I lost some credibility for Queenryche when they released RAGE FOR ORDER, succumbing to pressures to dress thjemselves like Motley Cure or Poison or Dokken or Bon Jovi. But with EMPIRE and OPERATION… they proved once and for all their autenticity and special place in the metal world. It was hard to follow those two great albuns and one had to be expecting a brief decline in thheir next album. And it came in the form of PROMISED LAND, a really weak album, withou any firm orientation, lacking punch, over produced, totally synthesized.