{"id":11822,"date":"2013-09-30T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:42:19","slug":"album-by-album-challenge-queensryche-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=11822","title":{"rendered":"Album By Album Challenge: Queensryche (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Queensryche_12_by_MindClot\"<\/a>Welcome to another \u201cAlbum by Album Challenge.\u201d For those that are new here, the \u201cAlbum by Album Challenge\u201d is where I take a band\u2019s entire discography and listen to every album in order of release from front to back. With my unforgiving and well-aged ear, I call it how I hear it. In some cases, I find that what I once thought was good is actually pretty crappy and sometimes crap manages to age into something pretty kick ass. And in some cases, face melting is still just good ol\u2019 face melting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This time around I dove head first into the discography of Queensryche.\u00a0 This was hands down one of the scariest challenges to date but it was one that I honestly felt that I needed to do.\u00a0 As a fan of Queensryche for over 20 years, the band seemed to go from the top of it all to being a band that at times seemed to let their fans down or at least left us all scratching our heads wondering what happened.\u00a0 This challenge was a great way to for my own opinions on some of those albums that I just flat out avoided like the plague.
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This is a two part post.\u00a0 Part I will cover his first seven albums and Part II will pick up the rest including the bout of Queensryche vs. Queensryche.\u00a0 I’m so curious to hear everyone’s thoughts on this so please share!
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\"\"Queensryche \u2013 EP<\/strong>
\n Release Date:<\/strong> September, 1983
\nThe Good:<\/strong> Queen of the Reich, Nightrider, Blinded, The Lady Wore Black
\nThe Bad:<\/strong>
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It\u2019s been years since I sat down and listened to this EP and I found myself loving it more now than I did when I first heard it back in 1986. In just four songs you can hear this band progress from an almost Paul DiAnno era Iron Maiden clone with \u201cQueen of the Reich\u201d and \u201cNightrider\u201d to the signature sound that would forge a genre with \u201cThe Lady Wore Black.\u201d I\u2019m also surprised at how great it still sounds. It doesn\u2019t sound dated in the least bit and the performance is absolutely stellar. What a way to start a career with four incredibly strong songs that gave us all just a slight taste of what was to come from this amazing band. This really got me pumped for this challenge and I can\u2019t wait to dive into the next one. Here we go!<\/p>\n