Era Of Judgement

“I am very adamant about singing the songs in the standard tuning that those songs were recorded in. People want to hear those big notes.”
Todd La Torre

Being a Queensrÿche fan hasn’t always been the easiest task. For this writer, one pivotal moment came when the band played in the UK during their American Soldier tour in 2009. The new album they were promoting was decent enough, but even the most slavish acolytes were left scratching their heads when the Seattle legends routinely played a set that barely touched upon their classic albums Operation: Mindcrime and Empire, let alone any of their much-loved early material.

Admittedly, it had been a number of years since the band, then led by vocalist Geoff Tate, had sounded much like their old, chart-bothering selves. When Tate’s final album with the band, , emerged in 2011, sounding like lots of things but