Empire - 20th Anniversary Edition

Queensrÿche has partnered with Capitol/EMI for the September 14 release  of an expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of the band’s triple platinum-certified breakout album, Empire.  The new 2CD and digital packages both include the remastered album, featuring six hit singles,  including the #1 smash “Silent Lucidity,” as well as 13 bonus tracks,  among them 10 previously unreleased live performances recorded in 1990 at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. The 2CD package is presented in a  lift-top box with five postcards, a fold-out poster and a booklet  featuring rare photos from the band’s personal archive.

After building a devoted fan base with album and EP releases throughout  the 1980s, including 1988’s critically acclaimed Operation: Mindcrime,  Queensrÿche broke into the mainstream across North America and abroad  with the 1990 release of Empire.  In the U.S., the album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and its hit ballad “Silent Lucidity”  quickly became a heavy rotation staple at rock radio and on MTV, topping Billboard’s Modern Rock singles chart and earning Queensrÿche the  coveted MTV Viewers Choice Award for the song’s music video. Empire also made the U.K.’s Top 10, and the album’s international success led to  Queensrÿche’s 18-month headlining “Building Empires” world tour, the  band’s longest trek to date.

Empire also features the Billboard Top 10 Modern Rock hits “Jet City  Woman” and “Another Rainy Night,” the Top 20 single, “Anybody Listening?,” and the Top 30 singles “Best I Can” and "Empire.”  In  addition to the aforementioned live recordings, Empire (20th Anniversary Edition)’s bonus tracks include “Last Time in Paris” from the Ford Forlaine soundtrack, “Dirty Lil’ Secret,” and the band’s cover of Simon  & Garfunkel’s “Scarborough Fair.”

Since forming in Bellevue, Washington in 1981, Queensrÿche has sold more than 30 millions records around the world.