QUEENSRŸCHE — Rage For Order (review)

QUEENSRŸCHE — Rage For Order album cover Album · 1986 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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We are rebellion...

Genre: progressive metal

While more original and more QR than "The Warning", "Rage for Order" is a much more shaky affair, and it seems that the band are struggling to find the equilibrium between catchiness and progressiveness which is masterfully achieved on "Operation: Mindcrime" and "Empire".

It is also the one album from Queensrÿche's 80s era which interests me the least. I do think that tracks like "The Whisper", "Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)", "London" and "Walk in the Shadows" are very good tracks, but many of the remaining tracks strike me as being more filler material.

But all in all this is a good album (albeit slightly dated production-wise), and an important one in the history of the band; and there is a great live version of "The Killing Words" on the remastered edition (and a terrible version of "Gonna Get Close to you").
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