History Music / Queensryche

* Michael Wilton - lead guitar (1982-present)

* Mike Stone - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2002–2009, 2018, 2021-present)

* Chris [=DeGarmo=] - rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (1982–1997, 2003)
* Kelly Gray - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1997–2002)

* Parker Lundgren - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2009-present)

* Mike Stone - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2002–2009, 2018)

* Casey Grillo'' - drums (2017-present)

* Casey Grillo'' - drums (touring member 2017-present)

* Scott Rockenfield - drums, keyboards (1982-2017, on hiatus)

!!Current Line-Up (Founding members in '''bold''', current members in ''italics''):
* '''''Michael Wilton''''' - lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals (1982-present)
* '''''Eddie Jackson''''' - bass, backing vocals (1982-present)
* ''Parker Lundgren'' - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2009-present)
* ''Todd La Torre'' - lead vocals (2012-present); drums (2018)
* ''Casey Grillo'' - drums (touring member 2017-present)

* '''Geoff Tate''' - lead vocals, keyboards, saxophone (1982–2012)
* '''Chris [=DeGarmo=]''' - lead and rhythm guitars, keyboards, backing and lead vocals (1982–1997, 2003)
* Kelly Gray - lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals (1997–2002)
* Mike Stone - rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals (2002–2009)
* '''Scott Rockenfield''' - drums, keyboards (1982-2017, on hiatus)

!!Current Line-Up:
* Michael Wilton - lead guitar (1982-present)
* Eddie Jackson - bass, backing vocals (1982-present)
* Parker Lundgren - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2009-present)
* Todd La Torre: lead vocals (2012-present)
* Casey Grillo - drums (2017-present)

* Geoff Tate: lead vocals, keyboards, saxophone (1982–2012)
* Chris [=DeGarmo=]: rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1982–1997)
* Kelly Gray: rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1997–2002)
* Mike Stone: rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2002–2009)
* Scott Rockenfield - drums, keyboards (1982-2017, on hiatus)

* Casey Grillo - Drums (2017-present, technically only a touring member taking Rockenfield's place while he's on hiatus)

* Scott Rockenfield - Drums, keyboards (1982-2017, technically still in the band, went on hiatus in 2017)

** TheBigGuy: Scott
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Todd

* Scott Rockenfield - drums, keyboards (1982-present)

** The sudden door slam at the end of "Anybody Listening?". To put it in context, the song itself fades gently into the soft sounds of waves washing on shore, which plays for about 30 or 40 seconds and then SLAM!

* Michael Wilton - guitars (1982-present)
* Scott Rockenfield - drums, keyboards, orchestration (1982-present)

* Parker Lundgren - guitars, backing vocals (2009-present)

* Chris [=DeGarmo=]: guitars, backing vocals (1982–1997)
* Kelly Gray: guitars, backing vocals (1997–2002)
* Mike Stone: guitars, backing vocals (2002–2009)
* In addition, the late Music/MichaelKamen provided orchestral arrangements for many of their songs.

* GriefSong: "I Don't Believe in Love" from the original ''Mindcrime'' is about the protagonist, Nikki, mourning the death of his lover Mary. "If I Were King", from ''American Soldier'', is about a Marine who can't get over the death of his friend in battle. "A World Without", from the 2013 ''Queensrÿche'', is about a man whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving him alone with their newborn baby.

* AuthorTract: Some segments of both ''Mindcrime'' albums can get this way. Of course, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

** CoverAlbum: ''Take Cover''.

-->'''Daughter:''' [[TearJerker And I'll be there to shine a light, so you can find your way to me...]]

-->'''Daughter:''' [[YMMV/TearJerker And I'll be there to shine a light, so you can find your way to me...]]

** The sudden door slam at the end of "Anybody Listening?".

* MyspeldRokband: In addition to the HeavyMetalUmlaut, the band is named for one of its earliest songs, "Queen of the Reich".

