QUEENSRŸCHE's official web site has been updated with the following message:

"Word from the Campaign is that there are a lot of projects going on while the band's touring in support of 'Operation: Mindcrime II'. For example... while the band has been on the road they have been busy writing new material for the next QUEENSRŸCHE record. The band is also gearing up for a new live double disc that's to be recorded and released this fall. All signs point to a 'Operation: LIVECrime II' with Disc 1 being a live production of 'Mindcrime' and Disc 2 being a live production of 'Mindcrime II'... but only time will tell. Hopefully, if/when Rhino gets around to releasing this, they'll put some bonus material on it as well ... like the music video?

"Geoff Tate has two solo projects in the works. We know at least one of them is a collaboration with Michael Wilton on a BEATLES tribute and the other is a big secret. Why a such a secret you ask? Well, could it be another concept album? A resurrection of the 3 TREMORS? Perhaps both? We do know that both the new QUEENSRŸCHE album and Geoff Tate solo projects are to include some very special guests.

"Mindcrime at the Moore" track listing:

Disc 1:

01. I Remember Now
02. Anarchy-X
03. Revolution Calling
04. Operation: Mindcrime
05. Speak
06. Spreading The Disease
07. The Mission
08. Suite Sister Mary
09. The Needle Lies
10. Electric Requiem
11. Breaking The Silence
12. I Don't Believe In Love
13. Waiting For 22
14. My Empty Room
15. Eyes Of A Stranger

Disc 2:

01. Freiheit Ouvertüre
02. Convict
03. I'm American
04. One Foot In Hell
05. Hostage
06. The Hands
07. Speed Of Light
08. Signs Say Go
09. Re-Arrange You
10. The Chase
11. Murderer?
12. Circles
13. If I Could Change It All
14. An Intentional Confrontation
15. A Junkie's Blues
16. Fear City Slide
17. All The Promises
Encore
18. Walk In The Shadows
19. Jet City Woman

Bonus DVD Content
* Tour Documentary
* "The Chase" performed live with Ronnie James Dio in Los Angeles
* QUEENSRŸCHE Rock & Ride featurett

QUEENSRŸCHE brought the group's acclaimed "Operation: Mindcrime" albums to the stage last year performing the original and its 2006 sequel in their entirety during the group's successful North American tour. The marathon shows included a full theatrical production complete with Surround Sound, video imagery and actors portraying the concept albums' characters onstage with the band. Rhino captures QUEENSRŸCHE's epic performance in front of the quintet's hometown crowd at the Moore Theater in Seattle with "Mindcrime at the Moore" (cover). The double CD ($24.98) and double DVD ($29.99) versions will both be available June 26 at all physical retail outlets and www.rhino.com. The album will also be available at all digital retail outlets for a suggested retail price of $14.99. An iTunes exclusive version featuring a video of "The Chase" with Ronnie James Dio will be available for $15.99.

The CD includes singer and chief songwriter Geoff Tate along with guitarists Michael Wilton and Mike Stone, bassist Eddie Jackson and drummer Scott Rockenfield performing all 32 mindcrime tracks plus a two-song encore featuring their signature hits — "Jet City Woman" and "Walk In The Shadows". The DVD features the same performance expanded with bonus material including a tour documentary, a featurette on the band's "Rock & Ride Across America" charity motorcycle ride for the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, and a live performance of "The Chase" from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, featuring Ronnie James Dio's only public appearance as Dr. X.

"This concert is the realization of an idea that began nearly two decades ago," says Tate. "The story and music of 'Operation: Mindcrime' is very dear to the band. We are thrilled with this performance and proud to share it with our audience."

QUEENSRŸCHE released "Operation: Mindcrime" in 1988. Praised by critics and certified platinum, the album was an acclaimed success remaining on Billboard's Top 200 for more than a year. In 2006 the band released a long-awaited sequel to their magnum opus to critical and commercial success. The album debuted at #14 on the Top 200, their highest debut in over a decade.

The concept albums follow an intriguing and complex plot that revolves around Dr. X, a political puppet master who brainwashes Nikki — the story's main character — to assassinate corrupt public figures. The story also includes Nikki's lover, Sister Mary. A former teenage prostitute who becomes a nun, Sister Mary is murdered mysteriously, leaving the cliffhanger "Who Killed Sister Mary?" Set 20 years after the original, "Operation: Mindcrime II" explores Nikki's fate after being released from prison and reveals the identity of Mary's killer. The album centers on revenge and what it does to people, their emotions and the choices they make.

la boucle est bouclée !! Bon on pourra toujours regretter l'absence de De Garmo, mais ce Mindcrime II est pas mal, certes ce n'est plus le style heavy du 1er volume, mais les compos sont pas dégueu pour autant et le concept est toujours présent, je reproche juste le manque de pêche de la prod, mais peut être voulait il qu'elle se rapproche de celle du premier volume ? En tout cas, j'suis preneur pour ce double live !!

/me se lave les yeux.

Je m'en doutais, mais j'avais pas trop le temps de chercher !

Grosse déception ce Mindcrime II. Vraiment dégouté qu'il soit sorti et honnêtement il n'y a pas grand chose à sauver. C'est triste mais c'est comme ça. Alors le live on s'en passera... surtout s'il a le même son que le OM II.

Oui il est pourri ce mindcrime II, le son aussi, tu as raison de la souligné. Et la qualité des zicos ni change rien, à des années lumière du 1er.

