Is it true the Kerrang review helped the band?
Paul Suter was a writer for Kerrang and reviewed our demo tape, our EP and gave it a very positive/glowing review. The time was really right for that type of music we were playing at the time. Why did the band release only one video clip to promote Rage For Order? Videos cost a lot of money to make. Just because you make one doesn’t mean it’s going to get aired on any sort of rotation. It’s really a sort of investment. You look at how many records you’ve sold and how many you hope to sell. You’re gonna roll the dice on the expenditure of making a video. If it gets played like ‘Gonna Get Close To You’ did, it got played a few times but it didn’t go into heavy rotation. So we chose not to make a new one. With Operation: Mindcrime, how did the idea to do conceptual album come about? I was in Montreal at the time, living there. I had an idea and I just started writing it down. It grew into a story (and) months later I went back to Seattle to begin working on a record with Queensryche. I pr
