QUEENSRYCHE SURVIVOR 2017 - Operation: Mindcrime II - FINAL round 15 !!

[The Silent Cody]

10. OPERATION: MINDCRIME II

Operation: Mindcrime II is the ninth studio album by Queensr˙che. It is a concept album and the sequel to the group's 1988 release, Operation: Mindcrime, which had achieved both critical and commercial success. Mindcrime II was released on April 4, 2006 in the United States, on March 29 in Japan, on March 31 in Germany, and on April 3 in the rest of world, with the Rhino Entertainment label providing distribution. Following the split between Geoff Tate and the rest of Queensr˙che in 2012, it was revealed in a sworn declaration by producer Jason Slater that the album received very limited contributions from the band members aside from Tate and Mike Stone. Much of the music was recorded by studio musicians due to conflicts between Tate and his band mates. Drummer Scott Rockenfield did not play on the album at all. As well, most of the guitars, including Michael Wilton's tracks, were re-recorded by engineer Mitch Doran. Some of the bass tracks used are demo recordings played by Slater, while the drum track to "I'm American" is a MIDI recording made by Doran that was not originally intended for use on the final album

LINE-UP:
- Geoff Tate - vocals
- Mike Stone - guitar, vocals
- Jason Slater - bass, drums, backing vocals and maybe even more
- Mitch Doran - additional drums, another guitar, backing vocals, midi
- Ashif Hakik - orchestration, keyboards, guitars again
- Matt Lucich - drums, not additional this time...
- Miranda Tate - backing vocals
- Ronnie James Dio - vocals
- Pamela Moore - vocals

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15TH FINAL ROUND RESULTS!:
Hostage - 3 (37.5%)
The Hands - 5 (62.5%)

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14TH ROUND TIEBREAKER RESULTS:
The Hands - 3 (33.3%)
Re-Arrange You - 6 (66.7%)

1. Hostage
2. The Hands
3. Re-Arrange You
4. Murderer ?
5. I'm American
6. The Chase
7. One Foot In Hell
8. Fear City Slide
9. A Junkie's Blues
10. If I Could Change It All
12. Signs Say Go / All The Promises
13. An Intentional Confrontation
14. Speed Of Light
15. Circles
16. Freiheit Ouverture
17. Convict [/B]

Re-Arrange You is gone at last and it's going nowhere because only two songs from OM II are qualified further haha ! Now, let's show some love to The Hands - I'm voting Hostage.

[IDontNotDoThings]

#1. All The Promises
#2. If I Could Change It All
#3. A Junkie's Blues
#4. Circles
#5. Murderer?
#6. Hostage
#7. The Hands
#8. An Intentional Confrontation
#9. Re-Arrange You
10. The Chase
11. Fear City Slide
12. I'm American
13. Speed Of Light
14. One Foot In Hell
15. Freiheit Overture
16. Signs Say Go
17. Convict

Overall, not a good result, but I accept that I'm in the minority of opinions on this album anyway, so it's not really surprising.

That said, I am excited to move on to the next album because I'm kinda tired of overplaying OM2 practically non-stop. I have a tendency of doing that. 

[The Silent Cody]

Yeah, and I am tired of listening to American Soldier... It's not a bad album but I'm always falling asleep somewhere in the middle and I have to figure out what songs should go first from that one and still, I don't know...

[Mladen]

Hostage

Bring on American Soldier.

[jjrock88]

hands

[The Silent Cody]

We have the winner - Hostage. And Hostage is going into the finals, while my favourite - The Hands is qualified into consolations. Not so good results for me. Murderer ? and The Hands were my favourites... Thank You for that part of Queensryche survivor! American Soldier is next!