{"id":3864,"date":"1988-06-01T00:00:46","date_gmt":"1988-06-01T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2018-05-03T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:14:03","slug":"album-review-queensryche-operation-mindcrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-queensryche-operation-mindcrime\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEENSR\u0178CHE – Operation: Mindcrime (1988) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENSR\u0178CHE
Operation: Mindcrime<\/strong><\/span>
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\nEMI (1988)<\/span>
Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I must admit that I\u2019ve never been a great fan of Queensr\u00ffche. True, I loved their debut EP, but I found their last two albums, The Warning<\/em> and Rage For Order<\/em>, totally tedious, especially the latter which was all atmospheric and lacking in aggression.<\/p>\n

However, with Operation: Mindcrime<\/em> Queensr\u00ffche are an entirely different proposition and have produced one of the best metal concept albums of all-time, that deserves to stand alongside the likes of The Who\u2019s Quadrophenia<\/em> and Pink Floyd\u2019s Dark Side Of The Moon<\/em> for its conceptual brilliance.<\/p>\n

Lyrically, the songs deal with a whole range of subjects, from government manipulation and revolution to the meaning of life in general, with enough twists in the storyline to keep even the most casual listener in suspense until the final moments of the closing track, \u2018Eyes Of A Stranger.\u2019<\/p>\n

Each track is linked together with clever fills and musically Queensr\u00ffche push metal into a whole new dimension with some of the most innovative material to hit vinyl in a long while. \u2018Spreading The Disease\u2019 and \u2018The Mission\u2019 are my particular favourite tracks, the latter having an almost Led Zeppelin<\/a> edge to it. But where bands like the hugely overrated Kingdom Come can take a tried and trusted formula and blatantly rip it off, Queensr\u00ffche succeed by injecting new blood into old ideas and stamping their own authority over them.<\/p>\n

I may have had my doubts about Queensr\u00ffche in the past, but believe me with Operation: Mindcrime<\/em> the Seattle rockers have come as close to perfection as any band is likely to get.<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 28 (1988)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUEENSR\u0178CHEOperation: Mindcrime EMI (1988)Rating: 9.5\/10 I must admit that I\u2019ve never been a great fan of Queensr\u00ffche. True, I loved their debut EP, but I found their last two albums, The Warning and Rage For Order, totally tedious, especially the latter which was all atmospheric and lacking in aggression. However, with Operation: Mindcrime Queensr\u00ffche are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-queensryche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68814,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/68814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}