Can you hear it coming? Queensryche is on tour supporting their twelfth studio album, Dedicated To Chaos. With three decades of music for foundation, they're still building an empire of sound like no other band. Now, on their "30th Anniversary Tour," Queensryche bring their Orwellian warnings of Mindcrime to the North Myrtle Beach House of Blues on Nov. 5.
It didn't take too long for the Bellevue, Washington, quintet of headbangers to morph from the video-driven glam scene of heavy metal -- where they never really seemed to belong -- to the more cerebral, progressive music that would make them a headline act by the late 80s. Queensryche built the concept album Operation: Mindcrime (released in 1988) on back of singer Geoff Tate's powerful vocals, overlaying Michael Wilton and Chris DeGarmo's guitars, and what became the group's signature haunted oracular sound was cemented in that third full-length release. The critical and commercial success of Mindcrime flowed easily into 1990's Empire, their most successful album to date.
Watch Queensryche's "Empire" video.
Empire would go on to sell over 3 million units and produced the band's only Top 10 song to hit the Billboard charts ("Silent Lucidity," No. 9). Overall, the band has placed eight of their studio albums and one live work, (1991's Operation LIVEcrime) within the Billboard 200's Top 50 albums, with Promised Land, the follow-up to Empire, peaking the highest at No. 3.
The band would return to world of the Mindcrime album and release Operation: Mindcrime II in 2006, continuing the story of the political revolutionary drug-addicted assassin Nikki, who, after being imprisoned for the murder of a prostitute/nun, plots revenge against the diabolical Dr. X.
On the "30th Anniversary Tour" the operatic-ranged Geoff Tate and his band mates are still building their innovative music empire thirty years on. With four of the five original members (besides Tate, Michael Wilton (guitars), Eddie Jackson (bass), Scott Rockenfeld (drums); Parker Lundgren fills the second guitar spot once held by DeGarmo), the band will reconstruct Nikki's musical dystopic world at the House of Blues along with selected fan favorites and new music from the recently released Dedicated To Chaos.
Myrtle Beach's own Circles In Autumn will open for the veteran metal rockers.
Doors for the concert open at 7:30 p.m. The show begins at 8:30. Tickets are priced at $31 ($34 day of show) for general admission to $59.50 - $74.50 for reserved seating. The House of Blues is located at 4640 Highway 17 S. in North Myrtle Beach.
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