Queensryche - Rage for Order
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Free Music Review: Queensryche's One True Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
As much as I hear time and again that "Mindcrime" was the Seattle quintet's finest, I always have to argue that this 1986 gem is the pinnacle of their career. While I was a big fan of Mindcrime and it's predecessor "The Warning", Rage For Order is QR's most consistent release and is mezmerising from start to finish. In a word.."perfect".
So few bands can boast having made a perfect album. I can think only of The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper & Revolver to name a few), Pink Floyd (The Wall, Dark Side), Dream Theater (Images & Awake), and Boston (Debut). Rage is an album to be listened to and appreciated. Released in the hey-day of "hair metal", this album has not one single song that lends itself to the tag. None of the songs, while very image provoking, could be easily made into an MTV hit. Although "Gonna Get Close To You" aired on MTV (rarely I might add) it didn't even scratch the surface of this album's potential.
Overall, the performances of each member outshine anything before, or since. DeGarmo and Wilton trade licks masterfully. Rockenfield and Jackson keep a very tight bottom end. Tate...well...Tate was THE metal singer at that time and this was his finest performance.
While the mix was somewhat lacking, the production was incredible. Each song blends into each other perfectly. This was metal that was unique and completely original. I think the term "thinking man's metal" was coined at the time. That said, I can think of no other release at the time to which that term could be applied. Unlike most of their metal contemporaries at the time, Rage was athmospheric, intellectual, and surreal. Rage succeeded where Priest's "Turbo" failed abysmally. It was a stark vision of the future and the metal was more futuristic than we'd ever heard before. It was like listening to a whole new machine. It still holds it's own 20 year later, seeming as fresh and "now" as anything in progressive metal.
Free Music Review: A favorite for a prog and metal fan!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a Queensryche fan and my favorite records are Rage For Order, Operation Mindcrime, Empire and Promised Land. All of the album reflects the fashion of the time but turn this into something fresh and interesting through a musical point of view.
So what's so special about Rage For Order? The answer lies in the original and powerful music that is hard to relate to anything else released on a record of any other group or artist in any genre; it has a sound and vibe that you only can experience by listening to it. Some might make similarities to Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. It would be wrong to say that the influences from these bands doesn't exist but it's turned into something more different and complex.
Every song on this album has something to sing along to and the music I also think is more melodic and musically challenging than what bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and others created during this time and ever since. Can a song be more catchy and pure than Walk in the shadows? Can a chorus be more powerful than the ones in Neue Regel, London, Screaming in digital or Killing Words? Well, nothing beats them in my ears. These guys were purely genious during this time. No wonder Chris De Garmo says that the band are proud of the album still today, even though he isn't a member of the band.
But if I would try to explain Rage For Order it's an album with roots of melodic metal with high, poweful and beutiful vocals, experimenting with technological-cyber-computer science metal and powerful love balads. Well as I said you have to hear it to believe it. Buy Rage For Order, put it on in your car a sunny day and just enjoy. You'll probably see what I mean!
Free Music Review: Classic album, beginning of prog metal and perhaps something more
Hit: 5 Stars
Rage for Order was the album that put Queensryche in the top tier of metal bands, and was also an early release of something that came to be called, progressive metal.
The album features enough all out metal to make any hesher raise their horns in excitement, but also features a cerebral side that would mean so much more in this style of music.
Also Neil Kernon's production, along with Dave "the Rave" Oglivie's mixing and assorted engineering gives this album an almost industrial feel at times, with sythesizers and sampling littered subtly throughout the album.
As the story goes, the band were frequenting goth clubs in Vancouver with Kernon during the making, and listening to bands as wide ranging as Rick Springfield, to, yes Dave the Rave's main gig; Skinny Puppy. The music is a somber mix of the traditional metal that the first album and ep have, with a newfound progressive sensibility (the occasional odd timing and exotic chord progressions) with a subtle Industrial touch, and the subjects range from love in a cyberpunk fashion to vampires.
In other words, the album is ahead of its time, and if you're still reading this review, you should be ashamed if you aren't listening to this already.
And also, this definitely features the best and most impassioned singing of Geoff Tate's entire career, if not in nearly all of metal.
The band's imagery confused people at the time, it was a nearly a cross between "hair metal" and "Victorian gothic" wear that the band was wearing. Surely the annoying image does not at all reflect the greatness of the music.
Free Music Review: attack of the glam-vampires.
Hit: 5 Stars
uh, well it looks to be something of the sort judging by those hilarious bandmembers pictures. Ok, Geoff Tate looks pretty cool.
Queensryche's epic, theatrical metal takes a turn into cyberpunk territory with _Rage for Order_, their second full-length disc. This album picks up where _The Warning_ left off (crunchy guitars, epic melodies and soaring vocals), adding lots of keyboards and a more sombre tenor all in all. Consistent throughout the album, and cohering well with the aural approach of this record, is the dystopian view of technology and the future, with revolutionary speed-metal anthems ("Chemical Youth"), the alienating acoustic ballad on the panopticon society ("I Will Remember"), or echoes of tragedy ("London").
I picked up this remastered version because I was desperately hoping for a dramatic increase in sound quality over the butchery that was the first. The engineer for _Rage for Order_ should have been taken out and forcefully punted down the street. this remastered edition sounds only a little better, but it is an improvement in any case. Best of all, this edition has one particular feature which makes it indispensable (!) for fans of the 'ryche. The acoustic mix of "I Dream in Infrared" is masterful, giving the song much needed breathing room and silent menace. Killer! the other bonus tracks are pretty good.
a classic album made better, if only slightly -- but that "slightly" is pretty snazzy.
Free Music Review: Their BEST album, IMHO
Hit: 5 Stars
I've followed this quintet since The Warning and even with the monumental success of Empire and well-deserved accolades and genius of Mindcrime this release still stands out as a musical milestone for this band and the entire progressive metal genre. Rage has a much more exploratory feel than all of their other efforts and displays this musical brilliance with amazing diversity. From the pure metallic bliss of the opening track "Walk in the Shadows" to the eerily dissonant "Dream in Infrared" this LP is loaded with innovation and intelligence throughout. Other tracks of note are "Killing Words", "Neue Regel", "London", "Screaming in Digital"...and one of my favorite QR tunes "I Will Remember". Even what I consider the weakest cut- "Gonna Get Close to You" actually was the only track to make it to the video realm. Suffice it to say that the essence of this band is captured here like lightning in a bottle and really was the impetus for the Mindcrime effort. This is a MUST have for anyone who appreciates substance in the thick of the glam-metal 1980's.