QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre recently spoke with BigMusicGeek.com and the subject of some fans continuing to be reluctant to embrace him as a full-fledged member of the band came up. “I still get [resistance from some of them],” he admitted. “People are, like, ‘This guy’s a hack’, ‘He sings like a dead cat’, ‘He...
QUEENSRŸCHE have announced that they will be reissuing 1988’s ‘Operation: Mindcrime’ and 1990’s follow-up ‘Empire’, remastered on varying formats through Capitol/UMe on June 25. In addition to the original QUEENSRŸCHE classics remastered for CD and 180-gram vinyl 2LP, both titles will be available in expanded 2CD editions and in multi-disc CD+DVD box sets that stand...
Former QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate took to the stage to perform the band’s classic albums “Rage For Order” and “Empire” in their entirety this past Friday (May 28) in Everett, Washington for the “Empire 30th Anniversary Tour”. Fan-filmed video footage from the show, filmed at the Historic Everett Theatre, can be seen just below this...
QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Parker Lundgren was absent from the band’s show this past Friday (May 21) at the Chiefs Event Center at Shoshone-Bannock Casino in Fort Hall, Idaho. Stepping in to fill the role was Mike Stone, who joined QUEENSRŸCHE for their 2003 album “Tribe” and would stay with the band for six years. Stone would...
Drummer Scott Rockenfield has posted a demo version of the QUEENSRŸCHE song “Toxic Remedy” on his Queensryche2021.com website. The final track was originally included on the band’s 2015 album “Condition Hüman”. Scott launched the new website earlier this month, despite not playing with QUEENSRŸCHE in more than four years, and posted to his Facebook page...
QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Todd La Torre is selling one of four remaining pairs of drum sticks that were used by drummer Scott Rockenfield during the recording of the band’s 2013 self-titled album. Says Todd: “After drum recordings were completed, Scott gave me these sticks, to which I went to the studio kitchen to roll them up...
QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre has called the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame a “joke of an organization”. LaTorre, much like many others, made the comment out of the growing frustration within the metal community over the perceived lack of respect for the genre b the institution. Even though artists are eligible for the...
The annual Monsters Of Rock cruise is returning in 2022 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Departing out of Miami, Florida, promoter On The Blue announced the five-day/five-night full-ship charter cruise will set sail February 9-14 aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas, visit two ports in CocoCay, Bahamas and Labadee, Haiti, and features performances from...
Drummer Scott Rockenfield has created a cryptic new QUEENSRŸCHE-centric web site that implies he is planning a return to live music. Rockenfield who hasn’t performed with QUEENSRŸCHE in more than four years, took to his Facebook page yesterday to write: “R ya READY TO F***in’ ROCK !!!?? ….I AM !!!!!!! — bruhahahha… www.queensryche2021.com *Welcome to...
QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre is pretty pissed at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for lifting the indoor capacity restrictions for restaurants, bars, and businesses. Abbott also got rid of statewide mask mandates, which take effect next week. Effective March 10, all businesses in Texas will be allowed to open at full capacity for the first...