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Queensrÿche

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Grunge Rock
Heavy Metal
Progressive Metal

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23 авг 2025 :	QUEENSRŸCHE Has 'A Pile Of Songs' To Sort Through For Next Studio Album: 'It Sounds Killer', Says TODD LA TORRE
21 июл 2025 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Performs Early Classics In El Cajon, California
9 июн 2025 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Performs Early Classics In Albany
21 апр 2025 :	QUEENSRŸCHE's MICHAEL WILTON: TODD LA TORRE 'Has Helped Keep Us Relevant'
19 апр 2025 :	TODD LA TORRE Says He Has Helped Bring QUEENSRŸCHE's Sound Back: 'The Band Is In A Very Healthy State'
13 апр 2025 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Performs At ROCK 'N' ROLL FANTASY CAMP's 'Whole Lotta Rock Camp Volume II'
27 мар 2025 :	TODD LA TORRE: 'I've Brought Back A Lot Of The Vocal Acrobatics That Were Missing' In QUEENSRŸCHE 'For A Long Time'
19 мар 2025 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Performs Early Classics On This Year's 'Monsters Of Rock' Cruise
3 мар 2025 :	QUEENSRŸCHE's MICHAEL WILTON Says Touring With JUDAS PRIEST Was A 'Mind-Blowing' Experience
17 фев 2025 :	MICHAEL WILTON Doesn't Know When The Next QUEENSRŸCHE Album Will Be Released: 'We're Always Touring'
2 фев 2025 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Kicks Off European Leg Of 'The Origins Tour' In Helsinki
6 ноя 2024 :	QUEENSRŸCHE Is Hoping To Enter Studio In 2025 To Record Next Album
16 май 2024 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Performs Entire Debut EP And 'The Warning' Album In Albany
12 май 2024 :	MICHAEL WILTON On Success Of QUEENSRŸCHE's 'Empire': 'We Collided With Public Taste, The Average Person'
7 май 2024 :	QUEENSRŸCHE - Official Videos For "I Don't Believe In Love" and "Empire" Superscaled To 4K Streaming
30 апр 2024 :	QUEENSRŸCHE's MICHAEL WILTON: 'At Our Age Now, We're Still Crushing It'
26 апр 2024 :	QUEENSRŸCHE - Official Videos For "Eyes Of A Stranger" And "Jet City Woman" Superscaled To 4K Streaming
29 мар 2024 :	Watch: QUEENSRŸCHE Performs Entire Debut EP And 'The Warning' Album In El Cajon, California
18 мар 2024 :	Watch QUEENSRŸCHE Perform On Pool Stage Aboard 2024 'Monsters Of Rock' Cruise
5 мар 2024 :	Watch QUEENSRŸCHE Perform On 2024 'Monsters Of Rock' Cruise
27 дек 2023 :	New QUEENSRŸCHE Book 'Roads To Madness: The Touring History Of Queensrÿche (1981-1997)' Due In March
7 дек 2023 :
9 ноя 2023 :	QUEENSRŸCHE's MICHAEL WILTON Says His Solo Album Is 'About Halfway Done'
8 ноя 2023 :	QUEENSRŸCHE To Perform Entire Debut EP And 'The Warning' Album On 2024's 'The Origins Tour'
21 сен 2023 :	QUEENSRŸCHE Releases Music Video For Cover Of BILLY IDOL's 'Rebel Yell'
18 июл 2023 :	French Prog Metal Band ANTIPOD Signs With Wormholedeath; Eveil Album Expected In September

23 авг 2025

QUEENSRŸCHE Has 'A Pile Of Songs' To Sort Through For Next Studio Album: 'It Sounds Killer', Says TODD LA TORRE

In a new interview with Paul Salfen of AMFM Magazine, QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Todd La Torre spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's follow-up to 2022's "Digital Noise Alliance" album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We're writing the next album now. And so we've got a pile of songs and ideas that we're sorting through to see what's what. I have a ton of lyrics to write and vocals to do. And it's really hard to find the time because we're gone so much. And it's hard to force that creativity sometimes. But the stuff that [the other guys in the band are] showing me, it's classic QUEENSRŸCHE, man. It sounds killer. And this will be my fifth album with the band.

