We listen because it is the greatest era of Rock and Metal! There will never be bands anything like Metallica, Ozzy, Priest, Maiden, Van Halen , Queensryche, Scorpions and the list goes on! This music NEVER gets old!
I don't understand why people list off bands like this but never include UFO. Michael schenker and the rest of the band outshine everyone you just listed.
@@lsutton4193I don’t know about that. They definitely outshone queensrych, but the rest? I can’t agree with that though. Great band though. Force is a great album
As one of the biggest Queensryche fans over the years, I couldn't agree more! I got here over the course of connecting dots on many recent artists and came across a cover of QotR which brought me to this video. I just so happened to expand the only comment that caught my eye that was 1 year old only to find out Mike posted 4 hours ago about Scott leaving. How does this happen?! Chris, Scott, original Queensryche told an amazing story over the years and I'm honored to have experienced the rise and fall in my lifetime!
I was never a huge fan of them but I've been listening to them more lately and I cannot understand why I wasn't a fan of them now, they have the total package
I personally think that they gave Seattle a bad name. Jimi Hendrix was good, heart was good, and all of the Seattle bands all the early 90s, better known as grunge, or great! I thought Queensreich were boring! I did like the "Operstion Mindcrime" album. It was really good, but adide from that...too Heavy Metal starting out, and too boring from "Empire" on up.
Queensrÿche Queen Of The Reich Lyrics In the dead of night She'll come and take you away Searing beams of light and thunder Over blackened plains She will find her way Flying high through the night She will hide your fate As she takes your soul from under And the blinding light of the castle fades There is no escape It's the ending of your precious life Your soul slipped away It belongs to the Queen of the Reich The Queen of the Reich Yeah she's coming for you You're fading away Your life cast astray A victim the beast shall obtain The light will not shine For you'll die tonight at her shrine And black is the last thing you'll see Over and over Dreams of dying fill your head It's the sign of the cross That you'll find ahead No one will answer The light is fading away Captive souls are screaming out in pain There is no escape It's the ending of your precious life Your soul slipped away It belongs to the Queen of the Reich You're fading away, No, No, No The Queen of the Reich You're slipping away, yeah The Queen of the Reich
They’ve always always always been under appreciated. Lack of radio exposure and chicks didn’t dig them like dudes did. That’s the key to any band of that era getting any heat: how many groupies lined up to both give and receive STDs. Chicks put Poison over the top, so…
Dude, I was at that show! Queensrÿche had just released the EP and opened for DIO on the Holy Diver tour, one of the best concerts ever with two of the greatest vocalists in rock and metal together in their prime, it was truly a night I never forgot! Another show from that era that hit me similar was my first concert just the year before with Scorpions on the Blackout tour with Iron Maiden on The Number of the Beast tour opening, at the Cow Palace I think. Man those were some incredible times! \m/
I'll etc that that concert was indescribably amazing. I love Queensryche and Dio both! I actually did get to see QR for the Building Empires tour. They were beyond amazing!
You can't imagine, as singers, how much we worked on those type of screams in the 80s and 90s! The James Hetfield 'yeahyeahahyeah' stuff saved our arseses! 😁
@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn Yes, it is really true. And Geoff Tate performed this kind of mixed head voice sound without efforts while it is really difficoult to emulate this register, even with lots of singing lessons. He was really blessed by nature
So incredible! I saw them at a 16 year old back in the 80's opening for KISS at the Spectrum in Pennsylvania and was entirely enthralled thereafter. They were known as the "thinking man's metal." Keep on rocking (check out Kamelot, Circus Maximus, and TNT if you are so inclined.) :)
+Roberto Gouvêa Okay I'll update. In trying to destroy the evil queen, Geoff contracted a non lethal virus from her which actually turned him into an evil queen, he continued with this for about 30 years before eventually being defeated by a dedicated band of disgruntled Queensryche fans...............To be continued (probably).............................................................
I cannot believe I've never seen this before, in all the millennia I've been online. Geoff Tate was one of the first, if not the only one, to do high pitched banshee wailing correctly. I know others will say... Merciful Fate... etc... And some of that passes the grade... but nobody got it better that Geoff, and for that matter, when it come to arrangements, sound and over-all kicking ass, Original Queensryche is still among the top 10 Metal bands of all-time.
Remember hearing this on a local college radio station Saturday night metal show and getting the EP sometime between 83/84 but NEVER recall knowing a totally cheesy/awesome video existed for this song! Takes me back 40 years. Their first few albums were total 🔥
@@slayer7976 I saw them on the Empire tour (Jet City Woman, etc) (Another great album). After about 6 songs into the concert, Geoff said "We'd like to tell you a little story" And the whole place roared, knowing they were going to play all of Mindcrime. And they did. One of my fav concerts in the roughly 40 or so I've seen.
I remember driving around in my First Truck Trying to match Geoff Tate's high notes on the way to my Job at the Grocery store. What a time to be alive and young. Thought I knew it all and took myself way too serious. Just waiting for my heart to be broken by the next Fawn Eyed farm girl to cross my path. When I hear this song a whole chapter of my life flashes through my head, I hope its the same for you.
I bought this ep at the Record Vault in San Francisco in 83 when I was 12. A guy at the counter took pity on my lost metalhead searching and recommended that I give this a try. Put it in my Walkman ,pushed play as I rode my skateboard down Haight, I was so blown away, I don't even remember getting home, all I remember was this blasting in my ears as the street scenes passed by like a haze....Good times!!!
