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Geoff Tate: “Some Songs are Reminiscent of old Queensryche on New ‘Sweet Oblivion’ Project”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 25, 2019
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Alan Dixon from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently caught up with ex Queensryche singer Geoff Tate prior to his performance on the current Avantasia tour in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on May 23 2019. Tate Spoke about recording and performing with Tobias Sammet‘s Avantasia, new album and project Sweet Oblivion which will be released June 14 on Frontiers, current solo tour and Queensryche.

Watch the interview here:

When asked about recording and performing with Avantasia
“Tobias Sammet typically writes for the singer, he writes something within that singer’s range and melodic interests. Tobias is very talented, very easy and wonderful to work with. During the writing process we send each other ideas back and forth, the virtual studio, the Internet. Then when we get close to where we like it, we meet up at a physical studio, in this case in Frankfurt, Germany and record it there.

I am having a great time not only in the recording studio but out on the road touring. The band rehearsed for abut two weeks before all the singers came then we had a week of rehearsals with the singers and then we hit the road. ”

When asked about his new project ‘Sweet Oblivion’ and it’s musical Direction
“It’s the name of an album I did with a wonderful Italian guitar player named Simone Mularoni he and i put this album together. Some of the songs are kid of reminiscent of older Queensryche.”

When asked about his current tour playing all of the Opertaion Mindcrime album
“I started touring the Operation Mindcrime album in it’s entirety as a 30 year celebration of the album . The tour went through 24 countries and I am still doing dates and I think it ends in June 2019 in North America about two weeks left. Then I think I am finished touring with that and I can do something else.”

“Moonglow” was released on February 15 via Nuclear Blast. The album debuted at No. 1 in Germany and also cracked the Top 10 in Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and Spain.

Frontiers Music Srl has announced the release of an exciting new project featuring legendary former QUEENSRŸCHE and current OPERATION: MINDCRIME singer Geoff Tate on lead vocals, dubbed SWEET OBLIVION on June 14.

“Sweet Oblivion” track listing:

01. True Colors
02. Sweet Oblivion
03. Behind Your Eyes
04. Hide Away
05. My Last Story
06. A Recess From My Fate
07. Transition
08. Disconnect
09. The Deceiver
10. Seek The Light

Produced by: Simone Mularoni

Lineup:

Geoff Tate – Vocals
Simone Mularoni – Guitars, Bass
Emanuele Casali – Keyboards
Paolo Caridi – Drums

AVANTASIA Release New Lyric Video For ‘Alchemy’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 19, 2019
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After triumphantly storming the worldwide charts with new album Moonglow, TOBIAS SAMMET‘s AVANTASIA are premiering an official lyric video for the track ‘Alchemy’, which features the distinctive vocals of ex-Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tate. Watch the new lyric video for ‘Alchemy’:

TOBIAS SAMMET comments: “When I wrote ‘Alchemy’ I had no one but Geoff Tate in mind. He is one of the most influential singers in the history of Melodic Metal and I have always adored albums like QUEENSRYCHE’s ‘Rage For Order’ and ‘Operation Mindcrime’. And that type of singing was exactly what I imagined to hear in AVANTASIA. When we were in the studio there was magic in the air, Geoff delivered and even though thousands of singers have been inspired by him, there is only one Geoff Tate. What a great addition to the AVANTASIA family. I can‘t wait to travel around the globe with Geoff and the team in a couple of days.”

TOBIAS SAMMET has long been recognized as one of the most accomplished German rock musicians, with releases and chart success in 40 countries across world. Moonglow charted as follows:

– GERMANY   #1
– SWEDEN Rock/ Metal  #1
– UK Rock Top 40     #1
– SWITZERLAND  #3
– AUSTRIA  #4
– CANADA Hard Music Albums   #5
– FINLAND physical    #5
– SPAIN    #5
– USA Current Hard Music Albums    #5
– SWEDEN     #6
– CZECH REPUBLIK   #8
– SCOTLAND     #9
– FINLAND   #13
– JAPAN (western music)   #13
– CANADA Top Current Albums   #17
– FRANCE TOP 150 physical and download    #22
– ITALY    #31
– UK    #38
– BELGIUM VL    #38
– FRANCE TOP 150     #43
– USA Top Albums    #46
– NETHERLANDS    #83
– BELGIUM WA   #121

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AVANTASIA’s latest opus, Moonglow is a masterpiece in rock, that ignores the conventional way of creating music and transports fans into a new and magical world. Barricading himself in his studio, aptly called The Great Mystery, Tobias worked tirelessly on new material, until finally 11 tracks were brought together to form Moonglow. „It’s beautiful to see how this worked out for me with a sound, for which – according to the opinion of some experts – there is no place in this generic mainstream-world. And the best thing is: Fans all around the world love the record and we can kick off our world-tour knowing of their support and have lots of fun!“, comments TOBIAS SAMMET on his first #1 in his home country.

