Henry Reviews with Matt Totillo - Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime - Episode 4

Henry Reviews with Matt Totillo - Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime - Episode 4

Henry Peralta is joined by his bandmate Matt Totillo from the band Blue Monday (www.bluemonday.net), to review one of the most epic "concept" albums of all time by Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime" - an album from 1988 that was designed as a story in the form of a heavy metal opera.

Operation: Mindcrime is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Queensrÿche.  Originally released on May 3, 1988, the album was reissued on May 6, 2003, with two bonus tracks, and again in 2006 as a deluxe box set.

Operation: Mindcrime is a concept album and a rock opera. Its story follows Nikki, a drug addict who becomes disillusioned with the corrupt society of his time and reluctantly becomes involved with a revolutionary group as an assassin of political leaders.  In January 1989, it ranked at No. 34 on Kerrang! magazine's "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time."

Operation: Mindcrime was Queensrÿche's breakthrough album, reaching number 50 on the Billboard 200 while its singles "Eyes of a Stranger" and "I Don't Believe in Love" served as the band's first charting hits in the United States.  The album was certified by the RIAA as gold in early 1989, and was certified as platinum two years later.  A sequel, Operation: Mindcrime II, was released on April 4, 2006.

Operation: Mindcrime took almost two years to produce, with pre-production beginning as early as the spring of 1987.  The album was recorded digitally on a Sony 24-track digital tape machine, and was also mixed and mastered in the digital format.

The band shot a one-off promotional video in 1988 for the song "Speak" using performance footage.  It did not include a dramatization of any of the story's concepts.  During the tour promoting the 1990 album Empire, Operation: Mindcrime was performed in its entirety.  The stage show featured video, animation and guest singer Pamela Moore as Sister Mary.  A recording was released as Operation: Livecrime.  The story was initially explored in a series of video clips for MTV in the 1989 VHS video, Video: Mindcrime.

To listen to Queensryche "Operation: Mindcrime" click here -- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEouLkiLHdSD5HWr5Iz-fgDz4ssosHrtb&si=vPGT6S46pY6vZvUU  

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