By Steve Newton One of my favourite prog-metal albums of all time is Operation: Mindcrime, released by Seattle-based Queensrÿche in the Year of Our Metal Lord, 1988. It was a concept album about a drug addict who becomes disillusioned with the corrupt society of his time and reluctantly becomes an assassin for a revolutionary group. … Continue reading God bless Geoff Tate’s lead vocals on Queensrÿche’s “Spreading the Disease”