»Moonglow« can be ordered here: http://nblast.de/AvantasiaMoonglow

‘Moonglow’ (video): https://youtu.be/Mk0FTHqmO9o
‘Moonglow’ (lyric video): https://youtu.be/vZGQ1LsdCUM
‘The Raven Child’ (lyric video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTN2ZzpQRh4

Watch also the album-trailers, to get more information about the album:
Trailer #1:https://youtu.be/CVSU5VP_U2o
Trailer #2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy-gyWoKPTQ
Trailer #3:https://youtu.be/9cicqsmk8-4

AVANTASIA – »Moonglow World Tour 2019«
Presented by Metal Hammer, Piranha, Musix, Rock It!
27.03.   SK   Presov – Tatran Handball Aréna
28.03.   SK   Bratislava – Hant Aréna
30.03.   DE   Kaufbeuren – All-Karthalle *SOLD OUT*
31.03.   IT   Milan – Alcatraz
02.04.   CZ   Prague – Forum Karlín *SOLD OUT*
03.04.   DE   Berlin – Huxleys Neue Welt
05.04.   DE   Ludwigsburg – MHP Arena *SOLD OUT*
06.04.   DE   Bamberg – Brose Arena
08.04.   DE   Fulda – Esperantohalle
09.04.   DE   Saarbrücken – Saarlandhalle
10.04.   FR   Paris – Olympia
12.04.   DE   Osnabrück – Osnabrück Halle
13.04.   DE   Hamburg – Mehr! Theater *SOLD OUT*
14.04.   DE   Oberhausen – König-Pilsener-Arena
16.04.   UK   London – The Forum
18.04.   DE   Offenbach – Stadthalle
19.04.   CH   Pratteln – Z7
20.04.   CH   Pratteln – Z7 *SOLD OUT*
21.04.   CH   Pratteln – Z7
24.04.   ES   Bilbao – Santana 27
26.04.   ES   Barcelona – Razzmatazz 1
27.04.   ES   Madrid – Palacio Vistalegre
02.05.   SE   Stockholm – Arenan
04.05.   RU   Moscow – Glavclub Green Concert
06.05.   HU   Budapest – Barba Negra Track
09.05.   JP   Tokyo – Blitz Akasaka
12.05.   AU   Sydney – Metro Theatre
14.05.   AU   Melbourne – The Forum
17.05.   US   San Jose, CA – City National Civic
19.05.   US   Anaheim, CA – City National Grove
21.05.   US   Chicago, IL – Patio Theater
23.05.   CA   Montreal, QC – Metropolis
24.05.   US   Worcester, MA – Palladium
26.05.   MEX  Mexico City – Auditorio BlackBerry
29.05.   RCH  Santiago – Teatro Caupolican
31.05.   RA    Buenos Aires – El Teatro Flores
02.06.   BR    São Paulo – Espaço das América

Festivals: 
11. – 13.07.     D         Balingen – Bang Your Head!!!
11. – 14.07.     CZ       Vizovice – Masters of Rock
09.- 11.08.     B         Kortrijk – Alcatraz Metal Festival
14. – 17.08.     D         Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze
18.08.            BG       Varna – Varna Rock
23.08.            D         Giessen – Giessener Kultursommer

More dates to be announced soon…!

LACEBLACK To Support OPERATION: MINDCRIME In Italy

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 14, 2019
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Rome-based rock band LACEBLACK, led by vocalist and songwriter Luca Celletti, will have the prestigious honour to open the former QUEENSRYCHE singer Geoff Tate’s concert on February 22nd at the Borderline Club in Pisa. Facebook Event-page here.

Geoff Tate will be performing with his band, OPERATION: MINDCRIME, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary tour of the album with the same name, one of the most important music records in rock history which, released in 1988, is still a reference for the fans of this musical genre.

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With millions of records sold together with QUEENSRYCHE, Geoff Tate is undoubtedly one of the most appreciated singers in Rock and Metal, and he played a prominent role in the Golden Age of Rock, along with artists like Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osborne, Ronnie James Dio, etc.

LACEBLACK is currently working on an international production for its original songs and has already took part in important events, as an opening act to Scottish vocalist Doogie White (Rainbow, Ynwie J. Malmsteen, Michael Schenker), Sanremo Rock contest (finalist), Dorset Festival in England, Earth Day Concert in Rome, Vertical Movie Festival in Rome, and also playing several gigs in Europe, including some clubs in London (The Fiddler’s Elbow, The Monarch) and Budapest.

