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Empire (Queensrÿche album)

Empire
Queensryche - Empire cover.jpg
Studio album by Queensrÿche
Released August 20, 1990
Recorded Vancouver Studios, Vancouver, Canada, Spring 1990
Triad Studios, Redmond, Washington (tracks 6, 12-14)
Genre Heavy metal, progressive metal
Length 63:23
Label EMI USA
Producer Peter Collins
Queensrÿche chronology
Operation: Mindcrime
(1988)		 Empire
(1990)		 Promised Land
(1994)
Singles from Empire
  1. "Empire"
    Released: 1990
  2. "Silent Lucidity"
    Released: February 14, 1991
  3. "Best I Can"
    Released: June 1991
  4. "Jet City Woman"
    Released: August 1991
  5. "Another Rainy Night (Without You)"
    Released: November 1991
  6. "Anybody Listening?"
    Released: 1992
Music sample
"Silent Lucidity"
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10
Entertainment Weekly D
PopMatters 6/10 stars
(20th Anniversary Edition)
Record Collector 3/5 stars
(20th Anniversary Edition)
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3.5/5 stars

Empire is the fourth full-length album by the American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released on August 20, 1990. The album stands as Queensrÿche's most commercially successful release, reaching triple-platinum status and the primary single, the power ballad "Silent Lucidity", reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Silent Lucidity" was also nominated for the Grammy Awards of 1992 in the categories Best Rock Song and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.


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