The final pieces are falling into place for “Operation: Mindcrime III”

Kieran Robertson, a Scottish guitarist who plays in the solo band of former Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tate, discussed the progress of recording sessions for Geoff’s upcoming third and final chapter in Queensrÿche’s iconic “Operation: Mindcrime” album series in a recent interview with Ernest Skinner of Canada’s Border City Rock Talk, as per Blabbermouth. When asked if they are now finishing up the LP or if they are still recording it, Kieran responded as follows.

Yeah, super finishing touches. It’s me, Geoff, [Disturbed bassist] John Moyer [who is producing the effort] and then obviously all the other amazing musicians who have played on it. But right now it’s just me, Geoff and John going over the final, final touches of the mixing and stuff. So we were a couple of days in Texas. We were just adding some new stuff. And then we have two days off at the end of this tour, [and we’re] going to San Francisco to finalize it. So I’m fairly confident within the next month we’ll have a… I mean, I’ve got the songs. It’s really minimal things now. It’s, like, ‘That snare drum needs to come out or [be] turn[ed] up.’ But in terms of listening to the album, yeah, it’s killer.

Kieran responded as follows when asked if “Operation: Mindcrime III” would be more like the 1988 original “Operation: Mindcrime” album, its follow-up, 2006’s “Operation: Mindcrime II,” or if it will be something entirely different.

That’s a good question, man. I really like ‘Operation: Mindcrime II’ as well. What we tried to do, and me and John spoke about that, is we wanna bring you back to the ‘Mindcrime I’ universe with a modern feel — just modern as in the drums sound bigger. ‘Operation: Mindcrime’ is a very sort of tinny-sounding album. It’s an incredible album, but just [by] today’s standards, now this album’s gonna have some bottom end and some punch. But I think definitely ‘Operation: Mindcrime I’ would be, from my standpoint of writing it and production, that’s where my head was.

What Kieran said about the number of songs that would ultimately be featured on “Operation: Mindcrime III”.

Right now we’re still sort of deciding that. Right now, in a Dropbox folder, I have about 10 songs. That’s what we’re kind of working with right now. It could be more, could be less. That’s up to the big boss man to decide. I just submit them.