{"id":10523,"date":"2012-11-26T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:52:42","slug":"album-review-geoff-tate-kings-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10523","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Geoff Tate \u2013 Kings & Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Geoff Tate \u2013 Kings & Thieves<\/strong>
\n Release Date: November 6, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

With all of the drama surrounding this year\u2019s split between Queensryche and their long time vocalist Geoff Tate, fans were left wondering what would become of both parties.\u00a0 Queensryche took a stab at working with new vocalist Todd LaTorre with surprisingly great feedback and results while Geoff Tate wasted no time releasing this latest solo effort.\u00a0 Being a long time fan of Geoff and Queensryche, I really wanted to give this album an honest listen and I really hoped that it would be something that would blow me away and surprise me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I was prepared for what I was about to hear but I went in with an opened an unbiased mind.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe Slipped Away\u201d opened the album up and right away I had to keep reminding myself, \u201cDon, this is NOT Queensryche\u201d because I just thought it sounded ridiculous.\u00a0 Once I got passed that and engrained that into my skull, I found myself really enjoying this song and for the rest of this album I just couldn\u2019t believe how much I was enjoying it as a whole.\u00a0 \u201cTake a Bullet\u201d had this really dark almost grungy kind of groove which I enjoyed and even as ridiculous as \u201cThe Way I Roll\u201d was, I found myself really loving that song.\u00a0 Songs like \u201cChange\u201d and \u201cThese Glory Days\u201d really showcase a side of Geoff as a writer that I can trace back to the Queensryche days with a dark and somewhat melancholy beauty.\u00a0 \u201cSay U Luv It\u201d is a really odd cut and actually made me feel kind of uncomfortable.\u00a0 To hear Geoff Tate singing about things like putting his fingers in some girl\u2019s mouth and then using handcuffs and plastic wrap just made me squirm.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny that of all the ridiculous metal that is supposed to be extreme and gross me out, none of it really does.\u00a0 Leave it to Geoff Tate to actually get that kind of reaction out of me.<\/p>\n

I listened to this album front to back three times.\u00a0 By the time I got through my 3rd<\/sup> listen, I found myself really liking this album.\u00a0 But why did I like it?\u00a0 I\u2019m still trying to figure that out.\u00a0 I mean, at first listen I hated it and thought it was one of the most absurd things I had heard.\u00a0 On my 2nd<\/sup> listen I felt myself distancing myself from the Queensryche comparisons and by the 3rd<\/sup> time I was completely into this album as a Geoff Tate album.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for a Queensryche album, this isn\u2019t where you need to be but if you\u2019re looking for something that is so the polar opposite and you\u2019re brave enough to wade through dark waters; this is just the album for you.\u00a0 One answer remains though; why did I like this album?<\/p>\n

Maybe I liked this album because he\u2019s an amazing vocalist.\u00a0 Some will argue that Tate\u2019s voice is not as strong as it once was.\u00a0 I can agree to an extent but Tate has managed to work with the change in his voice and still deliver a powerful, sharp sound that still cuts through the air like it always has.\u00a0 It\u2019s a voice that is comfortable and that still possesses that passion and emotion that I\u2019ve come to associate it with.\u00a0 Maybe I liked this album because even at its most off the wall moments (\u201cSay U Luv It\u201d and \u201cThe Way I Roll) I couldn\u2019t tell if he was just taking it off the wall for shock value or if he was sincere.\u00a0 The fact that this album was this thought provoking says to me that Geoff Tate is a lot more intelligent and much more of an artist that I ever gave him credit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff Tate \u2013 Kings & Thieves Release Date: November 6, 2012 With all of the drama surrounding this year\u2019s split between Queensryche and their long time vocalist Geoff Tate, fans were left wondering what would become of both parties.\u00a0 Queensryche took a stab at working with new vocalist Todd LaTorre with surprisingly great feedback and results while Geoff Tate wasted no time releasing this latest solo effort.\u00a0 Being a long time fan of Geoff and Queensryche, I really wanted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[869,332],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-geoff-tate","tag-queensryche"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19806,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions\/19806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}