LACEBLACK are:
Luca Celletti/lead vocals
Francesco Savarese /Guitar
Massimiliano Giusti/guitar
Andrea Tonnicchi/bass
Massimo Marraccini/drums

More information at https://www.facebook.com/pg/LaceBlack-418475308307144

QUEENSRYCHE’s Geoff Tate: “OPERATION:MINDCRIME Story being worked by very famous screenwriter and very successful Producer”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 29, 2017
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former QUEENSRYCHE singer Geoff Tate about his new OPERATION:MINDCRIME Album ‘A New Reality’, Pt.3 as well as a charity song that he will be releasing, OPERATION:MINDCRIME as a movie, The Trinity, 3 Tremours and takes fan questions.

Watch the interview here:

When speaking about the new charity single he just finished recording
“I just finished a song that I am planning to release, for my charity that I support which is called MERCY WATCH. Which is a homeless support charity that finds doctors, social workers and drug counselors. It helps place homeless people in programs where they can get better and get onto a more productive life. That single is going to be going up for sale on itunes I believe around Christmas.” (under the Geoff Tate banner)

When asked if he would ever collaborate again with Chris Degarmo
“Chris and I we had our time, we had quite a lot of success working and like all relationships, unless you really guard them and really nurture and take care of them, you kind of drift apart. It’s inevitable. In our case you know he had other things he wanted to do with his life and his wife was very in need of him staying home and not touring. He had two young children at the time. We parted ways and you honour and respect the work you did together. No communication in quiet awhile.”

When asked about if he would continue the three Tremors Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson and the Trinity Project with Blaze and Ripper Owens
” No the three Tremours was never meant to be anything, it was actually diner conversation that we were having on tour, when we were all touring together. Somebody overheard us talking it and before you knew it everybody was expecting a record.”

“As for the Trinity, the biggest challenge is our schedules it’s really difficult to align especially with Blaze, so we are trying to get more dates in different parts of the world. I for one had a great time working with those guys, they are absolutely madmen and so talented and so fun to be around.”

When asked if he would consider making Operation Mindcrime a movie
“The Operation Mindcrime story has been almost a movie at least six times in my memory. It’s actually being worked by very famous screenwriter and very successful producer right now. And whether it sees the light of day as a film is yet to be seen. It’s a journey, screenplays they take years to come to movie screens. There are all kinds of deals, compromises different people come in and rewrite and all that. They want your screen play idea and then they take that and hire their friend to rewrite it, everybody wants to rewrite it.”

When asked him about the current political situation in the world
“I find it is a fascination time to be alive now in the 21st century, especially in America a lot of people see this turmoil that our country is in as being very upsetting, In a way it is. I look at it as a growth period, this reckoning. It’s a time of change where we are analyzing ourselves and we are pushing those boundaries our parents laid on us and their parents laid on them. We are drawing new lines about what is right and what is wrong and that takes discussion with everybody involved. Like who are we as Americans, we don’t really have an American identity like a lot of countries have.”

Geoff Tate had to suddenly drop off the interview cause he was in the hospital and was called 41:05

OPERATION: MINDCRIME To Release “The New Reality” On December 1st

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 15, 2017
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Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the release of “The New Reality” on December 1, 2017. “The New Reality” is the third and final chapter in the musical trilogy from iconic metal vocalist Geoff Tate that follows a little over one year after the release of the second chapter, “Resurrection”, in 2016 and about two years after the first chapter, “The Key”. OPERATION: MINDCRIME is a creative platform that continues in the spirit of the historic album of the same name, spawning concepts as grand as the music, and intertwining the intensity of the former Queensrÿche vocalist’s iconic past with the provocative, progressive mindset that has made him one of music’s most resolute forces and frontmen. Joined by a cast of musicians, Kelly Gray, John Moyer, Simon Wright, Scott Mercado, Scott Moughton, Brian Tichy & Mike Ferguson, whose talent and resumes speak volumes for the quality of musicianship that will be on display here, “The New Reality” is a another fine progressive rock/metal entry from Tate.

