Queensrÿche

== Info ==
Heavy metal band whose name uses a heavy metal umlaut to make themselves look Nordic or German when in fact it means nothing. Name is pronounced "Queen's rike". Three Grammy nominations and the Viewer's Choice Award at the 1991 MTV Music Awards (they had also been nominated in four other categories). They had remained underground until Silent Lucidity that year. Three albums have gone platinum, with Empire going multi-platinum. Their first two albums went gold. Other albums have seen mild success. Operation Livecrime made the top forty albums. Video album Mindcrime at the Moore was a top ten hit. Several hit singles throughout the nineties and beyond, with Eyes of a Stranger making the top forty in 1988.
== Genres ==
Progressive Metal
Category:Nineties
Category:Progressive Metal
Category:Hard Rock
Category:Progressive Rock