QUEENSRYCHE  Rage for Order  NEAR MINT COVER, ALBUM IS MINT NEVER PLAYED

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Rage for Order Original vinyl edition cover art Studio album by Queensrÿche Released June 27, 1986 Recorded 1985–1986 Studio M.D.H. Studios, Bellevue, Washington with Le Mobile Remote Sound Studio
Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Yamaha Studios, Glendale, California Genre

• Progressive metal
• heavy metal

Length 45:42 Label EMI America Producer Neil Kernon Queensrÿche chronology The Warning
(1984) Rage for Order
(1986) Operation: Mindcrime
(1988) Alternative cover Second edition cover art Singles from Rage for Order

1. "Gonna Get Close to You" / "Prophecy"
   Released: August 1986
2. "The Whisper" / "I Dream in Infrared"
   Released: 1986[1]
3. "Walk in the Shadows"
   Released: 1986[2]

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Rage for Order is the second studio album by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on June 27, 1986. The album was re-released on May 6, 2003 with four bonus tracks.

Contents

• 1Overview
• 2Critical reception
• 3Track listing
• 4Personnel
• 5Charts
• 6Certifications
• 7Accolades
• 8References

Overview[edit]

Rage for Order was more progressive than the band's previous releases, with a layered and complex musical structure that employs a two-guitar approach, but also brought keyboards forward in the mix.[3] Lyrically, the album explored social/personal, political and technological themes, among others highlighting the dangers of artificial intelligence and government intrusion.[3] The concept of robotics would also be emphasized through the use of staccato rhythms and vocal effects such as a reverse echo.

The band's management insisted on Queensrÿche taking an image associated more with glam rock, glam metal or gothic metal.[3][4] As a result, the promo photos and album artwork depicted the band members wearing trench coats, heavy make-up and perms.

The cover of the Dalbello song "Gonna Get Close to You" was chosen as the album's first single.

The tour supporting Rage for Order spanned approximately seven months and included being the opening act for Ratt, Bon Jovi and Ozzy Osbourne, although their music wasn't quite compatible.[3]

Some tracks recorded during the sessions for Rage for Order were not used on the album. "Prophecy" was later included on the 1989 re-issue of the Queensrÿche EP. Other songs such as "From the Darkside" and "The Dream" remained demos.[5] The band had also written "Rage for Order" as a title track. Although it was not included on the album, the main riff from this song was worked into an instrumental piece played during some shows on the tour in support of this album, and eventually morphed into the track "Anarchy-X" on the Operation: Mindcrime album, released in 1988.[5]

Rage for Order was the first album cover of Queensrÿche to prominently feature the band's Tri-Ryche logo, as nearly all later album covers would, each time with subtle changes made to the logo. Although not credited, the front cover was designed by the late English-born metal and rock journalist Garry Sharpe-Young, who later also founded MusicMight.[6] It had originally been proposed for a 12" picture disc, which never materialized, but was used by EMI-America without permission for the album cover. A few thousand initial copies bear a bluish-silver banner that was later changed to black, in order to make the artist and title easier to read. The original cassette edition also had all the gold accents on the cover changed to white.[5] CDs bearing the blue ring cover are even more rare. Only a few hundred copies were printed before the ring was switched to black.

Despite the bands emphasis on keyboards and digital technology tricks such as the "reverse echo" this album was recorded and mixed in analog. On a short television documentary which aired in 1986, Scott Rockenfield stated that the drums were recorded in a stone warehouse using Le Mobile recording studios. Michael Wilton said that to get a guitar sound that they were happy with they "used two old Marshall's that were on the verge of exploding" by using a Variac causing the transformers to work harder.[4]

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [7] Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10[8] Kerrang! [9] Rock Hard (GER) 9.5/10[10] The Rolling Stone Album Guide [11]

In 2005, Rage for Order was ranked number 343 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.[12]

Track listing[edit]

Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Walk in the Shadows" Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton 3:32 2. "I Dream in Infrared" Tate, Wilton 4:19 3. "The Whisper" DeGarmo 3:35 4. "Gonna Get Close to You" Lisa Dalbello 4:37 5. "The Killing Words" DeGarmo, Tate 3:56 6. "Surgical Strike" DeGarmo, Wilton 3:20 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 7. "Neue Regel" DeGarmo, Tate 4:58 8. "Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)" Tate, Wilton 4:15 9. "London" DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton 5:04 10. "Screaming in Digital" DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton 3:39 11. "I Will Remember" DeGarmo 4:24 show2003 CD reissue bonus tracks

Personnel[edit]

Queensrÿche

• Geoff Tate – lead vocals, keyboards
• Chris DeGarmo – guitars (lead guitar on tracks 4, 5, and 8), twelve-string guitar on “I Will Remember”, backing vocals
• Michael Wilton – guitars (lead guitar on tracks 2 and 6), backing vocals
• Eddie Jackson – bass, backing vocals
• Scott Rockenfield – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Neil Kernon – keyboards
• Bradley Doyle - emulator programming

Production

• Neil Kernon - production, engineering, mixing
• Dave Ogilvie - engineering
• Rob Porter - engineering
• Keith Cohen - engineering
• Howie Weinberg - mastering
• Queensrÿche – album concept
• Moshe Brakha – album photography
• Henry Marquez – art direction
• Glenn Parsons – design