Vocalist Geoff Tate (QUEENSRŸCHE) is featured in a new interview with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt is available below:

Jeb: Let’s talk Kings & Thieves. Unlike many albums with Queensrÿche, this is not a concept album.

Geoff: "It is just a solo rock album. It was a fun album to make and it was a really creative time with the guys that put this together with me. It was a really enjoyable time because I got to work at my own pace.

I am kind of a workaholic. When I have an idea I just roll with it. This record was very immediate and very raw. It was very unrehearsed and sort of just capturing the moment. A lot of the music was written and recorded at the same time. A lot of what you hear were second and third takes and I like that. My experience in the past was that it took years to make records and that can limit your excitement about it. We would go over the songs with a fine tooth comb. This record was a whole different animal."

Jeb: When you are being this spontaneous how can you be critical of what you are doing?

Geoff: "I don’t know if it really needs to be critiqued. I am at a point where I don’t want to think too much. I want to just go with what feels right and what is interesting to me. I put away the logic for a while and decided to not analyze things to the umpth degree. I just wanted to let it all out. I didn’t want to have to follow somebody else’s rules.

I am really against definitions. I am sick of the genrefacation of music where you have all of these lines around you like you’re in a box. I don’t want to do that anymore. I don’t care how people categorize it as that is their own game. I make this music for me.

Jeb: Record stores used to have the rock section and it would have both JUDAS PRIESTand SIMON & GARFUNKEL in the same section.

Geoff: "Exactly, that’s the generation that we grew up in. It was a wonderful time where there were not any limitations on the art. Rock music could be anything. Rock could incorporate any musical style in the world. Somewhere in the ‘90’s it changed as people became obsessed with putting things in categories."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Tate's new solo album, Kings & Thieves, is out today (November 6th) in North America. Watch the video below:

Audio samples of all tracks featured on Kings & Thieves are available via Amazon.de. Click here to check them out.

Kings & Thieves will be Tate's first solo album in more than a decade, and his debut release for InsideOut Music. The album is available for pre-order via Amazon.com using the widget at the bottom of the page.

As one of the most well-known and respected vocalists in the history of hard rock and heavy metal, Geoff Tate has sold over 20 million records and received four Grammy nominations.

Tracklisting:

'She Slipped Away'

'Take A Bullet'

'In The Dirt'

'Say U Luv It'

'The Way I Roll'

'Tomorrow'

'Evil'

'Dark Money'

'These Glory Days'

'Change'

'Waiting'