With little doubt, there is a great deal of similarity among today's female-fronted heavy metal bands, especially those in the European theater. (They're few and far between in America). The formula is the same. Some lass with operatic vocals combined with basic melodic heavy metal, touched with some power metal at times, but always steeped in some classical symphonic motif…
Sourced from the Original Master Tapes, Mastered By Bob Ludwig, Cut at Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios, and Pressed at Optimal in Germany. Cut at Full Length as a Double LP for the First Time!
Queen's fourteenth studio album, and their first of the '90s, would prove to be the last album Freddie Mercury worked on, and yet also, despite his hugely deteriorating health, a work containing some of his most powerful and emotive vocal performances.
Unbeknownst to the public, Freddie Mercury had been diagnosed with the AIDS virus in the late '80s. Although his health weakened by the '90s, Mercury insisted that the band work on music until the very end; their final album turned out to be 1991's Innuendo…