QUEENSRŸCHE - Audio Samples For Entire New Album Online
May 16, 2011, 13 years ago
QUEENSRŸCHE's new album, Dedicated To Chaos, will be released via their new deal with Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud on June 28th in North America. Other territories will be announced soon.
Audio samples for the album tracks can be heard at this location.
The band will premier Dedicated To Chaos on US syndicated radio show Rockline on Wednesday, June 29th. The program airs at 8:30 PM (PT) / 11:30 PM (ET). Fans are encouraged to speak with the guests by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625). For a station near you and for information regarding how to log onto the internet for the broadcast go to RocklineRadio.com.
The official Dedicated To Chaos tracklisting has been revealed below:
'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'
He did issue one suggestion to listeners as well, saying: “Enjoy – headphones are a must.”
The band - featuring singer Geoff Tate, guitarist Michael Wilton, bassist Eddie Jackson, drummer Scott Rockenfield and guitarist Parker Lundgren - is currently planning a tour in support of the new opus, which was recorded in it's native Seattle. Tour dates and information will be released when available.
The band is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and Dedicated To Chaos marks a new and riveting chapter in Queensrÿche’s already impressive history that fans will not want to miss. And the chaos has just begun.
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. Check out studio photos below:
Queensrÿche frontman Geoff Tate is shooting VH1's Metal Evolution at Pondera winery in Woodinville, WA on this Tuesday, May 17th and then attending a special wine tasting there afterwords at 4 PM. Fans are invited to come down and mingle with Tate as well as taste some of the most fantastic wines that Pondera has to offer.
Metal Evolution: The Series - set to air in spring 2011 - is produced by Banger Films, the Toronto based film production company which has produced films such as Metal: A Headbangers' Journey, Global Metal, IRON MAIDEN: Flight 666 and most recently the RUSH documentary, Beyond The Lighted Stage.
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