Just bought the new album last week after having written this band off many years ago.
I am blown away by how good "Condition Human" is.
This is the album Queensryche should have made after "Empire" Instead we got some pretty mediocre albums followed by some horrible albums followed by a whole lot of drama culminating with the washed up lead vocalist
finally leaving the band and allowing them to go back to actually making good music again.
I predict a solid comeback similar to Iron Maiden's reunion and eventual return to form.
Todd La Torre is godlike on this thing.
And this may be the best lineup QR have ever had.
Parker Lundgren's guitar solos are pretty fucking sweet too.
I have to give this one 4.5 of 5 stars. A few minor gripes with the production values prevent me from giving it a 5.0 but in terms of performances it's definitely a 5.0