Reminded me of those days when I too would ride my bike home with a new tape blasting in my ears. I would scrounge all the change in my moms purse and take off to the record store.... man the 80s....
I have a similar memory. I was about 11 when I first heard this. It was a Saturday night and I had the stereo on low as grandpa disapproved of "metal". I was blown away, even at that volume. I remember telling my elder cousin about the band the next day and he laughed at me. Few months later, I caught him listening to mindcrime.
I heard it around the same age but years later since im much younger than y'all. I listened to it so much I considered it their first "album" even though it's an ep, and to this day I get confused when people say the Warning is Queensryche's "Debut" album even though the self titled is only an ep- I guess that's the impact it made lol
Queensryche kicked major ass with their debut EP. But they decided to take a progressive direction and just cancelled themselves as the most underrated metal band, unfortunately.
Going to see how the new singer holds up this weekend in Kitchener Ontario (04/11/2024) when they play the EP and The Warning in their entirety, along with Armored Saint! Can't wait!
The 80's music, the sound, the vocals, the music videos with real props and cool-looking special effects, the looks of the women...you just can't beat any of these, you just can't!
I'm only 22 why am I addicted to this band and genre .. friends usually make fun of me and say "why do you listen to this stuff , it's what my grandpa listens to" 😑
Because no human can resist amazing music writing. This "stuff" is the hardest to play and sing. Trust me I have been singing for years and I have to give it my all to sing it..
Queensryche Hi Long time fan. I remember recording this video on VHS from MTV's Headbanger's Ball probably late '80's or early '90's. I watched it over and over. I even had the Album on tape cassette. I loved the videos like these. Some of the newer bands are going back to the older theatrical video formats. I had always hoped to see another video that tied in with a continuation of Queen Of The Ryche. Anyway, due to the fact that I had lost my VHS tapes when I became homeless for a few weeks back in 1996, I am so happy to find this video here on UA-cam. Thanks for the good memories. Keep Rockin'!
In my honest opinion this is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever! If you would to introduce someone to heavy metal who never heard it before this is a great song to start with. It has almost everything killer vocals, fantasy themed lyrics, driving riffs & blasting drums.
The absolute best band I ever saw live (mid eighties). The lead singer sounds exactly like this live. His mike went out during the show and you could still hear him in the arena. Amazing show!
The first 40 seconds is my favorite intro for a rock song. Just killer! You don't have to sit and wonder if this song is gonna finally kick into gear at some point. Grabs you right from the start.
This was a great era to be a teen. So much fantastic metal was out and coming out each month. Today .... I cant tell todays bands apart. This gem is from the days when bands all had a sound. You couldn't cover it accurately. Now any pub act can cover the so called top metal acts as they all have the same vocal and guitar sounds.
vladlashing Well today we have Sabaton and Powerwolf, their not quite like the music from the late 70s to mid 90s, but I’d say their distinguishable and are pretty good.
There are some pretty good bands out there today, but you have to look to find them. The popular "metal" scene is blah. The vocals all sound exactly the same. The sorry assed tone of the guitars too.
There are great metal bands today. Defecto, Primal Fear, Cain's Offering, Stratovarius, Enemy Inside, Megadeth (still king), Dream Evil, Beast in Black, Adagio, Dynazty, Judas Priest (still powerful as ever), and many many more
Ok I'm not going lie, the first time I heard this was in 2006 on GTA VCS. And no shit I swear to God I thought it was Bruce Dickinson of iron maiden singing, they sound very similar to me. Then I listened to silent lucidity and was like wow, this guy has some serious vocal range. This band is awesome
Yes, but then came the grunge. And they got their grunge on everything. So much grunge it stopped the lead solos for awhile, BUT! Metal lived on! And where is the grunge? Washed away by all that Seattle rain. Ironic that the whole grunge thing came out of the same city that produced Queensryche.
When I was a deployed marine in Okinawa (1988) there was a club near Camp Hansen called the East Coast Club that had a screen as one of the walls. The first time I ever walked in this was playing on the screen and it was so loud it shook the club!
I was deployed to Oki in '94 and '96! They still had the screen there, and I would always request this--much to the annoyance of the other Marines in the place, who would rather have been listening to Soundgarden or Tool. Oh well, tough breaks!
I'm going there next time I hit Okinawa! If I ever get liberty, that is. 😂 Although I'm probably gonna hear the mainstream rap that these fucking kids listen to now-a-days. 🙄
Queensryche is one of the greatest Metal bands of all time ! The Warning, Rage For Order and, especially, Operation: Mindcrime are fantastic albums. Undoubtedly, Operation: Mindcrime is a milestone to the further development of Heavy Metal music, the so-called Progressive Metal.
The band never did recover after he left Chris that is. Chris DeGarmo is never underrated to those of us who know. Chris we all miss you and so does queensryche. There's only 5 guys that deserves to be in this band, and we ALL know who they are.
Chris and Geoff were the heart and soul of the band. They were the storytellers. You couldn't pay me to go see the current line up. Nothing against TLT as a vocalist, but for me, it hurts me to my core to hear him sing Geoff's songs.
mskARin888 indeed. Geoff's voice and Degarmo guitar skills ..bottom line between Operation Mindcrime and Empire, that was the height and demise of the band. best they ever composed.
