{"id":14096,"date":"2013-06-25T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=14096"},"modified":"2014-01-01T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:48:32","slug":"feature-queensryche-06-13-pt2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/feature-queensryche-06-13-pt2\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEENSR\u0178CHE – Vindication, Part Two (June 2013) | Features \/ Interviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The vocalist appreciates the significance of his new-found position. \u201cLook, it\u2019s a once in a lifetime opportunity, to be the singer for Queensr\u00ffche,\u201d he appraises. \u201cLet\u2019s be honest, though. This is art that we\u2019re creating, and we\u2019re doing it for the love of it and for the passion of it. So yeah, of course it would have affected the level of my commitment or love or care. Maybe I wouldn\u2019t have spent as much time on something if I felt it was going to be dismissed. So yes, it would have affected my involvement. I think it would be foolish for me to deny that it would\u2019ve had some type of psychological impact, which would\u2019ve resulted in a performance issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes back around to what I was saying earlier, about the musical chemistry and everything,\u201d Scott supplements. \u201cOne thing that we wanted to revisit that was important to us was that camaraderie, and that equal working relationship and feeling that we had back in the early days. Just because Todd, and even Parker for that matter, are considered the new guys… Me and the rest of us, we didn\u2019t want to be, \u2018It\u2019s us, and the new guys are joining us.\u2019 It was more like, \u2018Listen, we know we can work together, so let\u2019s bring back the reason why it was so great for us in the past. Let\u2019s just work it into this new relationship.\u2019 It was all very easy, and very transparent. Nothing is contrived on this new album; not one musical note was forced, or contrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effort\u2019s lyrical preoccupations are of a personal nature. \u201cEach song has its own meaning,\u201d Todd ponders. \u201cIt\u2019s not a conceptual album per se, but I guess if you analyze the lyrics from all of the songs, maybe you would find that the majority of them are about moving forward in life. Some of the lyrics are kind of autobiographical as well; some of them are a compilation of all of our lives, and maybe some personal things that we\u2019ve been through, and just moving forward in life. Not all of the songs are about that, but a lot of the energy is about moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mixing duties fell to James Barton, who had previously mixed Operation: Mindcrime<\/em>, Empire<\/em>, and Promised Land<\/em>. \u201cListen, our goal was to make a new record and get back to what we felt we were doing best back in our great time period \u2013 from the EP all the way up until Promised Land<\/em>,\u201d Scott reminds. \u201cThose first six records for us were a great, defining moment. For me, they\u2019re still the strongest things that I think we\u2019ve ever done, and that I like and enjoy, etcetera. We started making this new one, and working on it. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the time came we were ready to start recording \u2013 or we were gonna be \u2013 we thought \u2018What do we wanna do? How do we wanna work with somebody?\u2019 Jimbo was the first guy that came up. I actually sat here, and said \u2018Let\u2019s do the record with Jimbo.\u2019 They all looked at me, like \u2018Wow, I haven\u2019t really thought about that, but what a great concept.\u2019 We hadn\u2019t spoken to him for 15 years. Anyway, it brought us back around to that great time period when he did Mindcrime<\/em> and Empire<\/em>, and even Promised Land<\/em>. The sound of those records has always been a great thing for the band, and we were excited to get back to that type of sound, to be honest. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve strayed from that in the last few years. The music thing has been a struggle with Geoff and everything, so for us to get back with Jimbo was a perfect match. He was an amazing creative addition. On those last records that we did with him back in those days, he was a great part of why those records became what they did both creatively and in terms of the sound of them. It was perfect. He was really excited about the new songs that we sent to him when we first started talking about this. We just knew that it would be perfect, and it really became that. We were great friends. He\u2019s just a great driving force, and I think the record took on a brand new life once we started recording with Jimbo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The drummer attributes clarity as the strength