Queensrÿche

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2009

First Recording: 1983

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Queensrÿche
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
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🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Rage for Order (1986)
Operation: Mindcrime (1988)
Empire (1990)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Take Hold of the Flame (1984)
Silent Lucidity (1990)

Queensrÿche @ Wikipedia

Will Queensrÿche be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Queensryche one of those bands that causes much discussion on RRHOF. I feel myself torn on Queensryche. They recorded 1 of the best CD's of the early 90's with Empire. 5 star CD. No flaws in the album & had a monster hit with Silent Lucidity. My FAV off Empire would probably be Jet City Woman.

The other albums were good but never moved me like Empire.I think the best thing in Queensryche's FAV is they helped open the Seattle music scene with their success.Many bands AIC, Nirvana,Pearl Jam etc followed & were noticed.Becoming mega stars. Queenryche is 1 of those bands you had to see live as they were all fantastic musicians. I'm a big fan of singers & I've had a love/hate relationship with Geoff Tate's voice. Sometimes,it seemed too operatic for my.taste. My opinion on Queensryche:They fall short of RRHOF induction. KING

Posted by KING on Tuesday, 01/28/2014 @ 18:39pm


I think Queensryche reminds me of Rush in the intelligent song writing and talent of musicians. Queensryche is tough to classify. Prog metal heavy metal with an operatic type singer in Geoff Tate. One of the posters brought up a strong point about it's tough to classify Queensryche significance in who they influenced and their innovations. I'm still leaning towards NO after listening to Operation Mindcrime 2. But it would not surprise me if they get a heavy push in next 10 years. KING

Posted by KING on Saturday, 05/16/2015 @ 13:14pm


I think Queensryche is one of the most intriguing candidates for RRHOF. They are a group that might benefit from these new changes in the Hall committee. Say Deep Purple inducted in 2016 and Judas Priest in 2017. Queensryche would suddenly rise to the top of the hard rock/heavy metal candidates not inducted. Motorhead and Iron Maiden would be nice inductees around the 2020 year. Empire has to be 1 of the best 10 albums I've listened to start to finish. I also enjoyed the concept album Operation Mindcrime. Maybe, Queensryche were music visionaries similar to Al Gore years back on the environment and climate change. Starting to walk back that Queensryche won't be inducted. Could see them inducted in the 2023 or 2024 year. KING

Posted by KING on Tuesday, 08/18/2015 @ 15:45pm


As much as I love Queensryche, I have to say that they most likely will NOT be inducted into the Hall, much less nominated.

While there are some artists who RIGHTLY cite them as an influence, I don't think they're as significant as some others who came before them.

Personally, a greater accolade for Queensryche in my opinion would be the permanent registry of three benchmark albums:'Rage For Order'(1986), 'Operation: Mindcrime'(1988),and 'Promised Land' (1994)into the Library Of Congress.

Posted by V.F.T. on Monday, 11/21/2016 @ 21:38pm


QUEENSRŸCHE Guitarist Says Band Wants To Avoid 'Treading On The Past': 'We're Trying To Move Forward'

“QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton recently spoke with Chuck Marshall of Metal Wani. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).”

On the band's new album, "The Verdict":

Michael: "I think it's actually an unconscious decision. [Laughs] I think three and a half years touring on 'Condition Hüman' and just seeing the energy that our live shows product, it's invigorating. I think it creeps into the writing style in a sense. It's that kind of day and age — you've got to hit people in the face now or else they go onto the next thing. It's just kind of the way it worked. This was definitely a different way of writing a QUEENSRŸCHE record than the past two, and we're really happy with the outcome... To some people, it's going to sound like old QUEENSRŸCHE because you've got the old guys in the band that are in the band. It's only natural that it's going to sound that way. We're trying to be more 'now.' We're trying to move forward. We're trying to be relevant in this genre that we're in, so it's not like we're treading on the past. In that sense, hopefully this is a little more current and has that kind of edge, I guess, that a lot metal and progressive fans are looking for."

Michael: "I view it just as a natural evolution of the band. I think this is perfect as far as what we're striving for — to continue on as QUEENSRŸCHE. From my perspective, it's all the touring that we've done, and it just kind of infiltrated into the writing process. I'm really happy with this album. I just think it's a natural evolution. Everybody in the band is more comfortable. They've been consumed by this monster machine called QUEENSRŸCHE, and it's really at a great point in its career right now."

