Operation: Mindcrime Releases New Lyric Video

Operation: Mindcrime, which is Geoff Tate's band, just released a lyric video for their new song "Under Control." It's from the upcoming album A New Reality, which comes out next month. This isn't Queensryche, but you should still give it a chance. 

Comments

[SparkyDR99]

People are divided on Tate, but I always back him. I saw the Trinity tour last year with Ripper and Blaze and he sounded great. If you see Fake-Ryche now, they don't even play any songs off their last 2 records with the copycat singer. Just songs written by Tate and DeGarmo.

Team Tate

[Bkallday]

Not only that but their new material is ultra basic, generic, bland stuff. Def not the same band anymore. I prefer Tate's solo stuff, myself. But do wish they could link up again.

[Gary]

I lost interest in The Ryche when Chris DeGarmo lost interest in The Ryche.....

[Metalboy!]

I’m with BK ... Can they just put it all aside? Go to rationale is, “Hey, if Van Halen & Roth and Axl & Slash can get back together, why not these guys?”

Oh, to hear “Queen Of The Ryche” by the original line-up once again! That is, if Tate can sing. Last time I saw them at M3 several years ago, Tate couldn’t sing his way out of a paper bag!

[Jack T Ripper]

🤣 ❄️ 😂

[stu]

the song is meh. the video is bland. i just don’t understand the lyric video craze.
as for tate vs. rÿche - neither play much of their new material because most of the crowd just wants to hear songs from the first 5 releases.

[Him]

O:MC, Alice in Chains would like parts of several of their songs back. And they won't lend you a lyricist or a singer.

New Ryche: not very inspiring on vinyl, but good in concert.

Tate: shot when it comes to old songs, but still managing to be a captivating (within a narrow range) frontman.

The problem with waving "Team Tate" pom-poms is that you end up being a ringer for a guy who shot himself in his own money-belt. And I say that as a person who thinks that the remaining members of the original band hide behind a sanctimonious veil if they think that they weren't, at least in part, responsible for the band's slide in recent decades. Thing is, Tate provided them with a very useful cover for their own sloth.

I don't tend to believe all of anything either side says, though I will say that Ryche have been more graceful and, in the case of the new singer, more respectful overall. But what of it? They fight for a narrow ledge on which a small crumb of an existing fan base exists/subsists. They claw for a low rung in the clubs when not gaining some place on a larger stage (and on that level, the new Ryche is winning).

Phew! Ryche is again in the news. All sides win. Right?