behind Barton\u2019s mixes. \u201cI think he\u2019s really good at making sure that everything that we each do within the song \u2013 the drums, the guitars, and everything \u2013 can all be heard,\u201d he compliments. \u201cAt least that\u2019s what it does for me. I love the clarity he gets. We\u2019ve got some music that\u2019s definitely got intricate stuff contained in the compositions that we write, and he\u2019s just good at making sure that it all sounds good and blends everything well. I like that about him. I think he gets a really great, powerful sound for us. Mindcrime<\/em> and Empire<\/em> especially, those are big, defining records in our career, and I think a lot of that has to do with just the sound. <\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people really liked the way those records sounded. For us, like I said, we just wanted to get back to that again, and put Queensr\u00ffche back on its feet with what we felt it should\u2019ve been doing. I think that\u2019s a great thing Jimbo brings, but he also brings massive creativity within that as well, and great suggestions of stuff that he hears in the songs, and in the content of what we\u2019re playing. It\u2019s kind of an overall picture, but I think clarity is a great thing that I would mention for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Self-titling the record was a natural decision. \u201cWe had already tried to figure out what to do, and what the record meant to us,\u201d Scott recalls. \u201cAt the final time when we figured we needed to come up with an album title, it was the first thing that actually came to mind. We were sitting in my studio at my house, all of the guys in the band. We were looking at each other to either come up with a name of something, like a subtitle to go underneath the band name. Nothing felt right. Anyway, I guess to cut a long story short, we\u2019re Queensr\u00ffche. We feel like we\u2019re Queensr\u00ffche, and we just felt that it was the best way to just establish that we\u2019re kind of back, and we\u2019re Queensr\u00ffche. We had never actually had a self-titled full-length record in our past, so it kind of ties us back around to the EP where we did self-title it. That was a new beginning then, and this is a new beginning as well for us now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cover artwork responsibilities were undertaken by Craig Howell, who had previously designed pieces related to science fiction franchise Star Wars<\/em>. \u201cThe concept of self-titling was a simple thing,\u201d the rhythmist reiterates. \u201cIt keeps it simple. It\u2019s an easy thing for us to explain, and everything. That\u2019s kind of what we really wanted to do with the artwork as well, which is just get back to establishing the band in the simplest form. I guess what I mean by that is… That symbol on the front, we call it the Tri-Ryche. We\u2019ve had it since our early days. It\u2019s been our moniker and our logo for a long time, and it just felt the best thing to get that thing back to where it should\u2019ve been. The artwork that we\u2019ve done in the last few years has not really been a collective, agreed upon effort, so Michael, Eddie, and I just wanted to do that. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe started having conversations with Craig, and Craig by the way is a great artist. He works with George Lucas on a lot of the Star Wars<\/em> stuff, and all of these other really great tie-in things. His enthusiasm was just really great; he\u2019s a fan, but he also knew exactly what we were trying to achieve. Like I said, it\u2019s simple. You see the band name, and you see the Tri-Ryche on the album cover. Hopefully that draws attention, and it just once again makes the point that we\u2019re Queensr\u00ffche. Here we are. We\u2019re not here to cloud anything, or make a busy artwork, and stuff like that, I guess. Sometimes you can go too far, but it just felt easy. It was easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Various footage promoting the full-length exists. \u201cWe haven\u2019t really done a video, I guess,\u201d Scott considers. \u201cWe\u2019ve got songs out there that just have static imagery, like from the artwork that\u2019s on the record. They\u2019re like teasers. We\u2019ve done the songs \u2018Redemption\u2019, and \u2018Where Dreams Go To Die\u2019. They\u2019re just on the Century Media website, on YouTube, and stuff. It\u2019s just basically so that the fans can hear the music. An official video was filmed at the Rock Hard festival in Germany. We filmed that gig and we played the song \u2018Fallout\u2019, so \u2018Fallout\u2019 is the first official single that actually has a live video that we did. It\u2019s not a fan video \u2013 it\u2019s an actual one that we did. We\u2019re gonna do more, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

