Album · 1988
Operation: Mindcrime
by Queensrÿche
Operation: Mindcrime is an album by Queensrÿche, released in 1988 on Century Media, with 17 tracks.
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- 68 min
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Album · 1988
by Queensrÿche
Operation: Mindcrime is an album by Queensrÿche, released in 1988 on Century Media, with 17 tracks.
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17 tracks · 68 min
Operation: Mindcrime is a concept album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Released on May 3, 1988 on the EMI Manhattan label, it is the band's third full-length album. A rock opera, its story follows a man who becomes disillusioned with the society of the time and reluctantly becomes involved with a revolutionary group as an assassin of political leaders. In January 1989, it ranked #34 on Kerrang! magazine's "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time". During the tour promoting the 1990 album Empire, Operation: Mindcrime was performed in its entirety. The stage show featured video, animation and guest singer Pamela Moore as Sister Mary. This live show was successful enough that the band released it as a box set called Operation: LIVEcrime. The story was initially explored in a series of video clips for MTV in the 1989 VHS video, Video: Mindcrime. Before filming Video: Mindcrime, the band shot a one-off promotional video in 1988 for the song "Speak" which only consisted of performance footage and did not include any of the story concepts that dominated the album. In the United States, the album was certified gold a year after its release and was certified platinum…