When I was back in high school, KLOS of Los Angeles was giving away tickets to the first 100 callers to Queensryche at the Hollywood Palladium. A few weeks prior, for another concert, I had heard the DJ laughing at one of the winners who used the San Diego phone number to 'sneak' in for a win. So, I figured, what the heck; I dialed the San Diego number probably running up the phone bill for my parents, and voila! I won tickets. I couldn't get the car that night, so a metal head friend with an old 70's Cadillac Coupe de Ville hand me down car was invited, and it was quite the show. If I remember, the opening act was Carmine Appice's King Cobra. Oh, and I got a cassette of one of the albums which was played on the way home in my buddy's car, LOL
Everthing from the 60's to 90's really shaped music with energy and adventure, almost like a endless indiana jones movie and soundtrack all mixed in perfect balance!
F'n Queensryche, there is no substitute!! Have seen Geoff 2 x's in the last 1 year, and at 63 he still absolutely crushes it, night after night.. his voice has held up extremely well!!
The singer, Geoff Tate, was instructed as a teenager by his aunt, who was an opera singer. He learned proper breathing technique and he could bridge the gap between chest voice and falsetto with no break.....and of course with great power.
Tate could have sung anything and made it a hit imho. The fact he and the band wrote and performed songs decades ago that are both relevant and powerful today is a testament to their genius.
To answer your question of why you are addicted to this band ! Nothing that is written or sung currently even compares talent wise just pure talent and work! No auto tune no fluff no bullshit just raw music!
I found Queensryche when Empire came out and I was hooked! I had to listen to as much as I could. Thanks, Queensryche for giving us so much kick ass music!
I love Queensryche, but let me make it clear that it's Queensryche with Geoff Tate and I would have preferred American Soldier came before they could have that wrong step into grunge that led to Chris De Garmo no longer in the band or has he come back? One thing is for sure- without Geoff I just don't see it. However, let me just say Queensryche is important to me hugely important. This was my first heavy metal song I loved. Back when I was only 8 or 9 years old and it was everything Queensryche for a long time. I didn't used to be able to sing at all, but now I can sing 2 octaves at least and it was Judas Priest, Queensryche, Iron Maiden, and softer bands not really metal that led to that. Practice practice practice. I think this band are probably a strongly good choice for most perfect and refined progressive metal band, but the grungy period was not something I could get into. It's sad he left and got really disillusioned again maybe for the last time.
This great bands name originally was The Mobs.. One of the first songs they wrote was “Queen of the Reich.” About a year later, The Mob was courted by Easy Street Records’ Kim and Diana Harris, and their manager urged them to change their name. Exhausted from trying to think of replacements, they settled on plucking a couple of words from the aforementioned track and then changing “reich” to “rÿche” (which can mean “realm”)
A great combination of a fabulous singer with super talented musicians. The amount of talent coming out of this band is way beyond the norm. They are definitely on the front line in my book!!!
Saw Queensryche open up for Judas Priest a few weeks ago and this is one of the songs that really stuck with me. Fantastic band, and still bringing it live!
Talented band . Seen them live at Monsters of Rock 1980s. Many elements in this music video didn't exist back in 1981. When this was created. Virtual reality, flatscreen ,computers, drone video monitors... art created future reality? Excellent directed and edited music video
Lyric : In the dead of night She'll come and take you away Searing beams of light and thunder Over blackened plains She will find her way Flying high through the night She will hide your fate As she takes your soul from under And the blinding light of the castle fades There is no escape It's the ending of your precious life Your soul slipped away It belongs to the Queen of the Reich The Queen of the Reich Yeah she's coming for you You're fading away Your life cast astray A victim the beast shall obtain The light will not shine For you'll die tonight at her shrine And black is the last thing you'll see Over and over Dreams of dying fill your head It's the sign of the cross That you'll find ahead No one will answer The light is fading away Captive souls are screaming out in pain There is no escape It's the ending of your precious life Your soul slipped away It belongs to the Queen of the Reich You're fading away, no, no, no The Queen of the Reich You're slipping away, yeah The Queen of the Reich
I was a senior in high school in Seattle when the EP broke. These dudes were "ours". They were kind of a "big thing" around Seattle at that time. Mike Starr of Alice in Chains used to be in the band SATO out of Highline High School. Those were cool times.
From the mean streets of Bellevue 😁 Although Tate is from Tacoma.Graduated from Wilson in 1977 I believe.I was 20/21 when I bought the e.p. I'm from Puyallup originally.I remember CULPRIT playing Tiffany's Skate In around that time.Yeah, cool times.I have a friend who was in a glam-ish band with Spanaway's favorite son Jerry Cantrell. Remember "THE ROCKET" newspaper? I remember all. the stories about local bands and such. Bad Brad Sinsel and TKO 😉
Bellevue represent! One of my metal moments was schooling Geoff Tate about the history of the Scorpions at Easy Street Records at Crossroads. The owner Kim was their first manager. I bought this EP when it came out. An old friend was working at the Taco Time on Northup with the sister of guitarist Michael Wilton (Ann maybe?) so he helped me get my EP signed by the band. Wish I still had it. Great EP. The Lady Wore Black. Boy does Tate have pipes.
We listen because it is the greatest era of Rock and Metal! There will never be bands anything like Metallica, Ozzy, Priest, Maiden, Van Halen , Queensryche, Scorpions and the list goes on! This music NEVER gets old!
Agree
Amen.
I don't understand why people list off bands like this but never include UFO. Michael schenker and the rest of the band outshine everyone you just listed.
