogh – nobody liked his shit until he died.”

BraveWords.com: And the same can be said for Dedicated To Chaos. I’ve heard some writers say that on the first listen ‘it sucked’, but on the second listen it ‘grew on me’ and by the third listen, ‘wow, what a great album.”

Tate: “That’s like that with me too. I’m a huge BOWIE fan. I like quite a bit of his material and there’s some I don’t like, but there’s a lot of it that I discovered at different points in my life. The songs may be twenty years old and I’m just now going, ‘oh, wow what an incredible song.’ You just have to be in the right headspace for a song to hit you. When Bowie put out that Earthling album, I bought it, put it on and thought, ‘oh, my God – I can’t relate to this at all’. So, I put it away. Six months later at was at the Virgin Megastore in Paris and they had it up on one of the listening stations and I figured, ‘what the hell – I’ll take a listen’ and it hit me. So, I bought another copy of it just so that I could have it with me. I simply can’t think of not having that record now. I like so much of that stuff on it, but at the time I wasn’t ready to hear it. You attach your life to music. It becomes the background music for a given time in your life. If there is an album by a band and you love the entire record (which is rare)… That record is very special to you and anything that comes out after that you compare it to the one that really hit you. So, it takes time for the new music to set in and to become the background music for your life at this given point and honestly some people just don’t progress musically. What they like is the Warning album and that’s all they like from Queensrÿche. That’s cool and I’m glad they like something that we do.”

Read the entire interview here.