They remastered all their EMI releases recently and it got me back into their music. Promised Land was helped perhaps the least from the mastering because it was already engineered within an inch of its life. It's amazing how sonicly perfect that album is. Give it another spin if you have it laying around and listen to it on a really good system.

I bemoan the loss of well-engineered albums in this century. Several albums were gorgeously mixed in the 90s. Roger Waters' "Amused to Death," Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales," Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes," Soundgarden's "SuperUnknown," Clapton's "From The Cradle" and Rush's "Counterparts" are all starkly different albums that share one important quality: Perfect engineering. I put Promised Land in that upper echelon as well.

I'm VERY hopeful about this album in this very respect, because Queensryche were always sticklers for quality sound with good instrument separation.