Dedicated to Chaos
| Dedicated to Chaos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Studio album by Queensrÿche | ||||
| Released | June 28, 2011 | |||
| Recorded |
El Dorado Studios, Burbank, California, London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington |
|||
| Genre | Alternative metal | |||
| Length | 53:55 | |||
| Label | Loud & Proud/Roadrunner | |||
| Producer | Kelly Gray, Jason Slater | |||
| Queensrÿche chronology | ||||
|
||||
| Singles from Dedicated to Chaos | ||||
|
||||
| Music sample | ||||
|
|
||||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| About.com |   |
| Allmusic |  |
| Melodic.net | |
| Metalholic | (8.2/10) |
| Record Collector | |
| Sea of Tranquility | |
| Sputnikmusic | |
Dedicated to Chaos is the twelfth studio album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche. The album was released first in Japan on June 21, 2011, and a week later in the United States on June 28, 2011, and is the band's first album for Roadrunner Records' Loud & Proud label.
Like the 2009 release American Soldier, Dedicated to Chaos was recorded by Queensrÿche as a quartet; Parker Lundgren, who was a guest guitarist in this album, subsequently became a permanent member of the band.
The album was first announced in late August 2010, following Queensrÿche's signing with the Loud & Proud label of Roadrunner Records. Drummer Scott Rockenfield commented on the album, saying "It's huge rock but with a great dance vibe to it, real modern dance. It’s kind of like Rage through a time tunnel, bringing it into the now. There are a lot of electronic elements to it. It’s a big rock thing that is going to have a lot of color to it — it’s good and really intense”. In an October 2010 interview with Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, vocalist Geoff Tate revealed some information about the upcoming album:
We are planning on a spring release. It will be a very strong collection of songs. The topic of the album is all over the place. There's a lot of different subjects we tackle. The sound and the writing direction is probably more focused on rhythm than any of our records have been. Scott and Eddie are contributing a lot to the composition of this record, so there's a lot of focus on rhythm structure and keeping things very rhythmatic and moving. It's got a lot of very intricate bass/drum work on it that perhaps hasn't been featured on earlier albums. Therefore it's going to have a very modern sound to it. Music these days, outside of hard rock and metal, is really rhythm-oriented. There's a lot of movement to it. So we're kind of going with that as a feature on this record. Still, there's a lot of interesting guitar work as we try to push the guitar into different areas as well, while trying to stay away from the bone-head stuff like the chunk-chunk-chunk kind of thing. We're using the guitars in a more melodic sense. The band is producing it with Kelly Gray, our longtime friend and engineer. We've got about three-quarters written and recorded.
...
Wikipedia