"So, yeah, we still make new music, and I think that's what any artist does, or anybody really that enjoys doing what they do," Todd continued. "Maybe you play tennis, but you're not a pro tennis player or you don't play in tournaments anymore, but you still go out and hit some balls with your friends. And we still like to create. Some older bands, they don't even bother putting out new records. 'Oh, why? Everybody wants to hear the old stuff.' Yeah, but there are people that really enjoy the new stuff too. Like I say, the bulk of of what we do is gonna be the classics, but I love the new stuff that we do. It just shows that we're still passionate about making new music. I don't wanna just completely stop and just play the hits. You've gotta write new stuff."

After Salfen noted that QUEENSRŸCHE has already released so much great new material during La Torre's era with the band that it's hard for the group to choose which tracks to perform live, Todd said: "It's funny because some people will say, 'Oh, I wish they played way more' of my era with the band. And it's interesting, because we'll throw some new stuff in. And if you have the casual fan that just knows 'Jet City Woman' and 'Empire' and 'I Don't Believe In Love', you play even 'Walk In The Shadows' and they don't know it, or 'Queen Of The Reich' and they don't know it. And then you have the hardcore fans that we'll play a new one and they follow what we do and they sing all the words and they know it, but the vibe of the room changes. It's not that they don't like it, but they're not reactionary in the same way. And as soon as we finish a new song and we play another classic, the room erupts. And sometimes you wonder, like, 'How much new stuff can we really play?' Because it kind of depends on — you're polling the audience or this geographic location or the demographic. Is this a metal festival? Is this a casino with more of a radio-friendly kind of commercial fanbase of the band? I don't know. It's hard to say."

Todd added: "I wish we could play a lot more of it. And we did — we did one tour where I think probably 40% was all of my era with the band. So it isn't like we haven't tried it or done it, but if you have to pick a new song that most people don't know, or you have to play a song that everybody knows, a lot of times you'll go for the song that everybody knows."

As previously reported, QUEENSRŸCHE will hit the road this fall on the "Volume And Vengeance Tour" alongside special guests ACCEPT. The trek will kick off on November 7 in Denver, Colorado at Summit and will conclude on December 20 in Temecula, California at Pechanga Theater Casino.

In a recent interview with Sonoridades Inc., QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton spoke about La Torre, who joined the group in 2012 as the replacement for QUEENSRŸCHE's original vocalist Geoff Tate. Michael said: "[Todd has] helped keep us relevant. He's a great songwriter, but he's not just a vocalist and a lyric writer. He's a drummer. He can play guitar. He can speak to you and communicate to you as a musician, not just a singer. I mean, he grew up in Florida in the metal era, and he's got a lot of that influence, but he's very melodic as well. And he's got a killer voice. So I think it's just something that in the evolution of post-QUEENSRŸCHE, it's, like, we are still doing it and kicking ass. And hopefully we'll have something new out in the future."

Regarding the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for the follow-up to 2022's "Digital Noise Alliance", Michael said: "Right now we're writing. We're doing so much touring right now, it's hard to figure out where we will have a block of time to make an album. But before we went to Europe, we brought Zeuss [Chris Harris], our producer, down to Florida, and we worked on some ideas. We just started writing. And that's where we're at right now."

Wilton also talked about QUEENSRŸCHE drummer Casey Grillo, who joined the band in 2017 as the replacement for the original QUEENSRŸCHE drummer Scott Rockenfield. He said: "[Casey is] an amazing player and he brings so much to QUEENSRŸCHE. He respects the songs, but he's such a dynamic player. He's very talented, and he helps in the writing process as well. So, yeah, he's been in the band over five years, six years, or whatever it is, seven, and, yeah, he's great."

