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Q2K

1999 studio album by Queensrÿche

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Q2K is the seventh studio album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on September 14, 1999. It was the only Queensrÿche studio album to feature guitarist Kelly Gray as an official member, who, in the early 1980s, was in a band called Myth with vocalist Geoff Tate. "Breakdown" was released as the first single off Q2K. "The Right Side of My Mind" was released as the band's first music video since the album Promised Land and has had occasional airplay on VH1 Classic, which also premiered it in a special co-hosted by Geoff Tate.

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The public source identifies “Q2K” as 1999 studio album by Queensrÿche. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around studio, album and Queensrÿche.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with studio, album and Queensrÿche providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Q2K” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.