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Empire (Queensrÿche album)

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Released
  
August 20, 1990

Empire (1990)
  
Promised Land (1994)

Release date
  
20 August 1990

Label
  
EMI Records USA

Length
  
63:23

Artist
  
Queensrÿche

Producer
  
Peter Collins

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Recorded
  
Vancouver Studios, Vancouver, Canada, Spring 1990 Triad Studios, Redmond, Washington (tracks 6, 12-14)

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Progressive metal

Similar
  
Queensrÿche albums, Progressive metal albums

Queensr che empire full album


Empire is the fourth full-length album by the American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released on August 20, 1990. The album stands as Queensrÿche's most commercially successful release, reaching triple-platinum status and the primary single, the power ballad "Silent Lucidity", reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Silent Lucidity" was also nominated for the Grammy Awards of 1992 in the categories Best Rock Song and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

Contents

Personnel

Queensrÿche
  • Geoff Tate – vocals, keyboards
  • Chris DeGarmo – 6 and 12 strings electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards on "Best I Can" and backing vocals, lead guitar on "Best I Can", "Jet City Woman", "Silent Lucidity", and "Anybody Listening"
  • Michael Wilton – 6 and 12 strings electric and acoustic guitars, lead guitar on "Empire", "Resistance", and "Another Rainy Night"
  • Eddie Jackson – bass guitars, backing vocals
  • Scott Rockenfield – drums, percussion
    • Additional musicians
  • Michael Kamen – orchestral arrangements on "Silent Lucidity", conductor
  • Randy Gane – message left on answering machine on "Empire"
  • Robert Bailey – keyboards, programming
    • Production
  • Peter Collins – producer
  • James Barton — engineer, mixing at Royal Recorders Studios, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
  • Marcus Ramaer - assistant engineer
  • Dan Harjung - mixing assistant
  • Paul Northfield — engineer on tracks 6, 12, 14
  • Neil Kernon — producer and engineer on track 13
  • Tom Hall — engineer on track 13, assistant engineer on tracks 6, 12, 14
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk, New York

    • Songs

    1Best I Can5:34
    2Thin Line5:43
    3Jet City Woman5:22

    References

    Empire (Queensrÿche album) Wikipedia
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