275 - Queensrÿche Roads To Madness 1984

Queensrÿche are a Heavy Metal band far removed from the norm. Their approach is dramatic, even bombastic in places, but intensely melodic and coherent. Queensryche’s makes their major label debut in 1984 with "The Warning". The album's epic is 'Roads To Madness', a lengthy piece that closes the record. Rising from a slow, dramatic opening, it takes some novel turns, moving from thoughtful gentility to high drama and then beyond in classical style, eventually reaching a furious, racing conclusion.