Track Listing
1. Warning 2. En force 3. Deliverance 4. No sanctuary 5. NM 156 6. Take hold of the dlame 7. Before the storm 8. Child of fire 9. Roads to madness Year: 1984 Label: EMI - Official Site |
Queensr�che - 'The warning' - By J. Korkiam�ki
The first days of Queensr�che were very slow. No global success, no success in the U.S., no success anywhere. The debut EP was almost totally overlooked by the audience in those days. It didn�t sell, and neither did this debut full length album The Warning. It was a long time before I purchased The Warning. I had already bought and listened (many times) to one of the most dashing, totally best metal albums of all time, 1988�s Operation: Mindcrime. Along with 1990�s Empire and unfortunately also both of the lastest albums. When The Warning finally dropped into my mailbox, I listened to it carefully and most of the time compared it to its followers. The result was a living conflict. Well, from the 80�s Queensr�che albums The Warning IS the heaviest album. You can still clearly hear the influence of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, and now also the influence of Black Sabbath in the Ronnie James Dio era. The final song, the nine minute epic "Roads To Madness" is a quite good combination of all of the bands� music, the bass lines make it sound more or less like Black Sabbath�s "Heaven And Hell". Although, Queensr�che has added in some of their own, progressive style of metal, and most of the time it sounds perfectly like the band. And you can�t mistake Geoff Tate�s fabulous, high, powerful German voice (he was born in Germany) for anyone else�s. The Warning would probably be a fantastic album to own, but not necessarily. There are many good songs, and not many bad ones, I might add. My favourite tracks are; "Warning", "NM 156", the incredible "Take Hold Of The Flame", "Before The Storm" and the previously mentioned "Roads To Madness". BUT, The sounds are still terrible, they haven�t been enhanced at all since the EP, and also there are too much solos, the same problem as is with Megadeth�s Rust In Peace in my part, and some of the songs are too long, or too stretched. Sometimes it sounds like the lyrics only cover the first quarter of the song, and that the rest is soloing by the guitar gurus DeGarmo and Wilton. Also one of the poorer things is the drum department, which isn�t very audible most of the time. I think I should exchange a few words with the mixer... The Warning isn�t bad. Seriously, it needs adjustment, a lot of adjustment. It�s not easy to cope with long solos, if you have listened to the band�s influences like Judas Priest all of your life, and more or less the short torture solos of Glenn Tipton. But that�s not the only problem. They should�ve done something with the freakin� sounds. The album would possibly be great with better sounds. Metal Obsessive Grade: 79% |