Queensrÿche

Empire

1990 · Hard Rock · EMI USA

Europe · 2 LP 198 7 950691

Credits

Producer: Peter Collins
Mixed by: James "Jimbo" Barton, Dan Harjung
Written by: Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Scott Rockenfield, Eddie Jackson

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.