Side Projects

HOME BEFORE THE STORM OPERATION I OPERATION II OPERATION III OPERATION IV SIDE PROJECTS COMMUNITY Rockenfield/Speer: TeleVoid (1998)

TeleVoid was the first of two musical collaborations between Scott Rockenfield and Paul Speer. The duo provided the soundtrack to Michael Boydstun's computer animated science fiction film about a television that beams out hallucinatory visions.

The film is a critique on the effect of TV on the human mind. The soundtrack features a performance of the Queensrÿche song “Chasing Blue Sky” with vocalist Jason Ames. Rockenfield and Speer were nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of “Best Original Music” for a long-form video (TeleVoid) in 1998.

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Rockenfield/Speer: Hell's Canyon (2000)

A critically acclaimed instrumental album, Hell's Canyon was written by Scott Rockenfield and Paul Speer. An infusion of hard rock with progressive and new age elements, the songs are a dynamic soundtrack of both artists' vision of the canyon, which is the deepest gorge in North America and located along the border of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington and western Idaho in the United States.

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Spys4Darwin: microfish (2001)

Chris DeGarmo's first music outside of Queensrÿche came in the form of Spys4Darwin, a “supergroup” also featuring Sean Kinney and Mike Inez of Alice in Chains and Sponge frontman Vin Dombroski. The band released an EP called microfish in 2001 before disbanding a few years later. The songs are very melodic, featuring an alternative and grunge-like vibe and some eclectic acoustic and electric guitar playing.

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Geoff Tate: Geoff Tate (2002)

Original Queensrÿche vocalist Geoff Tate released his first solo album in 2002. The record was a stark departure from the traditional Queensrÿche sound, incorporating many different styles of music, including jazz, R&B and motown. Overall, Tate's self-titled album was aimed at a more adult contemporary audience with flourishes of hard rock. The record was recorded with a host of mostly unknown Seattle-area musicians.

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Slave to the System: Slave to the System (2002/2006)

Similar to Spys4Darwin, Slave to the System was a combination of musicians from respected bands. Scott Rockenfield and former Queensrÿche guitarist Kelly Gray hooked up with Brother Cane's frontman and guitarist Damon Johnson. Together with bassist Roman Glick and guitarist/vocalist Scotty Heard, the group independently released a captivating mainstream hard rock record. The album was picked up by Spitfire Records and re-released in 2006 with a couple of different songs. The band is currently on hiatus.

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Soulbender: Soulbender (2004)

Soulbender was a project of Michael Wilton. The group was comprised of ex-My Sister's Machine vocalist Nick Pollock and various other Pacific Northwest musicians. They released a self-titled debut album in 2004 that embraced a aggressive, dark, guitar-driven sound that recalled the earlier years of Queensrÿche with a modern hard rock approach. The band stayed together for a few years before disbanding.

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Scott Rockenfield: The X Chapters (2008)

The X Chapters was Rockenfield's first solo album. Composed like a movie score, the record features moody, cinematic instrumental material that helped set the stage for Scott's continuing career as a composer of film scores and theatrical trailers for motion pictures and TV commercials.

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Scott Rockenfield: Albino Farm (2009)

Rockenfield composed the original motion picture soundtrack for Albino Farm in 2009. The movie was a straight-to-DVD release horror film of suspect quality, but the score is an intense ride of darkness and light, and a further illustration of Scott's evolution as a composer.

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Geoff Tate: Kings & Thieves (2012)

Tate's second solo record is more hard rock than its 2002 predecessor, featuring the guitar work of ex-Queensrÿche guitarist Kelly Gray and former Myth keyboardist Randy Gane. Tate employs a “spoken word” vocal style on a few songs, while the music is stylistic hybrid between Queensrÿche's Dedicated to Chaos and Q2k releases.

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Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche: Frequency Unknown (2013)

Tate was temporarily given permission to use the Queensrÿche name in 2013 while he and his former bandmates argued in court over ownership of the band name. In the interim, under the “Queensrÿche” name, Tate released Frequency Unknown. The record is written primarily by long-time Tate collaborator Jason Slater (Operation: Mindcrime II, American Soldier, Dedicated to Chaos) and is a riff-heavy hard rock album.

While Frequency Unknown features guest guitar solos by Ty Tabor (King's X), K.K. Downing (Judas Priest) and others, it is highly criticized for being a contrived piece of work and more of a slap at Tate's former bandmates than a legitimate release. It contains various re-recordings of classic Queensrÿche songs that are extremely poor in comparisons to the originals.

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