* Michael Wilton: guitar, backing vocals (1982-present)
* Scott Rockenfield: drums, keyboard, orchestration (1982-present)
* Eddie Jackson: bass, backing vocals (1982-present)
* Parker Lundgren: guitar, backing vocals (2009-present)

* Geoff Tate: lead vocals, keyboard, saxophone (1982–2012)
* Chris [=DeGarmo=]: guitar, backing vocals (1982–1997)
* Kelly Gray: guitar, backing vocals (1997–2002)
* Mike Stone: guitar, backing vocals (2002–2009)

* TakeThat: The lyrics to "Where Dreams Go to Die" and "Vindication" on their 2013 self-titled album could be considered a ''very'' thinly veiled screw-you to Geoff Tate.

** ''Operation: Mindcrime'' has a much poppier sound than the previous three, (Especially "Revolution Calling" and the title track) but lyrically, it's much darker, dealing with a recovering junkie who is brainwashed into an assassin, and deals with prostitution, suicide, and insanity.

** ''Operation: Mindcrime II'' returns to the Mindcrime story, and ends with [[spoiler: the protagonist committing suicide]]

** Their Self-titled 2013 album, actively promoted as being their heaviest album in years, continuing with ''Condition Hüman''.

** ''Operation: Mindcrime'' has a much poppier sound than the previous three, (Especially "Revolution Calling" and the title track) but lyrically, it's much darker, dealing with a recovering junkie who is brainwashed into an assasin, and deals with prostitution, suicide, and insanity.

** Their Self-titled 2013 album, actively promoted as being their heaviest album in years, continuing with ''Condition Human''.

A ProgressiveMetal band from Seattle, Washington, best remembered for their epic RockOpera ''Music/OperationMindcrime'' and its follow up, ''Empire'', which contained the Top 10 hit "Silent Lucidity". The band's lineup for the majority of its career was:

They also frequently worked with the late Music/MichaelKamen.

* Geoff Tate – lead vocals, keyboard, saxophone (1982–2012)
* Chris DeGarmo – guitar, backing vocals (1982–1997)
* Kelly Gray – guitar, backing vocals (1997–2002)
* Mike Stone – guitar, backing vocals (2002–2009)

Starting out as something of an Music/IronMaiden-esque Euro-metal band, Queensrÿche has experimented with many different sounds and styles over the course of their career. For example, for their second album ''Rage For Order'' they utilized highly industrialized orchestrations, various production trickery and ominous synthesizers (dubbed "techno-metal"); and ''Hear In The Now Frontier'' featured a raw, stripped-back sound with little to no audio effects other than natural overdrive for the guitars. Albums such as ''The Warning'', ''Mindcrime'', ''Empire'' and ''Promised Land'', meanwhile, featured comparatively straightforward ProgressiveMetal with multiple time signatures, complicated structures, twin guitar solos by Wilton and [=DeGarmo=], plus the aforementioned experimentation with synthesizers and sound effects.

Like most hard rock bands from TheEighties, Queensrÿche's popularity waned in TheNineties with the rise of grunge (which, ironically, has its roots in Queensrÿche's hometown of Seattle). Nonetheless, Queensrÿche continues to record and tour, although founding member Chris [=DeGarmo=] left the band in 1998 to pursue personal interests. His place was filled by Kelly Gray on ''[=Q2K=]'', Mike Stone on ''Tribe'', ''Operation: Mindcrime II'' and ''Take Cover'', and finally Parker Lundgren on ''Dedicated To Chaos''.

* DressRehearsalVideo: "Nightrider" and "Breaking The Silence".
* EpicRocking: "The Lady Wore Black", "No Sanctuary", "Roads To Madness", "Suite Sister Mary", "Eyes of a Stranger", "Della Brown", "One and Only", "Anybody Listening?", "Promised Land", "The Right Side Of My Mind", "A Dead Man's Words", "At The Edge", "Big Noize", "Just Us", "Condition Human".

* GriefSong: "I Don't Believe In Love" from the original ''Mindcrime'' is about the protagonist, Nikki, mourning the death of his lover Mary. "If I Were King", from ''American Soldier'', is about a Marine who can't get over the death of his friend in battle. "A World Without", from the 2013 ''Queensrÿche'', is about a man whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving him alone with their newborn baby.

