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	QUEENSRYCHE - 'Mindcrime' Art Direction Company Enlisted For Sequel
	According to a posting on QUEENSRŸCHE's official web site, Reiner Design Concepts, the art direction company that did all the artwork for 1988's "Operation: Mindcrime", has been signed back on for the band's upcoming CD, which is currently going under the working title of "Operation: Mindcrime II". Production has already begun and the group expect artwork by the end of the year. In other news, QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate has confirmed that "Operation: Mindcrime II" will NOT be the name of the band's new album once it is released. QUEENSRŸCHE's follow-up to 2003's "Tribe" is scheduled for an early 2006 release via Rhino Entertainment. "Bootleg"-quality live recordings of two tracks slated to appear on the new CD — "Hostage" and "I'm American" — are available for download at Queensryche.com. [http://www.queensryche.com/releases/operation-mindcrime-2/paraphernalia.html] Since their formation in 1981 near Seattle, QUEENSRŸCHE have released eight studio albums and have sold more than 10 million records worldwide. "Empire", the 1990 follow-up to "Operation: Mindcrime", sold more than three million copies thanks in part to the enormous success of the songs "Silent Lucidity" and "Jet City Woman". Released in 1994, "Promised Land" was certified platinum and featured the hits "I Am I" and "Bridge". In a recent USA Today readers poll, QUEENSRŸCHE were ranked eighth on the list of "Greatest American Rock Bands of All Time."
	Source: Blabbermouth