Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime [2 LPs]Operation: Mindcrime [2 LP] Operation: Mindcrime is regarded as one of the greatest concept metal albums of all time. The band's 3rd album, originally released in May 1988, is based around Nikki, a recovering drug addict, who becomes disillusioned with a corrupt society and joins a revolutionary group to assassinate political leaders. This new version was remastered at Abbey Road Studios and brings together all the available recordings to tell the

The resulting musical texture seems to float in midair

I lost a very close and special long-term musical relationship immensely central to my ongoing development and creativity as a drummer

which wrote

the album is 8 songs

When I wrote and named this this song

and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

saturnine affair than their debut City Lights

through a personally written guide

what it might've been in a different universe

and John Lennon's Julia

Will Ribeiro (bass guitar

This excellent-value 49-track 2-CD set comprises his studio recordings in small ensembles