Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF, Geoff Tate (ex-Queensrÿche) offered another update on his new album “Operation: Mindcrime III.” The singer hopes to release the record this summer.

Tate said the following:

“It’s all recorded. We’re just doing the mixing stage of it right now. With [producer and DISTURBED bassist] John [Moyer] touring and me touring, it’s a bit of a challenge to get us in one place so we can actually confer and listen to the music and make mix notes. So we have to kind of line it up where we have several days that we can devote to it. So that’s coming up very soon. So we hope to be finishing it up and releasing it this summer.”

He also explained the concept:

“[It’s from] the perspective of Dr. X, how the story happened from his point of view. Which is kind of interesting, I think, because we’ve only heard it from Nikki’s point of view, and he’s been sort of this victim throughout the whole story. And Dr. X’s perspective is completely different, ’cause he’s not the victim at all. So it’s very aggressive, and, yeah, I’m looking forward for people to hear it.”

He continued when asked if “Operation: Mindcrime” was always meant to be a trilogy:

“No, it’s kind of an ongoing story. I am fascinated by social science — why human beings do what we do, and groups of people that seem to have patterns over time, following in the footsteps of their generation. That kind of stuff just is fascinating to me. And so that was the basis for the story of ‘Operation: Mindcrime’. And so I just kind of explored that — human nature and what happens to a guy who gets convicted of murder and sent to an insane asylum and then graduates to a prison and then finally gets out after 20 years in prison. Does he still have the motivation for revenge against the people that put him there? That’s kind of the focus of ‘Mindcrime II’, the revenge aspect of it.”

He also added the following when asked if the music will be similar to Queensrÿche’s early material:

“Yeah, I guess so. It’s got some complex arrangements, which QUEENSRŸCHE was pretty into during our writing. It’s just very aggressive sound-wise. And stylistically, I would say, it’s very QUEENSRŸCHE.”

[via Blabbermouth]