** [[Music/OperationMindcrime REVOLUTION!!!!]] ("Eyes Of A Stranger"--much of ''Mindcrime'' has this)

** ''Empire'', a mainstream pop-rock album, with the darker lyrics of Mindcrime giving way to straightforward songs about romance and other lighter themes, though dark songs still appear, like the TitleTrack.
** The trilogy of ''Hear In The Now Frontier'', ''Q2K'' and ''Tribe'', which go for an alt-rock sound

* MyspeldRokband: In addition to the HeavyMetalUmlaut, the band is named for one of its earliest songs, "Queen Of The Reich".
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Rage for Order'' perhaps most obviously, ''Hear In The Now Frontier'' as a shift to a more "alternative" sound, and ''Dedicated To Chaos'', later, but not in a good way. Frankly, it could be argued that they pulled this every few albums or so: power metal (EP, "The Warning") to progressive (''Rage For Order'' and ''Mindcrime I'') to mainstream pop-metal (''Empire'') to conceptual hard rock (''Promised Land'') to an alternative rock sound (''Hear'', ''[=Q2K=]'', ''Tribe'') and finally back to progressive sounds (''Mindcrime II'' and ''American Soldier'') whatever '''Dedicated to Chaos'' is supposed to be, and a return to their '80s sound (''Queensryche'', ''Condition Human'')

** Take! Hold! ("Take Hold Of The Flame" from ''The Warning'')
** I! Can! Hear! The! Chimes!/ I! Can! See! Your! Eyes!/I! Can! Feel! It's! Time! ("Neue Regel" from ''Rage For Order'')
** We! Are! Rebellion! ("Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)" from ''Rage For Order'')

* StalkerWithACrush: "Gonna Get Close To You" and "Walk in the Shadows".
* TakeThat: The lyrics to "Where Dreams Go To Die" and "Vindication" on their 2013 self-titled album could be considered a ''very'' thinly veiled screw-you to Geoff Tate.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: "Screaming In Digital".

* TakeThat: The lyrics to "Where Dreams Go To Die" on their 2013 self-titled album could be considered a ''very'' thinly veiled screw-you to Geoff Tate.

** ''Operation: Mindcrime II'' returns to the Mindcrime story, and ends with [[spoiler]] the protagonist committing suicide [[/spoiler]]

** ''American Soldier'' is a very [[TearJerker sad, depressing]] album about war and experiences of it.

* EpicRocking: "The Lady Wore Black", "Roads To Madness", "Suite Sister Mary", "Della Brown", "Anybody Listening?", "Promised Land", "The Right Side Of My Mind", "A Dead Man's Words".

* EpicRocking: "Roads To Madness", "Suite Sister Mary", "Della Brown", "Anybody Listening?", "Promised Land", "The Right Side Of My Mind", "A Dead Man's Words".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Depends on the album. The EP is mostly a 7, with "Nightrider" and "Blinded" in particular close to an 8. ''Warning'' and ''Rage for Order'' are around a 5-6, ''Operation: Mindcrime'' is usually a 5-6, but with a few 7s ("Spreading the Disease", "Speak") ''Empire'' and ''Promised Land'' are 4-5, and the rest of their albums vary between levels 5 and 7.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Rage for Order'' perhaps most obviously, ''Hear In The Now Frontier'' as a shift to a more "alternative" sound, and ''Dedicated To Chaos'', later, but not in a good way. Frankly, it could be argued that they pulled this every few albums or so: power metal (EP, "The Warning") to progressive (''Rage For Order'' and ''Mindcrime I'') to mainstream pop-metal (''Empire'') to conceptual hard rock (''Promised Land'') to an alternative rock sound (''Hear'', ''[=Q2K=]'', ''Tribe'') and finally back to progressive sounds (''Mindcrime II'' and ''American Soldier'') and...well, whatever '''Dedicated to Chaos'' is supposed to be.