Artist: OPERATION: MINDCRIME [GEOFF TATE ex-QUEENSRYCHE]
Album: THE KEY (CD)

Release date: 2015
Media type: CD

The Key is part one of an epic musical trilogy from iconic metal vocalist Geoff Tate, and it initiates that very question within a web of international politics, the world economy and social ethos. It is the debut album under Tate's new Operation: Mindcrime banner, a creative platform that continues in the spirit of the historic album of the same name, spawning concepts as grand as the music, and intertwining the intensity of the former Queensryche vocalist's iconic past with the provocative, progressive mindset that has made him one of music's most resolute forces and frontmen.

Joining Tate on The Key are a hard-hitting cast of familiar faces and new collaborators: bass players Dave Ellefson [Megadeth, Metal Allegiance] and John Moyer [Disturbed, Adrenaline Mob], drummers Simon Wright [AC/DC], Scott Mercado [Candlebox] and Brian Tichy [Billy Idol, Ozzy Osbourne], guitarists Kelly Gray [Queensryche] and Scott Moughton [Geoff Tate], keyboardist Randy Gane [Myth] and vocalist Mark Daly [The Voodoos]. Tate makes one point exceptionally clear - Operation: Mindcrime isn't a band, it is a musical project of like-minded people uniting to achieve a common goal. While the songwriting rests predominantly on the shoulders of Tate, Gray and Gane, it's up to every contributor to add their influence and help color the landscape.

Recorded by Kelly Gray .

TRACKLIST:

01 Choices
02 Burn
03 Re-Inventing The Future
04 Ready To Fly
05 Discussions In A Smoke Filled Room
06 Life Or Death?
07 The Stranger
08 Hearing Voice
09 On Queue
10 An Ambush Of Sadness
11 Kicking In The Door
12 The Fall

LINE-UP:

GEOFF TATE • Vocals, Keyboards, Saxophone
KELLY GRAY • Guitars, Vocals
SCOTT MOUGHTON • Guitars, Vocals
DAVE ELLEFSON • Bass
JOHN MOYER • Bass
MARK DAILY • Vocals
RANDY GANE • Keyboards
SIMON WRIGHT • Drums
SCOTT MERCADO • Drums, Dulcimer
BRIAN TICHY • Drums