The tour opened with a shortened greatest hits set followed by a revised production of Operation: Mindcrime with live actors and video ; Pamela Moore reprised her role as Sister Mary.

Operation: Mindcrime II is the ninth studio album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche.

In 2005, Dio was revealed to be the voice behind Dr. X in Operation: Mindcrime II, the sequel to Queensrÿche's seminal concept album Operation: Mindcrime.

In 1988, Queensrÿche released Operation: Mindcrime, a narrative concept album that proved a massive critical and commercial success.

Tate alleged that he alone owned the rights to the story although most of the band contributed music to the concept of Mindcrime.

It is a concept album and the sequel to the group's 1988 release, Operation: Mindcrime.

The tour featured performances of both Mindcrime albums in their entirety.

Queensrÿche is better known for being between the heavy metal and glam metal scene, with strong influence of progressive rock, that can be seen in their albums Operation: Mindcrime ( 1987 ) and Empire ( 1991 ).

* Dr. X, the primary antagonist of the Queensryche albums Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime 2

Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.

A filmmaker can work alone this way, as J. Thaddeus " Mindcrime " Skubis did in creating the nearly four-hour The Seal of Nehahra ( 2000 ), the longest work of machinima at the time.

Queensrÿche had the most melodic sound of the three and achieved, with Operation Mindcrime and Empire the genre's most immediate commercial successes, which peaked with the crossover single " Silent Lucidity " reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

The main riff from this song was worked into an instrumental piece played during some shows on the tour in support of this album and eventually morphed into the track " Anarchy-X " on the " Operation: Mindcrime " album.

The group used its headlining status to perform Operation: Mindcrime in its entirety, as well as songs from Empire.

In July 2004, Queensrÿche announced its plans to record a follow-up to 1988's Operation: Mindcrime.

Operation: Mindcrime II was released internationally on March 31, 2006.

Operation: Mindcrime II debuted at No. 14, the highest chart position for a Queensrÿche album since 1997.

Dio's appearance was recorded, and included as an extra on the 2007 DVD release Mindcrime at the Moore.

Geoff Tate also brokered an animated movie deal with Zoetifex Studios for the rights to a film adaptation of Operation: Mindcrime, which would pay him an advance and most of the royalties associated with the movie's merchandising.

The novelist who has been badly baptized in psychoanalysis often gives us the impression that since all men must have an Oedipus complex all men must have the same faces.

The History Of England has often been compared with Green's Short History.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

As has happened so often in the past, the ability to recognize true greatness has been inadequate and tardy.

Too often a beginning bodybuilder has to do his training secretly either because his parents don't want sonny-boy to `` lift all those old barbell things '' because `` you'll stunt your growth '' or because childish taunts from his schoolmates, like `` Hey lookit Mr. America ; ;

This whole development is certain to be of interest to the readers, for the idea has so often been mentioned, somewhat wistfully.

It might be pointed out that the integrating function of religion, for good or ill, has often supported or been identified with other groupings -- political, nationality, language, class, racial, sociability, even economic.

Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.

Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.

The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

The waves are separated by intervals of 15 minutes to an hour or more ( because of their great length ), and this has often lulled people into thinking after the first great wave has crashed that it is all over.

Superstition has often blended with fact to color reports.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

And on the summit of Mount Washington, where thirty-five degrees below zero is commonplace and the wind velocity has registered higher than anywhere else in the world, there is a kind of wisdom to be found that other men often seek in the Himalayas `` because it is there ''.

The vulnerability of Protestant congregations to social differences has often been attributed to the `` folksy spirit '' of Protestant religious life ; ;

The government has recognized the dilemma and is beginning to devise some moral education for the schools -- but the teachers often have no firm conviction and are confused.

this aspect of the total picture has been commented upon often enough.

And in the last five years, the `` Methodist chapel committee has authorized the demolition or, more often, the sale of 764 chapels ''.

This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; ;

The drama itself -- and this seems to be lavishly true of Biblical drama -- often has hardly any relationship with authenticity at all.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr. Cole has placed couples or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow.