MelodicRock.com report that QUEENSRŸCHE and promoter Chugg Entertainment have announced details of the upcoming Australian tour. The press release reads as follows:

For those of us who experienced the late '80s metal explosion during our teens, Queensrÿche's musical evolution throughout the decade seemed to mirror the growth of our own tastes every album sounded more mature, more bold, more assured. The band's musical horizons were expanding and they were demonstrating a flowering of progressive rock influences an idea which would reach it's fruition with the pending release of the greatest progressive metal concept album of all time...

In the weeks before the 1988 release of Operation: Mindcrime, word of mouth was generating serious momentum; claims were being made that the new record was going to stand alongside such seminal works as RUSH's 2112 and THE WHO's Quadrophenia. In a genre where bombast, theatrics and melodrama was commonplace, nobody had really attempted something on this grand a scale, but if there was one band with both the talent and the ambition to pull it off, it was Queensrÿche.

Operation: Mindcrime stole everyone's thunder. Built around a rich and detailed storyline that would be ludicrous if it weren't so darn engaging (disenchanted young man joins subversive group, becomes political assassin, falls for a hot nun, nails the hot nun, becomes a heroin addict, and is seemingly framed for the hot nun's murder), Mindcrime had Queensrÿche testing its limits, both musically and lyrically.

Eighteen years after Operation: Mindcrime's release, it's now considered one of the finest rock operas ever recorded and universally regarded as one of the greatest metal albums of all time.

Nearly two decades after turning the metal world on its ear by exceeding everybody's lofty expectations, Queensrÿche have released Operation: Mindcrime II. 59 minutes and 10 seconds... the albums duration. This is how long listening pleasure lasts. This is the needed time for that libretto, that "metallic" tragedy to invade our minds, become pictures and colours, sounds and breaths, walk through mercy and fear, hoping for and finally reaching, achieving the "catharsis".

Queensrÿche have built a career based on conscious recording, tireless touring and fierce devotion to their tremendous global fan base. So it is only fair that after countless petitions their thousands of die hard Australian fans finally get to experience the amazing Queensrÿche as they deliver Operation: Mindcrime 1 & 2 live in concert!

The Australian dates are:

July

14 - Melbourne, Australia at The Palace
15 - Sydney, Australia at Luna Park
16 - Brisbane, Australia at The Arena