Hear in the Now Frontier
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| Released | March 25, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Studio | Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, Tennessee, Studio Litho, Seattle, Washington | |||
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| Length | 57:15 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Producer | Peter Collins | |||
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| Singles from Hear in the Now Frontier | ||||
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"Sign of the Times"
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
Hear in the Now Frontier is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released in 1997. It was partly recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle, the home studio of Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, and was engineered and mixed by Toby Wright, who had recently worked with Alice in Chains.
The album debuted at No. 19 but quickly vanished from the charts. Hear in the Now Frontier features a more basic, stripped-down musical style than anything the band had released to date. Many listeners criticized the band's shift to a more mainstream sound.
Despite the reaction, the singles "Sign of the Times" and "You" received substantial airplay. Both tracks, as well as "Some People Fly", would later be featured on best-of compilations. Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensrÿche, a 2007 compilation, also takes its name from the song.
The song "All I Want" features guitarist Chris DeGarmo on lead vocals, the only time to date that any band member besides the incumbent lead vocalist had done so on a studio track. After the album's release, DeGarmo left the band.