The possibility of filming storyboard-driven music videos is being discussed. \u201cI think as time goes, we\u2019re looking at all sorts of different interesting things,\u201d the percussionist contemplates. \u201c\u2018Fallout\u2019 seemed to be a good choice to do a live video for, which also gives the fans a chance to see us live if they haven\u2019t yet. We can use social media and everything, and people can see what the band is doing. However, \u2018Redemption\u2019 has been done. When we made the record in the last six months, we had a video crew with us the entire time. No matter where we were recording, we filmed everything \u2013 we\u2019ve got the whole making of the record. \u2018Redemption\u2019 is all sorts of video clips from the making of the record, and now we\u2019re gonna be looking at the next songs we\u2019re gonna do as singles as the months go on so to speak. I think there\u2019ll be some conceptual videos that we\u2019re gonna look at doing \u2013 some fun storyline stuff, and everything. <\/p>\n

\u201cI guess my point is it\u2019s actually exciting, because we haven\u2019t had the support from a label that\u2019s wanted to let us do videos. Budgets were included, and it costs money to do the right ones. For what it\u2019s worth, Century Media is digging in deep with us and letting us have fun again doing that. I think it\u2019s cool, because the fans are really gonna enjoy it. It\u2019s a fun new thing for us now that we can play around with, and use to present our songs to people. I think it\u2019s gonna help us, and I think the fans are gonna love it. You must enjoy that stuff as a fan of everything. I do; I love seeing that stuff, when bands get the opportunity to do more than just the iPhone videos of their shows every night. That\u2019s boring for the fans, I think. There\u2019s too much of those fan videos. They\u2019re great, but there\u2019s just so much of it. It\u2019s nice to be able to do something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that the group had inked a record contract with Century Media was revealed on March 4th, 2013. \u201cIt was a cool thing,\u201d Scott enthuses. \u201cConversations just started to happen. It was a few months ago, when we were still in the recording process. Our management basically started to look at what they could find for us, and present to us. Century Media was actually one of the first ones, and one of the only ones. The guys over there were so enthusiastic about our record, and about the band and what the band was doing. We then moved on to the live shows. They just started talking to us, and they were so enthusiastic that they just wouldn\u2019t give up. They offered us a deal, and it was such a great thing. They\u2019re great people, so we just said \u2018Yes.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great label. You know Century Media probably more than I do, but they\u2019re just a great global label that represents the music that we want to be surrounded by. It\u2019s a better label for Queensr\u00ffche right now. Like I said, they\u2019re greatly enthusiastic and we feel really honoured. It\u2019s gonna be a lot of fun to see how this all goes. We talk to them every day. They\u2019re so involved with what we\u2019re doing; I\u2019m answering 30 emails a day from them about marketing plans, and things that are happening. It\u2019s quite exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preceding the issue of Queensr\u00ffche\u2019s eponymous long-player by a month was the 25th anniversary of Operation: Mindcrime<\/em>, originally released in May 1988. Nowadays, the effort is considered a landmark opus from the band. \u201cWhen we were doing it, we never thought it would be anything like that,\u201d the sticksman concedes. \u201cIt was just something that we were having fun making and doing. My God, I\u2019ll never know. I think there are a lot of great things about it that have lasted for so long. The story that we put together for the concept of the whole record, and the music that supported it that we were writing at the time \u2013 the energy behind this in our personal lives, but also in the band as well. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were really on fire at that point. We just really dug deep, and I think you get all of those elements of just great energy going together, and great ideas. It came out in the record I guess, and maybe that\u2019s where you get longevity. You know as well as I do, that record\u2019s not like a normal record at the time. That was 1988, and at the time the record company wanted us to make hits like all of the bands in the LA area were doing. It was an easy sell, but we went in the other direction and made a record that was completely unlike that. Although it became extremely successful, it almost died. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll give you a fun story that you might find interesting. Three months or so after the record had come out, it was going down. We were touring it and promoting it by playing shows and everything, but weren\u2019t getting any videos accepted. Radio wasn\u2019t really tuning into any of the songs on the record either. I remember our management gave us a phone call, and they said like \u2018Listen, it\u2019s just not going as well as we were hoping. Keep touring and stuff, but we should think about making another record here in a while.\u2019 Then right after that, things just turned around. We got a hit on MTV<\/em> \u2013 \u2018Eyes Of A Stranger\u2019 or something like that came out. At that point, there was no stopping it. Anyway, that\u2019s kind of a fun story. <\/p>\n