FRanchement, je le trouve bien le OM2. A part le début qui n'est pas terrible terrible, les 2 ou 3 premiers morceaux... Après ça part crescendo et sans atteindre la qualité du premier volume, je trouve les compos largement supérieures à ce que propose le groupe depuis Promised Land....

Depuis ? C'est à dire "à partir de" ou "après" ?

Après, depuis, pendant, avec, sans , en outre, au delà, antérieur à ....CDLM tout ça.
Queensrÿche est mort par manque d'oxygène. Sont allés trop haut avec Rage for order et Operation mindcrime. Z'ont pris l'ascenseur pour redescendre et ils ont joué la zique qu'allait avec l'ambiance du lieu.

Inutile de dire que je ne suis pas d'accord. Ha mince, c'est fait. Enfin je module, je mets Promised Land à part de chez à part, le reste... c'est vous qui voyez.

Un best-of à venir avec un nouveau titre co-écrit par DeGarmo...
Un album est en route aussi. J'ai peur.

RockConfidential.com conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate earlier today (July 3). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

RockConfidential.com: The new CD/DVD "Live at the Moore" sets are out today. Would you say this release is the most ambitious of your career?

Tate: Yeah. I would definitely classify it as that! It's been a really long, long project. The album itself started back around 1990 and we never finished it. It was always on the back burner. We just weren't ready for it. We finally got the album done and putting it out was a real milestone for us. Deciding to film the whole thing was a really great idea at the time, but I remember somewhere along the six month of planning it that I was questioning my sanity! Getting everybody in line — we went through about three or four editors and a couple of directors. It was really quite an ordeal. What we got at the end of the day was a really good filming of the show. It's something very special for the fans.

RockConfidential.com: Planning it and pulling it off sounds like a huge task, but you're only halfway there. Editing is a huge process, too. How involved were you in going through the footage and the final edits?

Tate: I was very involved. I've done these video projects before and you can learn as you go. The first impulse is to film everything. If you really film everything you'll just have so much stuff to look through. It's weeks and weeks of looking at footage and marking sections. You sit in this dark room staring at a computer screen for weeks and weeks and it drives you crazy! This time we decided to do it a little differently. We filmed it all over two nights. We had a set amount of cameras so we only had so much footage to go through. We just made sure we had it right. The band was very well rehearsed. We'd been on tour for a while and we were very comfortable with it. It's all about the planning — what cameras to use, what angles to shoot from. Pre-planning definitely helps when you're looking at all the footage. You'll end up with five good shots to pick from instead of 16 bad ones!

RockConfidential.com: Would you say that "Operation: Mindcrime" is the defining record for QUEENSRŸCHE? Is that a good thing or not?

Tate: It's definitely a milestone for the band. Up until the time we did the first "Mindcrime" we'd been playing around with themes on our albums and writing about certain concepts. We'd never done a full story. That was our first conceptual piece that told a story. That was a big creative step for us. It was eventually so well received and so many people related to that story and those songs. Through performing it a few hundred times it really helped cement it into the minds of the audience. We like to experiment with our music and take each record in a different step from the last. We try to keep progressing as writers. Some people say we ask a lot from our audience. We're not just a brand name that keeps pumping out the same thing each time. Some people have a bit of a hard time accepting that. In a way I think it's been great for our career. We have a lot of longevity here — 28 years as a band. I think it's because we experiment and keep it fresh for our audience.

RockConfidential.com: There's a new hits collection ["Sign of the Times: Best Of"] coming out next month. How involved did you get to be on this one?

Tate: That's a real cool one. It's a two-record set. It's got songs that were hits, some live versions, some studio versions that didn't get used. There's also a disc of rarities. Chris DeGarmo and I recently wrote a song that's going to be included on that called "Justified". There's also some really weird stuff. Before I was in QUEENSRŸCHE I was in a band called MYTH. We wrote a lot of original songs and then the band broke up. I took those songs and brought them to QUEENSRŸCHE and we made different songs out of them. We retained a lot of lyrics and melodies. We've include those songs. Fans can see how inspiration for some of those songs came about. It's fun to hear that. There was a song that QUEENSRŸCHE originally wrote called "Waiting for the Kill" that didn't make the "Warning" album. Our producer at the time thought we needed to go back to the drawing board with that song. Chris, Michael and I re-wrote the song and turned it into "NM 156" which ended up on the album. You'll get to hear it in its original form and you can hear how we took it apart and turned it into something new.

RockConfidential.com: You mentioned working with Chris DeGarmo again. How did that come together and are there future plans to work together?

Tate: We've talked about working together again. We had a really good time working on this new song. It was fun hanging out again. We talked about doing other projects together — outside of QUEENSRŸCHE. It's definitely a possibility.

RockConfidential.com: You've got dates scheduled through December. Is there a break anytime soon?

Tate: Well, we really weren't going to tour much this year. We were going to lay low and work on another studio album. We're doing that now. Some of these dates came up that we just couldn't say no to. We're going to work around the recording schedule. We have a couple of dates this month. The HEAVEN AND HELL tour starts in September for about five weeks. Then we go to Europe with THIN LIZZY and then we're home for Christmas. We're going out on a U.S. tour in January that's about five weeks. We're going to try to finish the record then.

RockConfidential.com: How's the new record progressing?

Tate: It's going really well. It's very adventurous for us. It's a theme record. I wouldn't say it a story, but all the songs are related to one topic.

Un extrait du live avec The Chase (et en guest Dio).

Conforme à l'album avec une légère amélioration niveau du son.