Thank god there will never be bands like Metallica, Ozzy, Priest, Maiden.
@@lsutton4193I don’t know about that. They definitely outshone queensrych, but the rest? I can’t agree with that though. Great band though. Force is a great album
Chris DeGarmo: The most underrated songwriter & lead guitarist in rock history!!!!Chris DeGarmo is Awesome!!!!
They never were the same after he left. Just today I learned Scott has left as well. Down to two. Bloody shame.
As one of the biggest Queensryche fans over the years, I couldn't agree more! I got here over the course of connecting dots on many recent artists and came across a cover of QotR which brought me to this video. I just so happened to expand the only comment that caught my eye that was 1 year old only to find out Mike posted 4 hours ago about Scott leaving. How does this happen?! Chris, Scott, original Queensryche told an amazing story over the years and I'm honored to have experienced the rise and fall in my lifetime!
Do you know what guitars they are using?
Agreed
I was never a huge fan of them but I've been listening to them more lately and I cannot understand why I wasn't a fan of them now, they have the total package
Even after all these years Geoffs vocal performance on this song sends chills through my soul .
Indeed he is awesomeness vocals no one is better them him 😘❤
Check this live perfomance: ua-cam.com/video/5ddk8X1X7Do/v-deo.html
YESSS ME 2 !!! INSANE VOCALS NO ONE CAN DUP THAT
Hard to believe this song is coming up on being 40 years old.
I personally think that they gave Seattle a bad name. Jimi Hendrix was good, heart was good, and all of the Seattle bands all the early 90s, better known as grunge, or great! I thought Queensreich were boring! I did like the "Operstion Mindcrime" album. It was really good, but adide from that...too Heavy Metal starting out, and too boring from "Empire" on up.
People say there is no God. They never heard Queensreich. We are blessed to have them in our lives. Rock On
Queensrÿche Queen Of The Reich Lyrics
In the dead of night
She'll come and take you away
Searing beams of light and thunder
Over blackened plains
She will find her way
Flying high through the night
She will hide your fate
As she takes your soul from under
And the blinding light of the castle fades
There is no escape
It's the ending of your precious life
Your soul slipped away
It belongs to the Queen of the Reich
The Queen of the Reich
Yeah she's coming for you
You're fading away
Your life cast astray
A victim the beast shall obtain
The light will not shine
For you'll die tonight at her shrine
And black is the last thing you'll see
Over and over
Dreams of dying fill your head
It's the sign of the cross
That you'll find ahead
No one will answer
The light is fading away
Captive souls are screaming out in pain
There is no escape
It's the ending of your precious life
Your soul slipped away
It belongs to the Queen of the Reich
You're fading away, No, No, No
The Queen of the Reich
You're slipping away, yeah
The Queen of the Reich
THE HISTORY WILL NEVER FORGET THE GOOD CLASSICS AND THERE ARE STILL YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LISTEN TO THESE SONGS. 1984 - 2019
You came from gta vice city stories
spot on !!
I'm 20 and have been jamming to bands like Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Dio Sabbath, Megadeth since I was 7 years old. The metal lives on.
lol not me anything from Queensryche from 1984 till whenever Jeff Tate left i think was around 2014 basically with Jeff Tate vocals
I'm 17 and I love Queensryche, they're one of my favorite bands, though only the Geoff Tate albums are good imo. Todd La Torre has nothing on Geoff
Hold on 2.7 million views ?
This should have at least 700 million views.
This song and this band is a legend.
100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These dudes played basketball in my driveway... drinkin beers and other things....
Now it's 3,1 mil. if this help.
They’ve always always always been under appreciated. Lack of radio exposure and chicks didn’t dig them like dudes did. That’s the key to any band of that era getting any heat: how many groupies lined up to both give and receive STDs. Chicks put Poison over the top, so…
Saw them open up for Dio in 1983 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium and it was a night I would never forget!!
Dude, I was at that show! Queensrÿche had just released the EP and opened for DIO on the Holy Diver tour, one of the best concerts ever with two of the greatest vocalists in rock and metal together in their prime, it was truly a night I never forgot! Another show from that era that hit me similar was my first concert just the year before with Scorpions on the Blackout tour with Iron Maiden on The Number of the Beast tour opening, at the Cow Palace I think. Man those were some incredible times! \m/
@@Valarien777 Hahahaha awesome dude! I was at that show too!! 😂
I'll etc that that concert was indescribably amazing. I love Queensryche and Dio both! I actually did get to see QR for the Building Empires tour. They were beyond amazing!
I’m 55 and just traveled back through time and danced to this like I was 15 again. Great music never grows old.
If you don’t get goosebumps from that opening scream and intro YOUR DEAD ! Still get ‘em 40 years later
Me too ✋😪😢😞🙂😕✋😪😢😞🙂😕
You can't imagine, as singers, how much we worked on those type of screams in the 80s and 90s!
The James Hetfield 'yeahyeahahyeah' stuff saved our arseses! 😁
@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn Yes, it is really true. And Geoff Tate performed this kind of mixed head voice sound without efforts while it is really difficoult to emulate this register, even with lots of singing lessons. He was really blessed by nature
Always reminds me of Highway Star by Deep Purple. Ever since I first heard this in '83! Exciting song
My grandson is only 2, but when he gets a little older, he'll be hearing some Queensryche as long as my heart is still beating.
I am 87 and a classic rock fan. Just discovered Queensryche and cannot stop listening.
