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The best news of all is that "The Verdict" is a cast-iron keeper. Heavy metal doesn't need to be complicated, folks. And La Torre will sing everything with hair-raising power and skill. A QUEENSRŸCHE show in 2019 is going to be brilliant fun: you will get all the hits alongside new material that fits with them. But then that's what you get when you give the fans what they actually want and be creative, rather than trying to drag the whole thing down a blind alley. When you consider how fundamental Tate was to the band's early success and most celebrated works, La Torre's presence has barely caused a ripple of dissent. As they proved admirably on 2011's self-titled comeback and, with increasing confidence and verve, on "Condition Human" in 2015, founder and guitarist Michael Wilton and his resurgent comrades are experiencing a career renaissance for the ages. QUEENSRŸCHE's third album since the arrival of Todd La Torre arrives burdened with nothing more unpleasant than high expectations and a prevailing sense of relief that this legendary band once again sound, more or less, like they did when metalheads first fell in love with them.

What a difference a few years can make, however. Irrespective of what was going on behind the scenes, they seemed determined to alienate their entire fan base. Even worse, their live shows were increasingly dominated by new material, with classics from "Operation: Mindcrime" and "Empire" in short supply. The fact is, toward the end of Tate's tenure, QUEENSRŸCHE didn't sound like QUEENSRŸCHE. It was pretty hard to imagine anyone beyond Geoff Tate's immediate friends and family feeling particularly excited about the prospect of a new QUEENSRŸCHE album, and while "Dedicated to Chaos" was full of interesting ideas and strong melodies, even the band's most devoted fans must surely have been stifling a bemused yawn by that point.