The Warning Vinyl
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The Warning is where Queensrÿche first stretched out to full-album length, and their 1984 debut still crackles with the ambition that would soon make them progressive metal pioneers.
The Bellevue, Washington band had already turned heads with a self-released EP, catching a major-label deal on the strength of Geoff Tate's operatic vocals and the twin-guitar firepower of Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton. For their first full-length they travelled to London to work with producer James Guthrie, and the result pushed well past the leather-and-studs metal of the day. Dystopian themes, intricate arrangements and a cinematic sense of drama all pointed toward the concept-album heights of Operation: Mindcrime a few years later.
The title track opens with a sense of creeping paranoia before the riffs come crashing in. "Take Hold of the Flame" is the fan favourite, a galloping anthem with a chorus that lets Tate soar to stratospheric heights, while "NM 156" goes full science fiction, its mechanical rhythms and cold atmosphere imagining a world run by machines. Closing epic "Roads to Madness" stretches into nearly ten minutes of brooding, multi-part storytelling.
For collectors tracing the roots of progressive metal, The Warning is essential listening. It is a debut that already sounded like a band thinking several albums ahead.
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