Condition Hüman
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| Studio album by Queensrÿche | ||||
| Released | October 2, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | Late February–March & May 2015 Uberbeatz Studios (Lynnwood, WA) |
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| Genre | Heavy metal, progressive metal | |||
| Length | 53:15 | |||
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Century Media Pledge drive |
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| Producer | Chris "Zeuss" Harris | |||
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| About.com |   |
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| Loudwire | favorable |
| Music Enthusiast Magazine | favorable |
| The Prog Report | favorable |
Condition Hüman is the fifteenth studio album by American progressive heavy metal band Queensrÿche. It was released on October 2, 2015 through Century Media. It is the second studio album recorded with vocalist Todd La Torre, after Geoff Tate was fired from the band and gave up the rights to the name after a two-year lawsuit regarding the rights to the Queensrÿche brand was amicably settled.
The album's first single, "Arrow of Time," became available for streaming on July 20, 2015, the day the album's title and release date were announced. It was recorded in early 2015 at Uberbeatz Studios in Washington and produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris.
Queensrÿche released their eponymous album Queensrÿche on June 26, 2013, to positive and raving reviews, garnering praise for returning to Queensrÿche's signature sound, La Torre's vocal abilities, and the fact that the album could stand proud among the band's classics from the 80s and early 90s. The main point of criticism was the short length of 35 minutes.
Even before Condition Hüman's self-titled predecessor Queensrÿche was released, La Torre revealed in March 2013 that since the band is constantly writing, they are already starting to accumulate material for a followup album. The band had a mindset of: "Let’s just put out these songs, keep working and put out more material." guitarist Michael Wilton explained the vision for taking ample time to craft at the songs by saying: "We don’t want to have an album with filler songs. We want every song to be quality. I’d rather have a 35 minute badass album, than a 50 minute long with a bunch of epic songs that really shouldn’t have been on the CD."
Wilton and drummer Scott Rockenfield had written songs for albums such as American Soldier and Dedicated to Chaos that the band's former lead singer Geoff Tate discarded in favor of songs he wrote with outside writers such as Jason Slater. These backlog demos were not used on Queensrÿche, because of the band's renewed inspiration and a desire to start off fresh. Furthermore, the writing sessions for Queensrÿche had resulted in at least 17 potential demos. Several of these songs didn't make it onto the record, as they weren't quite finished, and time constraints prevented them from maturing in time, but they would be featured on the follow-up album. In addition to the existing demos, the band also wrote new songs for the album, which they announced in many interviews from very early on.
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