In 1982 Five gentlemen from the Pacific Northwest became Queensryche. They had released their self titled E.P. off an independent label 206 Records. The band were comprised of Singer Geoff Tate,Bassist Eddie Jackson,Guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton and Drummer Scott Rockenfield. The EP got rave reviews on the international market that it lead to EMI signing them in 1983 and the E.P was re-released in August of that year featuring their debut single "Queen of The Reich" there would be a 1988 reissue of that E.P. which featured a fifth song called Prophecy written by Chris DeGarmo. When Queensryche headed back into the studio to work on their first full length record. The songwriting Trio of Tate,Wilton and DeGarmo had started writing new material while on tour supporting their self titled E.P. The album was inspired by the world events and the 1949 novel George Orwell did called "Nineteen Eighty Four". The album would be called "The Warning" and it was recorded in multiple studios in London such as Angel Recording Studio,Abbey Road,Audio International Studio and Mayfair Studio and what's good is that the band got to work with producer James Guthrie who had produced a number of Pink Floyd albums. That was a plus because not many people realize it even though Queensryche's musical style is similar to british metal acts Judas Priest and Iron Maiden,but most of the band were heavilly influenced by Pink Floyd as well.
Geoff Tate stated in an interview in 2013 about the band's dissatisfaction with the mixing of "The Warning" He stated that this was the only time the record label restricted their creative freedom during it's recording. They went over the $300,00 budget and the label took it out of their hands and gave it to somebody else to mix. Whoever mixed "The Warning" album had no frickin clue who Queensryche was? That's how it is when you give someone the album to mix,even though he's never listened to their music. He went and mixed it according to how he thought Queensryche would sound. The band hated it. "The Warning" would be released on September 7,1984 and would go Gold even reaching #61 on the Billboard 200 charts here in the United States.
Ruthless Metal a youtuber I don't know where he's from my guess is he's from Sweden,but he ranks "The Warning" as his #1 Queensryche album. Personally speaking I ranked this album somewhere in the top 10 Queensryche albums. The only song worth listening to on "The Warning" is "Take Hold of The Flame" it became an international hit especially in Japan. In support of it's release Queensryche went on a world wide tour from August of 1984 to July of 1985 while opening up for Kiss on their Animalize tour,Iron Maiden on their World Slavery Tour,Dio on his Last in Line tour and German Metal Act Accept for their Metal Heart Tour.
My Overall Rating for The Warning album is a 5/10 Now I haven't listened to alot of the songs off "The Warning" except for "Take Hold of the Flame" I should give the album a listen to before I comeback and give you a different review of it,but as it stands it's a 5/10
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