Q2K

Infobox Album | Name = Q2K
Type = studio
Artist = Queensrÿche


Released = September 14, 1999
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 49:45
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = Kelly Gray
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:cqv8b5949sqg~T10 link]
*"Q" Rating|3|5 2/00, p.92
Last album = "Hear in the Now Frontier"
(1997)
This album = "Q2K"
(1999)
Next album = "Greatest Hits"
(2000)

"Q2K" is the eighth studio album by progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on 14 September 1999. It was the first and only Queensrÿche studio album to feature guitarist Kelly Gray, who, in the early 1980s, was in a band called Myth with vocalist Geoff Tate. "Breakdown" was released as the first single off "Q2K".

Rhino Entertainment, Queensrÿche's current label, purchased "Q2K" from Atlantic Records and re-released it with bonus tracks.

Track listing

# "Falling Down" – 4:28
# "Sacred Ground" – 4:12
# "One Life" – 4:48
# "When The Rain Comes" – 5:05
# "How Could I?" – 3:44
# "Besides You" – 5:14
# "Liquid Sky" – 4:53
# "Breakdown" – 4:11
# "Burning Man" – 3:42
# "Wot Kinda Man" – 3:15
# "Right Side Of My Mind" – 5:51

Bonus tracks

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

#

"Until There Was You" – 4:06
# "Howl" – 4:05
# "Sacred Ground" (live) – 4:23
# "Breakdown" (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 had had occasional airplay on VH1 Classic, which also premiered it in a special co-hosted with Geoff Tate.

Personnel

*Geoff Tate - vocals
*Kelly Gray - guitar
*Michael Wilton - guitar
*Eddie Jackson - bass guitar
*Scott Rockenfield - drums