Q2K is the seventh studio album

Studio album

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 by progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Queensrÿche

Queensrÿche

thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....

, released on 14 September 1999

1999 in music

-Events:*January 7**After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.**Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia....

. It was the only Queensrÿche studio album to feature guitarist Kelly Gray

Kelly Gray (musician)

Kelly Gray is an American record producer and musician. He started playing guitar in the late 1970s as a founding member of MYTH, a progressive rock band in the suburbs of Seattle, Wash...

, who, in the early 1980s, was in a band called Myth with vocalist Geoff Tate

Geoff Tate

Geoff Tate is an American singer and musician, who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche...

. "Breakdown" was released as the first single off Q2K.

Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment

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, Queensrÿche's current label, purchased Q2K from Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

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 and re-released it with bonus tracks.

In Canada

Canada

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, the album was released by Anthem Records

Anthem Records

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, also the Canadian home label to fellow Atlantic act Rush

Rush (band)

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.

All songs written by Queensrÿche

Track listing

All songs written by Queensrÿche

1. "Falling Down" – 4:28
2. "Sacred Ground" – 4:12
3. "One Life" – 4:48
4. "When the Rain Comes..." – 5:05
5. "How Could I?" – 3:44
6. "Beside You" – 5:14
7. "Liquid Sky" – 4:53
8. "Breakdown" – 4:11
9. "Burning Man" – 3:42
10. "Wot Kinda Man" – 3:15
11. "The Right Side of My Mind" – 5:51

2006 CD reissue bonus tracks

The album was re-released on August 29, 2006 with the following bonus tracks:

12. "Until There Was You" – 4:06
13. "Howl" – 4:05
14. "Sacred Ground (Live)" – 4:23
15. "Breakdown (Radio Edit)" – 3:11

Music Video

"The Right Side Of My Mind" was released as the band's first video since the Promised Land album and has had occasional airplay on VH1 Classic, which also premiered it in a special co-hosted with Geoff Tate.

Personnel

• Geoff Tate
  Geoff Tate
  Geoff Tate is an American singer and musician, who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche...
  
   - vocals
• Kelly Gray
  Kelly Gray (musician)
  Kelly Gray is an American record producer and musician. He started playing guitar in the late 1970s as a founding member of MYTH, a progressive rock band in the suburbs of Seattle, Wash...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Michael Wilton
  Michael Wilton
  Michael Wilton is an American guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Wilton attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met future Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield and began recording in 1981...
  
   - guitar
• Eddie Jackson
  Eddie Jackson (musician)
  Eddie Jackson is the bass guitarist for the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche. He has been with the group since 1981, when they were known as The Mob....
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Scott Rockenfield
  Scott Rockenfield
  Scott Rockenfield is the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche and the band Slave to the System....
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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