QUEENSRŸCHE Frontman Says New Album Will 'Take A Lot Of People By Surprise'

July 27, 2007

Christa Titus of Billboard.com reports: QUEENSRŸCHE has begun working on the follow-up to last year's "Operation: Mindcrime II" in Seattle. Frontman Geoff Tate tells Billboard.com he hopes the as-yet-untitled set will arrive next summer or fall.

"We're just into the first couple months of writing for it, and it's a theme record. It's based on modern American life, sort of a social commentary," Tate says. "Musically it's very adventurous for us. It's something we haven't done before. It's going to take a lot of people by surprise, and at the same time I think they're going to be very intrigued by the concept of it."

The band, which hits the road in September with HEAVEN AND HELL and ALICE COOPER, will release "Sign of the Times", its second greatest-hits collection on EMI, prior to the tour.

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