So incredible! I saw them at a 16 year old back in the 80's opening for KISS at the Spectrum in Pennsylvania and was entirely enthralled thereafter. They were known as the "thinking man's metal." Keep on rocking (check out Kamelot, Circus Maximus, and TNT if you are so inclined.) :)
@@Liberty-Grunt thanks so much. I will check them out
Never too late. Enjoy the ride
Amazing
Welcome
"To be continued...."
2015 and I'm still waiting =(
+Roberto Gouvêa hahahahhahahaha!!!!!
+Roberto Gouvêa Okay I'll update. In trying to destroy the evil queen, Geoff contracted a non lethal virus from her which actually turned him into an evil queen, he continued with this for about 30 years before eventually being defeated by a dedicated band of disgruntled Queensryche fans...............To be continued (probably).............................................................
You're not alone bro...
Roberto Gouvêa TO BE CONTONDERED
........2017. and we still waiting !
I cannot believe I've never seen this before, in all the millennia I've been online. Geoff Tate was one of the first, if not the only one, to do high pitched banshee wailing correctly. I know others will say... Merciful Fate... etc... And some of that passes the grade... but nobody got it better that Geoff, and for that matter, when it come to arrangements, sound and over-all kicking ass, Original Queensryche is still among the top 10 Metal bands of all-time.
Remember hearing this on a local college radio station Saturday night metal show and getting the EP sometime between 83/84 but NEVER recall knowing a totally cheesy/awesome video existed for this song! Takes me back 40 years. Their first few albums were total 🔥
@@slayer7976 I saw them on the Empire tour (Jet City Woman, etc) (Another great album). After about 6 songs into the concert, Geoff said "We'd like to tell you a little story" And the whole place roared, knowing they were going to play all of Mindcrime. And they did. One of my fav concerts in the roughly 40 or so I've seen.
I remember driving around in my First Truck Trying to match Geoff Tate's high notes on the way to my Job at the Grocery store. What a time to be alive and young. Thought I knew it all and took myself way too serious. Just waiting for my heart to be broken by the next Fawn Eyed farm girl to cross my path. When I hear this song a whole chapter of my life flashes through my head, I hope its the same for you.
Lol ! I did the same thing !😁
Fuck yeah man. I was ripping me some tate
I bought this ep at the Record Vault in San Francisco in 83 when I was 12. A guy at the counter took pity on my lost metalhead searching and recommended that I give this a try. Put it in my Walkman ,pushed play as I rode my skateboard down Haight, I was so blown away, I don't even remember getting home, all I remember was this blasting in my ears as the street scenes passed by like a haze....Good times!!!
David Valenzuela I still blast it in my ear buds today. Never gets old.
David Valenzuela
Nice story, thanks.
Reminded me of those days when I too would ride my bike home with a new tape blasting in my ears. I would scrounge all the change in my moms purse and take off to the record store.... man the 80s....
I have a similar memory. I was about 11 when I first heard this. It was a Saturday night and I had the stereo on low as grandpa disapproved of "metal". I was blown away, even at that volume. I remember telling my elder cousin about the band the next day and he laughed at me. Few months later, I caught him listening to mindcrime.
I heard it around the same age but years later since im much younger than y'all. I listened to it so much I considered it their first "album" even though it's an ep, and to this day I get confused when people say the Warning is Queensryche's "Debut" album even though the self titled is only an ep- I guess that's the impact it made lol
the most underated metal band
Nanny Wolfe I think that's Angel Witch.
Couldn't agree more
Queensryche kicked major ass with their debut EP. But they decided to take a progressive direction and just cancelled themselves as the most underrated metal band, unfortunately.
Warlord... Savatage... Titan Force... are underrated bands... Queensryche definetely no.
If you're going to make a stupid comment at least spell check it prior to posting.
geoff tate, amazing amazing singer
Yup
He is one of the very best vocalists
It resambles Bruce Dickinson imo
@@TrixxxTC Waaaaaay better..!!!!!
@@TrixxxTC closer to the metal God I'd say. And phenomenal live!
Yesterday Geoff Performed this song in Colombia, Bogotá(29/01/2023). His voice is incredible and sounds the same as this performance, insane. ❤
I hope I get to see him again. Saw him when he was in the band in the ,80s and 99s
Going to see how the new singer holds up this weekend in Kitchener Ontario (04/11/2024) when they play the EP and The Warning in their entirety, along with Armored Saint! Can't wait!
everybody raves about geoff tate , who is LEGITIMATELY one of the all time greats , but this WHOLE BAND was GOOD ;)
The 80's music, the sound, the vocals, the music videos with real props and cool-looking special effects, the looks of the women...you just can't beat any of these, you just can't!
the scream sends chills down my spine everytime
Thats the sound chicks make when I shove my love-hammer balls deep
Haha, one of the best :)
just like in Highway Star by DP
Massive. The beginning of a great oeuvre that lasted this EP and 4 fantastic albums. This is among the best music of its time, and - for me - ever.
I'm only 22 why am I addicted to this band and genre .. friends usually make fun of me and say "why do you listen to this stuff , it's what my grandpa listens to" 😑
You're addicted to these guys because you have impeccable taste! It doesn't matter how young you are, good music stands the test of time 🤘🤘
Because no human can resist amazing music writing. This "stuff" is the hardest to play and sing. Trust me I have been singing for years and I have to give it my all to sing it..
Audrey,you should make it your mission to get your fellow GenZers into 80s metal.🤘
Us grandpa's know real talent and music when we hear it and lived it!
Bc you have good taste. I guess not everyone does 🔥💗
Queensryche
Hi
Long time fan. I remember recording this video on VHS from MTV's Headbanger's Ball probably late '80's or early '90's. I watched it over and over.
I even had the Album on tape cassette.
I loved the videos like these. Some of the newer bands are going back to the older theatrical video formats.
I had always hoped to see another video that tied in with a continuation of Queen Of The Ryche.
Anyway, due to the fact that I had lost my VHS tapes when I became homeless for a few weeks back in 1996, I am so happy to find this video here on UA-cam.
Thanks for the good memories.
Keep Rockin'!
One of the best heavy metal screams!!!
no, that was in Highway Star by Deep Purple
@@tothandras1741 I would argue Dickinson on wrathchild.
@@jamesbuckner4791 XD
@@jamesbuckner4791 bruh
@@jamesbuckner4791 that would be Diano on wrathchild as Bruce was first on NOB album.
In my honest opinion this is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever! If you would to introduce someone to heavy metal who never heard it before this is a great song to start with. It has almost everything killer vocals, fantasy themed lyrics, driving riffs & blasting drums.
But they'd be on and endless search for vocals like this and quickly get discouraged lol
Still my favorite Queensryche song of all time.
Jim Ploechl Mine too ! Great dueling guitars, thundering drums and phenomenal vocals! They had it all...
mine too !!
Jim Ploechl mine too. Also love. Operation Mindcrime.
same here :)
mine too!!! 2020 here by the way
what a Voice ! At his peak, he couldn't be touched !
Heard him 11 days ago. Belted out this one. Mind blowing!!! Still has the f’ing range that he had 40 years ago. How is that even possible?!!
He's in the top 5 of greatest rock voices ever.
The absolute best band I ever saw live (mid eighties). The lead singer sounds exactly like this live. His mike went out during the show and you could still hear him in the arena. Amazing show!
The first 40 seconds is my favorite intro for a rock song. Just killer! You don't have to sit and wonder if this song is gonna finally kick into gear at some point. Grabs you right from the start.
Fucken A
This was a great era to be a teen. So much fantastic metal was out and coming out each month. Today .... I cant tell todays bands apart. This gem is from the days when bands all had a sound. You couldn't cover it accurately. Now any pub act can cover the so called top metal acts as they all have the same vocal and guitar sounds.
vladlashing Well today we have Sabaton and Powerwolf, their not quite like the music from the late 70s to mid 90s, but I’d say their distinguishable and are pretty good.
Couldn't agree more. Started with Iron Maiden and I never looked back.
There are some pretty good bands out there today, but you have to look to find them. The popular "metal" scene is blah. The vocals all sound exactly the same. The sorry assed tone of the guitars too.
There are great metal bands today. Defecto, Primal Fear, Cain's Offering, Stratovarius, Enemy Inside, Megadeth (still king), Dream Evil, Beast in Black, Adagio, Dynazty, Judas Priest (still powerful as ever), and many many more
I agree. I was also teenager in eighties.
How lucky we were!
Back when metal was great! Geoff's voice is still unbeatable today. Such a shame there is no more Queensryche.
Ok I'm not going lie, the first time I heard this was in 2006 on GTA VCS. And no shit I swear to God I thought it was Bruce Dickinson of iron maiden singing, they sound very similar to me.
Then I listened to silent lucidity and was like wow, this guy has some serious vocal range. This band is awesome
Please bring back the 80's....!!! Best decade ever...!!!
Yes!!!!!!!!!
#bringbackthe80s
Amen...the best period...
Easy.... you don't have to tone low to be heavy..😂🤣... if anyone knows that reference. 👌
Yes, but then came the grunge. And they got their grunge on everything. So much grunge it stopped the lead solos for awhile, BUT! Metal lived on! And where is the grunge? Washed away by all that Seattle rain. Ironic that the whole grunge thing came out of the same city that produced Queensryche.
LOL The most kitschy maybe. But yes, it was funny 😊
When I was a deployed marine in Okinawa (1988) there was a club near Camp Hansen called the East Coast Club that had a screen as one of the walls. The first time I ever walked in this was playing on the screen and it was so loud it shook the club!
MrGreenwood8 That has got to be 'one for the record books' of your memories... Hell Yeahhhhh!! musta been incredibly Rad! 🤘
That's amazing. They got big in Japan
I was deployed to Oki in '94 and '96! They still had the screen there, and I would always request this--much to the annoyance of the other Marines in the place, who would rather have been listening to Soundgarden or Tool. Oh well, tough breaks!
I'm going there next time I hit Okinawa! If I ever get liberty, that is. 😂 Although I'm probably gonna hear the mainstream rap that these fucking kids listen to now-a-days. 🙄
BY FAR, One of the TOP US Power Metal songs in History of Metal Music! \m/
BOLLOCKS
Although this song is Power metal
Just Heavy Metal....
True.
Queensryche is one of the greatest Metal bands of all time ! The Warning, Rage For Order and, especially, Operation: Mindcrime are fantastic albums. Undoubtedly, Operation: Mindcrime is a milestone to the further development of Heavy Metal music, the so-called Progressive Metal.
The band never did recover after he left Chris that is. Chris DeGarmo is never underrated to those of us who know. Chris we all miss you and so does queensryche. There's only 5 guys that deserves to be in this band, and we ALL know who they are.
Moral of the story of this video ....
Without Geoff the rest of the band is frozen in time.
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robhalfordtate Damn right!
Your right , without geoff they should retire
And without chris degarmo
Chris and Geoff were the heart and soul of the band. They were the storytellers. You couldn't pay me to go see the current line up. Nothing against TLT as a vocalist, but for me, it hurts me to my core to hear him sing Geoff's songs.
mskARin888 indeed. Geoff's voice and Degarmo guitar skills ..bottom line between Operation Mindcrime and Empire, that was the height and demise of the band. best they ever composed.
Incredible vocal range, love it
When I was back in high school, KLOS of Los Angeles was giving away tickets to the first 100 callers to Queensryche at the Hollywood Palladium. A few weeks prior, for another concert, I had heard the DJ laughing at one of the winners who used the San Diego phone number to 'sneak' in for a win. So, I figured, what the heck; I dialed the San Diego number probably running up the phone bill for my parents, and voila! I won tickets. I couldn't get the car that night, so a metal head friend with an old 70's Cadillac Coupe de Ville hand me down car was invited, and it was quite the show. If I remember, the opening act was Carmine Appice's King Cobra. Oh, and I got a cassette of one of the albums which was played on the way home in my buddy's car, LOL
Nice, that San Diego phone number probably had a 714 area code.
Everthing from the 60's to 90's really shaped music with energy and adventure, almost like a endless indiana jones movie and soundtrack all mixed in perfect balance!
F'n Queensryche, there is no substitute!! Have seen Geoff 2 x's in the last 1 year, and at 63 he still absolutely crushes it, night after night.. his voice has held up extremely well!!
How does he sing like that? Damn!
tight pants.
"He eats a lot of pussy!"
Mixed voice
Mixed emotions.
The singer, Geoff Tate, was instructed as a teenager by his aunt, who was an opera singer. He learned proper breathing technique and he could bridge the gap between chest voice and falsetto with no break.....and of course with great power.
This is my all timd fave queensryche song ever made, first time i heard it it gave me the best fucking metal feeling ever
Fun fact:They got their name from this song.Queenreich sounded too nazi ish so it was changed to Queensryche.
"metal feeling" yeah man that's a thing that cannot be described. when your ears fill with a sound that makes you shiver....
Tristan Hall YES! Mine too..it never gets old...great vocals - excellent guitar riffs and explosive damn drums!
Rock the fuck on bitches! \m/ \m/
Seen them play as a support band to the late great Dio and have loved this band ever since
Joe Buckley lucky dude , i saw dio 1994 with freak of nature
Still waiting for Part II...
Dan Steffens We are Part 2. The smartphones have consumed our minds.
Can anyone name a truly better song by Queensryche? I cant.
For sure one of the best Heavy Metal songs ever written
I sure miss Tate!! I have loved this band since they began, and will forever....
Darbi Dunn
Ewe, you’re old, yuck. (Lol)
J/K, me too.
Absolutely amazing
This song shreds!!! Geoff's vocals are so powerful!
Tate could have sung anything and made it a hit imho. The fact he and the band wrote and performed songs decades ago that are both relevant and powerful today is a testament to their genius.
To answer your question of why you are addicted to this band ! Nothing that is written or sung currently even compares talent wise just pure talent and work! No auto tune no fluff no bullshit just raw music!
I’m seeing them next month. Wisconsin
Awesome band! Tate's vocals are incredible!
This video is like a mix between Star Wars and Flash Gordon
Aaron Nielsen And Downs Syndrome
Aaron Nielsen bam!!
Haha, exactly! it's like kissing your sister :)
I'd say Conan and Terminator
More like Star Crash and Flesh Gordon (the erotic parody).
I remember my brother gave me this record . I was loving this album .
I remember this song when I was a kid, never forgotten. That voice though!!! 😅🙏🏽
How old are you now okay I'm 53 and my wife is 55 okay let me know okay
当時、日本ではかなり高評価の新人でした。
ジューダスプリーストの申し子、ハードロック界の若き貴公子など
I found Queensryche when Empire came out and I was hooked!
I had to listen to as much as I could.
Thanks, Queensryche for giving us so much kick ass music!
Geoff Tates voice rocks! The top of the business!
I love Queensryche, but let me make it clear that it's Queensryche with Geoff Tate and I would have preferred American Soldier came before they could have that wrong step into grunge that led to Chris De Garmo no longer in the band or has he come back? One thing is for sure- without Geoff I just don't see it. However, let me just say Queensryche is important to me hugely important. This was my first heavy metal song I loved. Back when I was only 8 or 9 years old and it was everything Queensryche for a long time. I didn't used to be able to sing at all, but now I can sing 2 octaves at least and it was Judas Priest, Queensryche, Iron Maiden, and softer bands not really metal that led to that. Practice practice practice. I think this band are probably a strongly good choice for most perfect and refined progressive metal band, but the grungy period was not something I could get into. It's sad he left and got really disillusioned again maybe for the last time.
Remember, Chris was part of that grunge garbage sound as well, he is not faultless in the band going astray.
1:58 Fucking lol at the drummer. Pounding that shit to dust.
The real priest. Tipton and Downing, neither are replaceable, and the distinctive sound of that duo will never be replicated, ever.
This great bands name originally was The Mobs.. One of the first songs they wrote was “Queen of the Reich.” About a year later, The Mob was courted by Easy Street Records’ Kim and Diana Harris, and their manager urged them to change their name. Exhausted from trying to think of replacements, they settled on plucking a couple of words from the aforementioned track and then changing “reich” to “rÿche” (which can mean “realm”)
when the total awesomeness of the song completely negates the cheese of the video , and we watch again , and again , and again ;)
Ragazzi che tempi!!!
Geoff la tua voce è insostituibile ed irripetibile
Grazie di esistere❤️
Ahh, the 80s. The decade of cheese videos. The song and EP are still bloody amazing.
A great combination of a fabulous singer with super talented musicians. The amount of talent coming out of this band is way beyond the norm. They are definitely on the front line in my book!!!
Got an opportunity to see them live in Toronto
Opened for Metallica 1989
🤘😎🤘🇨🇦🤘😎🤘
The first time time I saw them was In 1982 , with that EP album, amazing , in Montreal
Saw Queensryche open up for Judas Priest a few weeks ago and this is one of the songs that really stuck with me. Fantastic band, and still bringing it live!
I saw them on that tour also, the new vocalist impressed me. They sounded tight.
One of the best yet underrated bands of that era!
Talented band . Seen them live at Monsters of Rock 1980s.
Many elements in this music video didn't exist back in 1981. When this was created. Virtual reality, flatscreen ,computers, drone video monitors... art created future reality? Excellent directed and edited music video
Lucky ♥
I saw them when they only had the EP out at a small club in Boston OMG blew me away -- That voice - such an amazing band
one of THE most memorable screams in Metal.
influenced by Highway Star
Who else had the cassette copy with the same program on both sides? Great times!!
No metal singer can mess with Tate in his prime . Unlike the others this man had SOUL in his voice too . 4 octaves. Yes Tate is winning!
Rob halford cam hit 4 notes higher than pat benatar.
@@lsutton4193He can’t touch Tate in his prime
I was 14 when Operation mindcrime came out. The 80’s needed you guys.
The perfect image for those 80's Sci fi low budget films... 36 years and we are still waiting the finish.
Lyric :
In the dead of night
She'll come and take you away
Searing beams of light and thunder
Over blackened plains
She will find her way
Flying high through the night
She will hide your fate
As she takes your soul from under
And the blinding light of the castle fades
There is no escape
It's the ending of your precious life
Your soul slipped away
It belongs to the Queen of the Reich
The Queen of the Reich
Yeah she's coming for you
You're fading away
Your life cast astray
A victim the beast shall obtain
The light will not shine
For you'll die tonight at her shrine
And black is the last thing you'll see
Over and over
Dreams of dying fill your head
It's the sign of the cross
That you'll find ahead
No one will answer
The light is fading away
Captive souls are screaming out in pain
There is no escape
It's the ending of your precious life
Your soul slipped away
It belongs to the Queen of the Reich
You're fading away, no, no, no
The Queen of the Reich
You're slipping away, yeah
The Queen of the Reich
Man, I really like these guys! Miss real music like this; never get old.
I was a senior in high school in Seattle when the EP broke. These dudes were "ours". They were kind of a "big thing" around Seattle at that time. Mike Starr of Alice in Chains used to be in the band SATO out of Highline High School. Those were cool times.
From the mean streets of Bellevue 😁
Although Tate is from Tacoma.Graduated from Wilson in 1977 I believe.I was 20/21 when I bought the e.p.
I'm from Puyallup originally.I remember CULPRIT playing Tiffany's Skate In around that time.Yeah, cool times.I have a friend who was in a glam-ish band with Spanaway's favorite son Jerry Cantrell.
Remember "THE ROCKET" newspaper? I remember all. the stories about local bands and such.
Bad Brad Sinsel and TKO 😉
Bellevue represent! One of my metal moments was schooling Geoff Tate about the history of the Scorpions at Easy Street Records at Crossroads. The owner Kim was their first manager.
I bought this EP when it came out. An old friend was working at the Taco Time on Northup with the sister of guitarist Michael Wilton (Ann maybe?) so he helped me get my EP signed by the band. Wish I still had it. Great EP. The Lady Wore Black. Boy does Tate have pipes.
Favorite band of all time!!! I started listening to them at 15, Im 55 now, and I still LOVE them! Fk yeah!
Same
I remember hearing this in GTA Vice City stories as a teenager and the song blew me away.
Pure early '80's US metal, video as well as the track. Superb vocals by Geoff Tate, good job there were no glass windows on set!
After all these years this song still rocks hard 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This band never received the credit it deserved . Geoff Tate alone is phenomenal, what a singer !
Best Metal vocalist ever, I don't care what anybody says.
Super cheezy video to an epic song. I loved this EP
My first time seeing this video. I've danced to this song, on stage, over 200 times lol. Thanks
They really showed their Sabbath admiration with this one.
From the very first moment I heard this, I thought it was the quintessential metal song. 35 years later I still do. It's perfect.
The dude could sing. Holy buckets
Even now in 2023, I'm still waiting for the sequel.
Música dos anos 80 e ainda é melhor que muitas de 2018, o mundo perdeu sua graça e sua verdadeira arte
Genius to drive on this song in Gta VSC
yesss
What a masterpiece...Queensryche has a very special place in my heart.
This is the greatest music video of all time. The cheese level is a thing of legends
Dio and Hear 'N aid bring me to see Geoff, my ears falling in love for the first time when I'm hearing that phenomenal voice