Operation: Mindcrime

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fter Geoff Tate departed Queensryche in which a lawsuit followed resulting in him loosing the ability to use that name he was forced to create his own band. Perhaps to spite his former band mates or out of pride for his past accomplishments, Tate named his new act Operation: Mindcrime after the Quennsryche hit album of the same name. The band would also be known as Geoff Tate's Operation: Mindcrime. Although he started his new act under the moniker Queensryche in 2012 under the license of the lawsuit to complete touring obligations, in essence creating two bands of the same name for a time, he lost that ability in 2014 and in 2015 the debut album of his new act was released in the form of The Key (2015) with a massive membership featuring John Moyer (bass), Simon Wright (drums), Brian Tichy (drums), Kelly Gray (guitars (rhythm)/vocals (backing)/vocals (lead): track 11), Scott Moughton (guitars (lead)/vocals (backing)), Randy Gane (keyboards) and Geoff Tate (vocals (lead)/keyboards/saxophone). The line-up might be large but they played their various instruments on various tracks throughout. This album was the first part of a trilogy and the line-up remained for the remaining two components of Resurrection (2016) and Read All... ⏬