On whether it was a conscious decision to make an album that sounded "more metal":

On the writing process for the album:

Michael: "It's basically one song at a time. The writing process for 'The Verdict' was quite different than the [past] two albums. This one, the demos weren't 100 percent written, so we had built the songs from the ground up and Frankensteined them until we got them in a working environment that we could build the songs in. That goes for every instrument, especially drums. It was a matter of everybody being on their A-game — spontaneous creativity. [There's] a lot of spontaneity in this album, a lot of parts that were just written on the spot. Being in a band with that kind of chemistry, it's kind of exciting. It's fun to see what transpires. That being said, every song was very thought-out in the writing process. Everybody was involved in every song in every aspect. Obviously, it was a lot of pressure, a lot of hard work, but very gratifying when we [finished]. We basically came down from 28 song ideas to 10. This was the best flow; this was the best energy [and] diversity for the album. We're just super-pleased with it."

On the new song "Inside Out":

Michael: "'Inside Out' is very special to me. I've been sitting on that guitar riff for probably 15 years, and because of its Phrygian or middle-eastern flavor, it doesn't always fit into a QUEENSRŸCHE album. This is the first album that it's fit in, so it's got its day now, and I'm super-happy that this riff made it onto this record. It's a very dark, minor kind of passage, and the middle section, obviously, we wanted to make a big statement — a big guitar solo, the whole thing. The song title is about searching within yourself and coming back out, and maintaining who you are and continue on your journey. It's an interesting QUEENSRŸCHE song... A lot of that, as you'll find in our songwriting, is twists and turns, where you'd expect something and may not go there. We're always trying to challenge the traditional, and that makes it interesting for us and more proggy for [listeners]."

On whether the fact that vocalist Todd La Torre played drums on the album led other members to change their approach while writing and recording:

Michael: "Not at all. When you're in a pressure situation — you have deadlines with the record company; you have certain slots that are available with your producer — you can't delay things anymore. When it got to the point when Scott [Rockenfield] couldn't do the album, we had two choices — we had to either get an outside drummer, or use Todd. [Producer] Zeuss said, 'If we get an outside drummer, it's going to delay this project probably another three months, and I've got other commitments.' [We said,] 'That's not going to work — let's get Todd in here and let's see what he can do.' We hooked up a mini-drum kit and went song by song. Zeuss gave the thumbs-up, and it as all done in respect of the QUEENSRŸCHE drumming style. When I played the demos to the record company, they didn't even know... We're careful and obviously scrutinizing to make sure we're not getting outside the boundaries of drumming, and it's just 'Play for the song' and 'Respect the song.' That's the way we do it."

On whether Rockenfield will return:

Michael: "I've been saying this for the last two years — we don't know. We respect his privacy. He's doing his thing. He told us he didn't want to tour. He recently had a child and had paternity leave and left. He's down that path, and we just give him his space. The door is always open. If he wants to make a comeback, that's fine, but we've got to respect his privacy and what he's doing. Look at it as a team — if somebody wants to go out for a while and go do something else, someone picks up the pieces and you keep the machine going, like a sports team. Somebody gets a broken leg or a sore arm, they don't fold — they get somebody to replace them, and it's still that team. Support the team. Support the band. We're recording the music. You've [still] got the DNA of QUEENSRŸCHE in there."

"The Verdict" was released on March 1 via Century Media Records. The disc was produced, mixed, and mastered by Chris "Zeuss" Harris (ROB ZOMBIE, ICED EARTH, HATEBREED) at Uberbeatz in Lynwood, Washington; Planet-Z in Wilbraham, Massachusetts; and Watershed Studio in Seattle, Washington.”

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensryche-guitarist-says-band-wants-to-avoid-treading-on-the-past-were-trying-to-move-forward/

Posted by The Dude on Saturday, 03/2/2019 @ 11:24am


Queensyreche is one of the best progressive medal rock bands ever. It took a lot of the progressive rock bands to get in but you can't put in Metallica,Rush,the Moody Blues,Yes and other progressive rock bands and exclude Queensyreche.

Posted by Carl Hardy on Tuesday, 01/11/2022 @ 10:31am


Queensryche is one of the best progressive rock bands period. Operation Mindscape alone makes them worthy.They continually rock hard. A must. However as we know it is hard for a Progressive Rock band to make it.

Posted by Carl Hardy on Monday, 02/28/2022 @ 13:28pm


Though I completely agree that Queensrÿche, Rush as well as many other artists should be in "A" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I personally don't consider The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland) a legitimate entity. There are way too many politics involved in whos in and whos not .What members of a band that are in or not. I'm of the opinion there are too many artists in there both in honor and displays that are nothing related to Rock while legitimate artists are constantly being left out. Are there cool things there ? Sure but they will never see a dime from me again.

Posted by Frank Lindstrom on Saturday, 10/29/2022 @ 08:38am


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