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Queensryche tours with Judas Priest, headlines in fall
Currently holding down the opening slot on Judas Priest 's summer tour, prog-rockers Queensryche have inked a headlining run for the fall.
The group, which is on the road with Priest through mid-July, launches its own tour in mid-September. The itinerary is front-loaded with a number of Canadian stops, followed by a series of U.S. dates that, so far, stretch into mid-October.
The run will precede the release of the band's next album, "Operation: Mindcrime II," its sequel to 1988's "Operation: Mindcrime." The new set is due out this winter, according to group's website.
Singer Geoff Tate recently told Pennsylvania's Hershey Chronicle a little bit about the album.
"It's a very long record," he said. "It's very story-driven. It begins 18 years after the end of the first record, with [main character] Nikki being in prison. It's a study of revenge--what it is and what it does to someone."
Tate also told the paper that the group is road testing a couple of tracks from the forthcoming album during the current tour with Judas Priest.
Aside from the not-yet-released material, Queensryche is limiting its setlist during the Priest tour to songs from its first four albums--1984's "The Warning," 1986's "Rage for Order," 1988's "Operation:Mindcrime" and 1990's "Empire"--according to the group's publicist.
