‘A New Reality’ to be the last album from Geoff Tate led Operation: Mindcrime
‘A New Reality’ to be the last album from Geoff Tate led Operation: Mindcrime
Operation: Mindcrime led by former Queensrÿche lead vocalist Geoff Tate are poised to release their third album A New Reality via Frontiers Music Srl on December 1, 2017. A New Reality completes a trilogy of albums after The Key (2015) and Resurrection (2016) that was planned by Tate after his departure from Queensrÿche.
Tate was recently interviewed by JZ from “The Dark” on Minnesota radio station FM94 and the following are excerpts from the interview transcribed by Blabbermouth.
With respect to making Operation: Mindcrime a reality, Tate advised (as transcribed by Blabbermouth with slight edits): “First off, it’s not an actual band. Operation: Mindcrime is a group of different musicians all getting together to contribute to these three albums that I put together. I believe, I can’t remember exactly how many people played on the albums, but I believe it’s something like sixteen to eighteen different musicians on these records. There’s three records: ‘The Key‘, ‘Resurrection‘ and the new album is called ‘A New Reality‘. It’s a trilogy of albums that tell one story. It’s like telling a story in three acts and each act is an album. This group of musicians was put together specifically for this project. It was great working with everybody. I worked with several different writers contributing to the music and lots of different musicians, guitar players, bass players, drummers, keyboard players, everybody that contributed did fantastic work. We recorded all the basic tracks for all three albums at the same time a couple of years ago and then, as I finished the records, the record company put them out once a year. And this is the last album of the trilogy and the last album for Operation: Mindcrime and it’s coming out in December.”
You can read the rest of the transcribed interview at Blabbermouth and listen to the entire interview by JZ from “The Dark” on Minnesota radio station FM94 below:
GEOFF TATE INTERVIEW
JZ talks with Geoff Tate on the Wednesday, November 15th 2017 broadcast of The Dark on FM94.