Track Listing
1. Best I can 2. The thin line 3. Jet city woman 4. Della brown 5. Another rainy night 6. Empire 7. Resistance 8. Silent lucidity 9. Hand on heart 10. One and only 11. Anybody listening? Year: 1990 Label: EMI - Official Site |
Queensr�che - 'Empire' - By J. Korkiam�ki
Empire, Queensr�che�s fourth full length album is filled with just the kind of music which is nowadays referred to as progressive rock. Operation: Mindcrime�s metallic shield has broken despite a few songs. Overally Empire is a ROCK album. So, a good or a bad thing? Everyone has to decide by themselves. Empire isn�t actually a concept album, but there is a certain shade of despair in every song; almost every one of them speaks of loneliness or destruction of human self confidence in one way or the other. The album musically isn�t depressing, in any way gothic or stiff, the relaxed kind of playing comes with a good mood, and it takes care, that the album doesn�t fit to be a soundtrack for being p*ssed off. This should at least give off the fact that not all of the guys and gals who liked the previous albums, will necessarily like this one. The rock ballads �Jet City Woman� and �Another Rainy Night (Without You)�, and also the acoustic �Silent Lucidity� take care of the slower and soothing side of the album, and the heavier �The Thin Line� and �Empire� keep the older fans at bay. Although Empire is quite a different Queensr�che album, it holds cards in its sleeve, one of them being the fact, that the guys� musical side was still in great shape. You can still clearly hear this is Queensr�che, because the guitar and vocal styles haven�t changed. Although Empire doesn�t contain new �Eyes Of A Stranger�'s or �Screaming In Digital�'s, it�s a good addition to your Queensr�che collection, if you have luckily stumbled on this older, and oh, so much better material. The words 'taking for granted' don�t fit together with Empire at all, so before you finally decide the place of the album in your heart, you should listen to it a couple of times more. Metal Obsessive Grade: 82% |