QUEENSRYCHE LAUNCH “BUILDING THE EMPIRE” – A NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER VIA PLEDGEMUSIC
A newly revitalized Queensrÿche have partnered with PledgeMusic.com for a new album pre-order campaign entitled Building The Empire.
Eddie Jackson, Todd LaTorre, Parker Lundgren, Scott Rockenfield and Michael Wilton will offer fans various unique experiences to bring them closer to the band than ever before. The band is offering everything from limited edition vinyl and merchandise to the actual instruments played on the upcoming album and a chance to hang with the band in their hometown of Seattle. The album pre-order as well as all of these other items and experiences can be found at www.pledgemusic.com/queensryche.
“For the first time in the history of Queensrÿche, we are doing something we have never done before,” states bassist Eddie Jackson. In conjunction with the PledgeMusic.com pre-order, Queensrÿche has created an opportunity for accredited investors to purchase a stake in Queensrÿche Holdings, LLC. This stake will allow select investors that meet certain financial requirements to share in all of the profits the band makes moving forward. This opportunity is being offered on a limited basis; interested parties should go www.queensrycheofficial.com/investment for more information and to begin the investor accreditation process. Watch the trailer below.
Queensrÿche has recently begun writing music for their new album that is slated for release in Spring 2015. This release marks the band’s second album with Century Media as well as the second album with new vocalist Todd LaTorre. This release will be the follow up to their self-titled 2013 release which debuted on Billboard’s Top 200 chart landing at #23 and selling 13,659 copies its first week. That album received critical acclaim including Billboard magazine’s review stating: “From the moment Rockenfield’s drums and Wilton and Parker Lundgren’s guitars go on the attack in “Where Dreams Go to Die,” the traditional Queensrÿche sound is back. The hooks are arresting, and the rhythm section packs unmitigated fire power.” Sites such as Metal Underground proclaimed: “The band has brought back much of the direction that made it one of the most revered in progressive/power metal history,” and BraveWords.com exclaims: “This self-titled slab of faith-restoring metal boasts the return of the almighty riff, twin guitar leads, and brazen in-your-face melodies.”
Queensrÿche first burst onto the music scene in 1982 with the release of their self-titled 4 song EP Queensrÿche. They very quickly gained international recognition and performed to sold out audiences around the world. With the follow up first full-length album The Warning in 1984, and the ground breaking 1986 release of Rage For Order, Queensrÿche continued to prove their worldwide dominance as one of the most respected and creative bands of the 80’s. In 1988 the band turned out yet another monumental album Operation: Mindcrime, which would go on to become one of the TOP 10 best selling concepts records of all time, and set the stage for continued sold out performances around the world. With the release of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful “Empire” in 1991, the band earned multiple Grammy Award nominations and won the MTV “viewer’s choice” award for the #1 chart topping hit “Silent Lucidity”. During the next ten years, the band continued to release albums and tour the world to sold-out audiences. Queensrÿche has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and have continued to break new ground and push their creative process.
Queensrÿche is Todd La Torre (vocals), Michael Wilton (guitars), Parker Lundgren (guitars), Eddie Jackson (bass) and Scott Rockenfield (drums).
Queensrÿche on the web:
queensrycheofficial.com
facebook.com/QueensrycheOfficial
pledgemusic.com/queensryche
queensrycheofficial.com/investment
Out of all the bands from that time that still have all the original members, I wish QR was one of them!
If Geoff Tate is not a member, it’s NOT Queensryche.
Or degarmo
I too wish that Chris Degarmo was still in the band, but I am not as disappointed about Geoff Tate. After Chris left the band, it seemed that Geoff started taking the band in directions that just didn’t work. He seemed to take on a leadership role, with his wife becoming the band manager. His album with “his version” of QR after the break up totally sucked!! In contrast the true QR album with new singer La Torre was the best QR album since Promised Land. He sounds alot like Geoff Tate did back in the day, prior to Geoff’s voice going to hell. And the band got back to the classic QR sound. Really looking forward to the new album!
Here we go again. If so and so is not a member, it’s NOT so and so.
LaTorre is awesome and the Ryche release with him is way better than ANYTHING Tate released since Hear in the Now Frontier (which was 50/50 at best)….I do believe they lost a LOT of that special creativity when DeGarmo left but some of it seems to have returned…
It was not QR WITH Geoff in the band. They really had no choice but to fire him as he had become impossible to work with, and the finances were not doing well. Todd has helped them bring back their old sound that made them in the first place.
This is an interesting concept. Not sure how I feel about it as a fan, but from a business perspective it’s very intriguing. The trailer was very well done also. Kudos to their marketing team. Looking forward to the new album.
Does anybody actually see this band and actually think it is Queensryche?
Seen both versions live and neither is the Queensryche we all grew up with……
I do. Unlike others I refuse to remain stuck in the past.
Now that we have ONE Queensryche instead of two as decided in court, I’m glad it worked out this way. This version w/ La Torre on vocals has a real future. Their last album was their best in more years than can be counted, probably since “Promised Land” in terms of the classic-trademark ‘Reich sound. Although, I admit I did like “Mindcrime II” quite a lot. The last Tate-related project under the Q’Reich name was half-baked at best; face it – should’ve been called the “Geoff Tate All-Stars”. The one before that “Dedicated to Chaos” was horrible! I’ve never heard of a band so consciously trying NOT to sound like their true selves. The Tate trifecta of Geoff-Wife-Daughter control would’ve destroyed the band given another album like that. And hey, if we actually get a “Mindcrime” movie out of all this, now that Tate has sole ownership of that, it’s a win-win for all. As long as Hollywood doesn’t water it down for a mass audience. Let Rob Zombie direct it, then we’ll see something! Yes, I realize my rant doesn’t have that much to do with this particular article but I’ve been needing to get this shit off my chest for a while; what better place to do it?
meh, I thought the LaTorre Queensryche album was a little weak, and certainly did deserve all the glowing accolades heaped upon it. They sounded like a Queensryche cover band trying to relive the 80’s.