In October 2021, Rockenfield filed a lawsuit against Wilton and bassist Eddie Jackson, alleging, among other things, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and wrongful discharge. A few months later, Wilton and Jackson filed a countersuit against Rockenfield, accusing him of abandoning his position as a member of the band and misappropriating the group's assets to his own personal benefit. That dispute has since been settled out of court.

This past April, La Torre was asked by Chile's iRock.cl how QUEENSRYCHE's sound has changed since he joined the group 13 years ago as the replacement for Tate. He responded: "I think that the band kind of got its sound back, more of the roots, the heavier kind of sound that QUEENSRYCHE was known for early on. There was a long period of time where the music got more adult contemporary and less hard rock and heavy metal and progressive and all of the different elements that QUEENSRŸCHE was kind of known for. So I think me being in the band — I mean, it could have been any other singer — has allowed these guys to completely write whatever they wanna write without it being turned down as being too heavy, for example, 'cause that had happened."

He continued: "I love the old classic stuff. We perform all the songs in the standard tunings like they were recorded, so there's nothing downtuned that changes the way they sound. I think that's helped contribute to kind of the resurgence of the band. But we just write songs, and sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wanna write a masterpiece of a song like 'Roads To Madness'' or a great song like 'Take Hold Of The Flame' or — I don't know — songs off of '[Operation:] Mindcrime', for example. But we all have a great time and the chemistry in the band is perfect. We all are super, super close. We all get along off the stage so well that it really kind of… I think that the contribution that I bring in is the jokes, the laughter, the creativity with music and art idea, artistic ideas with album covers and video concepts and that kind of thing. I don't know. That's the best way I could answer it, is I'm just one fifth of QUEENSRŸCHE. But the band is in a very healthy state."

Regarding how he sees the future of QUEENSRŸCHE, Todd said: "Oh, man. I kind of see the future as kind of what we're doing still. A lot of bands have retired, and we're still out there. There's nothing in the future that I see of the band retiring. I mean, we play about a hundred shows a year. So probably more of the same — just performing live shows, writing new songs and making new records and promoting our art that way. But, I mean, really it boils down to the live concert. That's really what we are now."

In a separate interview with Brazil's Monsters Of Rock, Todd was asked which "unexplored musical directions" he would like to see QUEENSRŸCHE go in on the band's upcoming follow-up to "Digital Noise Alliance". He said: "[We're] kind of [doing] the same thing as what we've been doing. I mean, we don't go in writing a record with a preconceived idea. We just get in a room and [go], 'Hey, show me your guitar parts. What do you have in your mind?' And we kind of all get together in a room and just see what happens in real time. So as far as unexplored musical directions… Personally, I'd love to hear more clean guitar on the next record, maybe some more spacious stuff, some more clean guitar. Orchestration is always fun to work with. It's very huge and cinematic sounding. So those are fun things to play with. Maybe some different percussion things would be interesting to play around with again.

"But, gosh, after 40-plus years, I think without completely changing the band, the band's style of music, I don't know that there's really any too much unexplored musical directions," he continued. "I mean, QUEENSRŸCHE's kind of done a lot within the large space that QUEENSRŸCHE has to run around in. I mean, if we were to do something — we wouldn't write a hip-hop song, we wouldn't write a death metal song. So within the confines of what QUEENSRŸCHE kind of is, as diverse as it as it is, I don't know what kind of unexplored musical directions there would be. On the next one, I mean, I would love to, like I say, play around with some other clean guitar sounds, maybe some more interesting percussion things — like the song 'I Am I' had some really neat percussion things going on."

Guitarist Mike Stone, who rejoined QUEENSRŸCHE in 2021, contributed guitar solos to the band's latest studio album.

Since late May 2021, Stone has been handling second-guitar duties in QUEENSRŸCHE, which announced in July 2021 that longtime guitarist Parker Lundgren was exiting the group to focus on "other business ventures."

Stone originally joined QUEENSRŸCHE for the 2003 album "Tribe" and stayed with the band for six years before leaving the group.

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