Sign of the Times

In a career that spans nearly 25 years, Queensrÿche has released 15 albums that have sold more than 20 million units around the world. On August 28, Capitol/EMI will release Sign Of The Times: The Best Of Queensrÿche in CD, 2-CD Collectors Edition packages and digitally. The new career-spanning hits collection features 17 of Queensrÿche’s best singles and album tracks, including seven Top 10 Mainstream Rock hits, packaged in a jewelcase with a sixteen-page booklet featuring custom artwork, a discography, and track notes from the band’s singer, Geoff Tate. The Collectors Edition, presented in deluxe digipak packaging, adds a second disc of 15 rare and previously unreleased demos, outtakes, remixes, live recordings, television performance audio, recordings for soundtracks and a new, never-before-heard song making its release debut on this collection.

"In an era that valued style over substance, Queensrÿche emerged as a contrary force to the happy-go-lucky sounds of hard rock in the late ’80s and early ’90s,” explains Paul Gargano in his Sign Of The Times liner notes essay. “In hindsight, one might even go as far as to say that the band succeeded despite themselves. Whether knowingly or not, they zigged when the industry zagged, progressed while the scene regressed, and offered provocation while others opted for escapism. There’s a subtle irony, then, that their best-of collection is called Sign Of The Times."

Among Sign Of The Times: The Best Of Queensrÿche’s 17 hits and favorites are the #1 smash "Silent Lucidity," "Jet City Woman," "Eyes of a Stranger," and "Another Rainy Night (Without You)," and more than a dozen other well-known songs. The 15 tracks on the Collectors Edition’s rarities disc include three demo recordings by Myth (lead vocalist Geoff Tate’s band prior to Queensrÿche), three demo recordings from The Warning, three bonus tracks from the reissued Empire album, bonus tracks from the reissued Promised Land and Q2K albums, an intoxicating live version of "Silent Lucidity," a previously unreleased version of "Della Brown” recorded for “MTV Unplugged,” and a new track making its release debut, "Justified," recorded with original Queensrÿche guitarist Chris DeGarmo.