\u201cListen, thank gosh that it\u2019s lasted for so long. We\u2019re fortunate to have a legacy of all of our material, but definitely a legacy of a few of our records really standing out for a long time. We\u2019re blessed. Not too many bands can say that they\u2019ve achieved that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Operation: Mindcrime<\/em> would seem logical. \u201cYou know how I was talking about things to do, and what\u2019s coming up, and what our years mean to us,\u201d Scott acknowledges. \u201cWe don\u2019t have any defined things that we\u2019re talking about doing, but there are always conversations about things going on. To be honest, most of our focus right now is on just the new record \u2013 all of the time we\u2019re spending to promote it right now. We then have tours that are coming up. We signed a huge deal recently with a brand new booking agent, one of the big, A-list global booking agents. They\u2019re so excited to have us, and that\u2019s going to open up massive opportunities. All things can happen, but our focus is the new record and everything else at least at this point right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

A live outing commemorating the platter\u2019s 25th anniversary would serve as an appropriate stop-gap release between the issue of Queensr\u00ffche\u2019s eponymous record, and its eventual successor. \u201cIt\u2019d be totally fun, to be honest, doing a whole live version of Mindcrime<\/em>, but with our new guy Todd doing it with us,\u201d the percussionist agrees. \u201cI think we could have fun with something like that, and like you said, use it as a release for later on in 2013 or somewhere early in 2014 as a tip of the hat to our Mindcrime<\/em> legacy. Any of that is totally possible. We\u2019re actually playing quite a bit of those songs in and out of our set now, and we\u2019ve even done \u2018Suite Sister Mary\u2019 with our gal Pam \u2013 Pamela Moore who sang on the original back then. She\u2019s great. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of drama that goes on in our Queensr\u00ffche world, but she\u2019s been really supportive of what Michael, Eddie, and I chose to do in 2012 \u2013 she\u2019s totally on our side. We\u2019ve had a lot of fun with her. We\u2019ve done some shows in the last six months where she\u2019s just come onstage, and been a guest with us on a few of those songs. Our fans sure enjoy it when she comes out and sings with us. Like I said, we\u2019re learning all that stuff, and we kind of know it all. It\u2019s just a matter of making it a big thing at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Operation: Mindcrime II<\/em> arrived in March 2006, but experienced a lukewarm reception. \u201cWe all do things in our lives for whatever reason at the time,\u201d Scott reflects. \u201cIf I had chosen a different path, Mindcrime II<\/em> may not have ever come to fruition. I\u2019m not sure it was… Listen, we just weren\u2019t all involved. It was a weird time. That\u2019s when the beginning of the struggle with our relationship with Geoff started to happen, to be honest. I guess my best answer is I\u2019d rather talk about Mindcrime I<\/em> than talk about Mindcrime II<\/em>, if you get my drift (laughs). I\u2019m just trying to be honest. I was a part of everything. I don\u2019t like to downplay any part of our career, but the strength of our career to me has always been from the EP up until Promised Land<\/em>. Once again, with our new record, I think that\u2019s why we revisited that legacy of ours and made new songs that felt new, but also felt like they belonged in that time period for us. That\u2019s what I\u2019d rather talk about (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n

