Kings & Thieves
album by Geoff Tate
Kings & Thieves is the second solo studio album by former Queensrÿche vocalist Geoff Tate, released on November 6, 2012. It follows his eponymous first solo effort, released a decade earlier. Kings & Thieves sold about 1,800 copies in the U.S. in its first week, and failed to chart. The album was produced by longtime Queensrÿche collaborator Kelly Gray, who also played on the album.
Background
One of Tate's New Year's resolutions for 2012 was to make a new solo record and releasing it within that year. According to Tate, the album took about six months to make, as he started on January 2 and had finished it in July. Tate has described it as more of a rock record than his first solo album.
In April 2012, during the making of the solo album, internal struggles within Queensrÿche resulted in the firing of Tate's stepdaughter Miranda from running the band's fan club, and Tate's wife Susan as the band manager, which resulted in Tate throwing several punches and physically assaulting and spitting on Scott Rockenfield and Michael Wilton. Matters were not resolved in the following months, after which the other band members fired Tate from Queensrÿche in June, leading to a court case that has temporarily allowed both parties to use the band's name. According to Tate, "There probably was some influence about what was going on with my former bandmates because some of what was happening was going on at the same time as the recording.
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