WE SEE THE LIGHT
OF THOSE WHO FIND
THE WORLD HAS
PASSED THEM BY
TOO LATE TO SAVE A DREAM
THAT'S GROWING OLD
WE RELALIZE THAT FATE
MUST HIDE IT'S FACE
FROM THOSE WHO TRY
TO SEE THE DISTANT SIGNS
OF UNFORETOLD
OH OH TAKE HOLD..
The Warning
is the first
studio album
by American
Heavy metal band
released on
September 7, 1984,
and reissued on
May 6, 2003,
with
three bonus tracks.
In 2019,
Metal Hammer
ranked it as the 13th
best power metal
album
of all time.
Background
Queensrÿche
wrote the material for
The Warning
during their tour
in support of the
Queensrÿche EP,
inspired by world events
and the 1949
George Orwell
novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The album was recorded
in various
recording studios
in London
with
Pink Floyd-producer
James Guthrie.
In 2013,
lead singer
Geoff Tate
explained the band's
dissatisfaction with
the album's mix:
"The only time I ever experienced
[a record label restricting creative freedom]
was during the recording of
Queensrÿche's first album,
The Warning.
We went
$300,000 over budget
and the
label took
the record
out of our hands
and gave it to
someone else to mix. ...
The guy that mixed
the album
had no clue what
Queensrÿche was.
He never listened
to hard rock music
and didn't take
input from anyone
in the band.
He just mixed it
according to how
he thought
it should sound.
No-one in the band
could listen to that record.
We all hated it."
The Warning
shows the band
in an early stage
of development,
playing straight
heavy metal songs
unlike later albums
in which more
experimentation
was expressed.
It was a
moderate commercial success
in the United States,
although none of the singles
charted domestically.
However,
"Take Hold of the Flame"
was an
international hit,
particularly in Japan.
In support of the release,
Queensrÿche
went on a
worldwide tour from
August 1984
through to
July 1985.
During the American
leg of their tour,
they were the
opening act for
Kiss
on their
1984–85
Animalize Tour
and
Iron Maiden
on their
1984–85
World Slavery Tour,
while in Europe
they opened for
Dio
on their
The Last in Line tour 1984.
They also opened for
Accept
on their
Metal Heart tour in 1985.
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