Noticeably absent was the songwriting contributions of erstwhile guitarist Chris DeGarmo, who had parted ways with Queensr\u00ffche in late 1997. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing,\u201d the drummer recognises. \u201cYou know as well as I do, it\u2019s kind of like maybe in films. It\u2019s an industry that we all love, because we all see films. You either get a great sequel that actually makes sense, or you get one that\u2019s almost… If it\u2019s not done correctly or with the same intent, then it starts distracting even from the first one I guess in kind of a subtle way. You\u2019ve gotta tread lightly \u2013 I totally agree with you. Like I said, I\u2019m glad that Mindcrime I<\/em> still stands and that it\u2019s been around for that long. I hope that it lasts for another 25 years, and that we can be just talking about Mindcrime I<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The topic of Operation: Mindcrime<\/em> generally sparks discussion as to whether the concept will ever become a trilogy. \u201cNow you\u2019re digging deep,\u201d Scott laughs. \u201cLike I said, I guess anything is possible, but it\u2019s not something that I would ever even consider right now to be honest. Like I said, how far does the story need to go? I think the fun thing for us \u2013 and I\u2019ve already been discussing some of this with Todd \u2013 is we\u2019re already working on new music together right now for another release down the road here soon. It\u2019s fun for us. We\u2019ve talked about concepts, and maybe doing some fun stuff of which we\u2019ve done in the past. As opposed to doing Mindcrime III<\/em>, maybe we\u2019ll just do something really cool that we haven\u2019t done yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

While authoring a third instalment hasn\u2019t been ruled out altogether, its emergence is unlikely. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever going to be a possibility, to be honest,\u201d the rhythmist feels. \u201cI don\u2019t think our fans want it. A lot of people were on the fence with Mindcrime II<\/em>, so to attempt Mindcrime III<\/em> I think would be pretty ridiculous. To be honest, if we did, then it would be the band doing it, and that\u2019s where the huge difference would be. By comparison, II<\/em> was Geoff and a bunch of other people writing music, and him forcing it all on us. That would never be the case, so at least Mindcrime III<\/em> would be the band doing it, and that all of a sudden to me becomes a little bit more valid. We could call it Mindcrime 1.5<\/em> instead of II<\/em>; we could make this the one that came out before II<\/em>, but after I<\/em>. It should\u2019ve been with the band doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A unique moniker would perhaps strengthen the eminence of a sequel. \u201cHow about we make a prequel that goes before Mindcrime<\/em> started?,\u201d Scott queries. \u201cNow we\u2019re onto something,\u201d he chuckles.<\/p>\n

Being perceived as financially exploiting the property would be a valid concern. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing you\u2019ve got to be careful about with doing things like that, like a sequel to a really big project that you\u2019ve done in your history,\u201d the sticksman understands. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be careful that you\u2019re not doing it for money and all that, because the fans will know all that. If it\u2019s not heartfelt and doesn\u2019t mean something, they\u2019ll know all of that. I think that\u2019s a thin line that you\u2019ve got to be careful about, that you\u2019re doing it with integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fresh Queensr\u00ffche material is currently being penned, meanwhile. \u201cWe have quite a bit of stuff that is written, to be honest,\u201d Scott divulges. \u201cIt\u2019s not collectively and solidly, but we have so many ideas that we\u2019re ready to start digging in on. That\u2019s where the fun actually is, because we\u2019re like a feeding frenzy of sharks. When that happens, it\u2019s pretty cool. That\u2019s the stage that we\u2019re at now, that there\u2019s so much now for us to dig in on. That\u2019s where it all starts to happen, and it happens pretty quickly once we feel something that\u2019s going on like that. It\u2019s cool, and that\u2019s kind of the stage we\u2019re at. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it could be similar to the new album, and something new \u2013 new lyrical ideas. There could be a concept… You never know. You can have a cool concept, and a cool story that we might come up with. Musically, I think we\u2019re ready to just start pushing ourselves even beyond what we\u2019ve done just now on this new one. We\u2019re gonna be working on it like I said, because we\u2019re ready to do it again. It was so fun just this last time. The energy was so fun; we kind of miss not being in the same room, and doing it all again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queensr\u00ffche<\/em> was released on June 24th, 2013 in Europe and subsequently on the 25th in North America, all via Century Media Records.<\/p>\n

Interview published in June 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n

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