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Queensryche firms up summer road plans
Queensryche has set up a late-summer tour in support of its upcoming album, "Operation Mindcrime II," the sequel to the band's 1988 concept album.
The new album, only the band's third release since the departure of founding guitarist Chris Degarmo in 1997, is set to hit stores April 4, although the tour supporting it won't get started until Aug. 25, when Queensryche hits the stage in Lake Buena Vista, FL, for the first of two shows there.
The band will then canvass the southern states before finishing out a winding tour map that takes it through most large markets in the country, and well into the month of October. On-sale dates for most of the shows are yet to be announced, although tickets for some of the concerts are available through the band's fanclub. Details are available on the band's website.
Although "Operation Mindcrime II" is Queensryche's first album of new material since 2003's "Tribe," the band has been previewing material from the new, 17-track album in concert since the winter of 2004.
Frontman and chief songwriter Geoff Tate, in a press release, said the current political and social climate inspired him to revisit the "Operation Mindcrime" storyline.
"I left the original open-ended with the intent to come back with a sequel to finish the story up," he said. "Considering where we are today and how little things have changed, it was too ironic not to continue the story."
