{"id":3490,"date":"2011-08-19T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2011-08-19T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:20:01","slug":"queensryche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/queensryche\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEENSR\u0178CHE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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QUEENSR\u0178CHE<\/h1>\n

Three decades of envelope-pushing hard rock\u2014and they\u2019re just picking up speed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On the opening track of\u00a0Dedicated to Chaos<\/em>, Queensr\u00ffche\u2019s 12th and most recent album, frontman Geoff Tate sings, \u201cYou ain\u2019t seen nothing yet\/We\u2019re just picking up speed.\u201d Though \u201cGet Started\u201d is ostensibly a love song, that lyric could easily be applied to the progressive-metal band itself, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The group\u2019s ongoing success, Tate believes, owes to its willingness to take chances. \u201cOur operating plan from the beginning was to always push musical boundaries, to do different things and not be afraid of going on a limb musically,\u201d Tate says. \u201cWhatever moved us, that\u2019s what we\u2019d go for.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years Queensr\u00ffche has been inspired to make two concept records and a covers album. Chaos<\/em> finds them moving away from the rigid formats of those projects. \u201cWe wanted to stretch out from making concept albums,\u201d Tate says, \u201cand write a collection of songs that had no interconnection other than having our musical stamp on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The core members of Queensr\u00ffche\u2014Tate, drummer Scott Rockenfield, bass player Eddie Jackson and guitarist Michael Wilton\u2014have remained in place since the group\u2019s inception in 1981. The four have resisted stagnation by employing a series of second guitarists, a role that currently belongs to Parker Lundgren. \u201cWe\u2019ve always liked working with different people,\u201d Tate says. \u201cThat keeps things fresh, to bring in another personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tate approaches songwriting like a\u00a0full-time job, working in his studio five days a week, \u201clike going to the office.\u201d When he\u2019s not punching a time card in front of a console, Tate remains creative in a nonmusical field: The wine connoisseur developed his own brand, Insania, which recently released its third vintage. Though \u201cmetal ringleader\u201d and \u201cwinemaker\u201d appear to be disparate career paths, Tate finds similarities. I see grapes as musical notes,\u201d he says. \u201cYou take notes and form them into chords that are pleasing to the senses, just like taking different kinds of grapes to form a pleasing blend. It\u2019s a little inspiration and a lot of craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

After three decades, Queensr\u00ffche remains short on neither inspiration nor craftsmanship. \u201cI love making new music, I love being in the studio, I love writing and I really love playing live,\u201d Tate says. \u201cI hope we can still continue to do that as the years pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Juli Thanki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUEENSR\u0178CHE Three decades of envelope-pushing hard rock\u2014and they\u2019re just picking up speed On the opening track of\u00a0Dedicated to Chaos, Queensr\u00ffche\u2019s 12th and most recent album, frontman Geoff Tate sings, \u201cYou ain\u2019t seen nothing yet\/We\u2019re just picking up speed.\u201d Though \u201cGet Started\u201d is ostensibly a love song, that lyric could easily be applied to the progressive-metal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2420,2421,1634,2419,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}