QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Talks About 'Home Again'; Video Available

April 12, 2009

A short video clip of QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate discussing the track "Home Again" from the band's new album, "American Soldier", can be viewed at this location.

Tate previously stated about the cut: "There is a lot of emotion attached to this song. The whole idea of separation between loved ones is one of my favorite topics, perhaps because I live and breathe it being away from my kids and my wife while touring. You miss them so much, and it's like you live two separate lives. When you're a soldier and you're away, it's very difficult to bridge those two worlds.

"This song is inspired by a series of letters. The correspondence was between a soldier/father and his young daughter back at home. He was laughing about how he thought it was really cute to him that in the letters, they were both saying the same things and even using the same terminology. Those kinds of coincidences really get to me. Because it was a father-daughter relationship, I asked my daughter Emily, who is ten years old, to sing the song with me. She did a wonderful performance, so innocent. I'd never shared a lead vocal with one of my kids before and emotionally; it was one of the toughest songs for me to sing on the record."

QUEENSRŸCHE's twelfth studio LP, the epic concept album "American Soldier", sold 21,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 25 on The Billboard 200 chart.

QUEENSRŸCHE's previous album, "Operation: Mindcrime II", sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release back in April 2006 to debut at No. 14 on The Billboard 200 chart. This was more than half of the total sales tally registered by 2003's "Tribe", which shifted 20,000 copies in the first week. Meanwhile, the band's 1999 effort, "Q2K", opened with sales of 28,000.

"American Soldier" was made available from Atco/Rhino on March 31 for a suggested list price of $18.98 (CD) and $9.99 (digital). The ambitious album encompasses a dozen songs inspired by numerous interviews with veterans conducted by Geoff Tate, the group's singer and chief songwriter, who was intent on telling their story using their words. After speaking with soldiers who served in various conflicts — from World War II to Iraq — Tate turned their firsthand experiences from the frontlines into an unflinching musical examination of the life of a solider and the consequences of war.

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