Geoff Tate sold more than 25 million records at the helm of Queensryche, the band he fronted for 30 years from their inception through 2012, earning three Grammy nominations, five MTV Music Video Award nominations, and one MTV Music Video Award along the way. The landmark concept album “Operation: Mindcrime” thrust Tate’s unique social consciousness, style and expertly crafted lyrics into the national spotlight in 1988, and was followed by “Empire” in 1990, the album that delivered Queensryche to arena-headlining status and sold more than 3 million albums on the back of hit singles and radio staples, “Silent Lucidity” and “Jet City Woman.” By the time the band released “Promised Land” in 1994, Geoff Tate was universally acknowledged as one of the greatest frontmen in rock and metal, and a driving force behind one of the most innovative bands in mainstream music. From “Operation: Mindcrime to “Promised Land” through 2009’s overlooked gem “American Soldier” – Tate’s ambitious concept album that explores the consequences of war as told through the voices of veterans – Tate’s 13 album tenure with Queensryche was marked by exploration, intrigue, bold risks and gratifying results. “The New Reality” carries on that musically adventurous tradition.

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Track Listing:

1. A Head Long Jump
2. Wake Me Up
3. It Was Always You
4. The Fear
5. Under Control
6. The New Reality
7. My Eyes
8. A Guitar In Church?
9. All For What?
10. The Wave
11. Tidal Change
12. The Same Old Story

Band Members: 
Geoff Tate, Kelly Gray, John Moyer, Simon Wright, Scott Mercado, Scott Moughton, Brian Tichy, Mike Ferguson

The Metal Voice Interview: Geoff Tate Would Entertain the Idea of Joining YES or GENESIS

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 27, 2016
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former Queensryche singer Geoff Tate  about his upcoming release on Sept 23 entitled Resurrection part 2 of a trilogy as well as his Trinity tour with Blaze Bayley (ex Iron Maiden) and Tim Ripper Owens (ex Judas Priest).

In regards to the musical direction off the new album Resurrection

“This album isn’t designed trying to fit into a genre. It’s an album that is telling a story and a story typically has characters and characters experience life and life is filled with experience adventure, sadness, gladness, happiness, joy, terror, fear. So the music has got to exhibit those emotions and so what may sound like a lot of  musical directions is really just music that is telling a story.”

When commenting about the song ‘Smear Campaign’ and ‘Into the Hands of the world’ off the new album

“It was a real fun track to write and record there is some insane drumming on this record, Brian Tichy performed that and he just went crazy, it’s what he does best  he is an amazing drummer. That’s a track that that goes through several movements that are quite different from each other. You have to try to bridge the movements together and that is very challenging to create these bridges so the different parts can work together. There are two tracks off the album that are realty took the longest to write to record and perfect that is one of them ‘A smear campaign’ and ‘Into the hand of the world’

When explaining the song ‘Taking on the World’ co-written by David Ellefson  featuring Blaze Bayley and Ripper Owens

“That was a track that was written and inspired by Dave Ellefson from Megadeth. He contributed a song off the first album and this song on the second album. It’s really a cool track,  it’s very heavy and driving and got a great choirs riff and very cool guitar solo.”

When explaining how the song ‘Healing my Wounds’ has that Queensryche sound

It has that sort of arpeggio guitar part that goes on and on kind of relentless and that’s kind of like the Queensyche thing to do . That is one of my favorite tracks. That was written by myself and Mark Daily who also sings lead vocal on the first verse. A cool expressive track and then Kelly Gray did an amazing guitar solo

When asked about his  experience working with Blaze Bayley and Ripper Owens

“It was really interesting I have never worked with them before or recorded their vocals before, so it was really interesting from an engineering stand point to see the difference in our voices and the sound of our voices.

We just spent three days together shooting this video for the song ‘Taking on the world’ and we had the best time, they stayed at my house, we drank a lot and told a lot of stories and laughed a lot.  I really adore both those guys, they are fantastic. Blaze and I share a passion for motorcycles. So in this video we just shot he was very excited there were a lot of motorcycles and hot rods and he got to ride a bunch of different customized motorcycles in the video.”

When asked what the Trinity Tour Set list will look like

“We are the three ex-singers from famous bands so we are going to do the music we were involved in making. I’m going to be doing Queensryche material, Blaze is going to be doing  Iron Maiden and Ripper is doing Judas Priest and then we are getting together to do some songs together “

When asked if they will add more dates to the Trinity Tour

“The biggest challenge we have of doing the tour together all three of us have very extensive tour schedules so getting us all lined up to be in the same place it’s really quite the under taking . We managed to get 10 date to start with and we are going to try and book some more in other parts of the world”

When asked if he would ever consider joining a big name band after the trilogy series is done

“I suppose so if the right situation occurred,  If the band Yes or Genesis ever asked me I’d jump at that. A band that I really like a lot,  a band that I feel that I can contribute if they wanted to make new music , I’d love that . I suppose I would entertain that idea.”

When asked if he has any contact with his former band mates in Queensryche since they parted ways

Nothing, no, not a word

Listen to the Interview Here: