QUEENSRYCHE Dedicated To Chaos CD (2011)

Context matters here. Dedicated to Chaos landed in 2011, deep in the troubled final chapter of Queensrÿche's Geoff Tate era, a period the band's own members would later describe as a creative hostage situation. Make of that what you will.

For collectors and completists, this is the missing piece before the split that produced two touring versions of the band and one of heavy metal's messier legal dramas. The album itself leans toward the slick, polished rock direction Tate had been steering toward for years, a long way from Operation: Mindcrime or Empire, and prog metal purists will tell you so at length. But it's a document of a band at a crossroads, which gives it a strange historical weight. If you're building out the full catalogue or just curious what the fuss was about, here it is.

2011 full length album, standard CD. USA release. Heavy/power/prog metal.

Fans of: Helloween, Dokken, Iron Maiden, Rush, Dream Theater, Dio, Crimson Fate.