QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Geoff Tate is featured in a new interview with Ted Hansen at Examiner.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: It’s probably very fitting that your latest album is titled Dedicated to Chaos.

Tate: "It’s a title that can be taken a number of different ways. For me, chaos is that place where creativity exists, you make something out of nothing. This record is definitely a record that is very creative. There are lots of different musical experimentation on it and lots of different types of songs on it. Everyone in the band really threw themselves into it to kind of push our envelope musically to see where we could take our chemistry again."

Q: I realize you’re going to alienate some people who’ll say, well it’s not classic Queensrÿche. But what is classic Queensrÿche if you keep doing stuff different every time?

Tate: "Yeah, exactly. That’s the idea behind it. To constantly grow, change, experiment with our sound and our ability to communicate with each other. To try and create something new each time."

Q: How are the fans reacting on your current tour to your new songs?

Tate: "Actually, real good. New songs never go over as well as older songs of course because people need more time to digest the stuff. Usually the new songs that you are doing do better the next time you come through town because the people know them a lot better and they react to them better. It depends on the performer. It’s kind of your job to sell the new song to people and set it up so they understand what it’s about if you’re hitting them with something they never heard. A back story really helps. I like to set the mood, set the tone and explain what you are thinking about when you are writing it."

Click here for the complete interview.

Queensrÿche's new album, Dedicated To Chaos, landed at #70 on the Billboard 200, selling 8,000 copies in the US in it's first week of release. It landed at #121 on Canada's Top 200, and at #16 on Canada's Top Hard chart.

Dedicated To Chaos was released via Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud on June 28th in North America. The tracklist 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'