Q2K

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title: "Q2K" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1999-albums", "queensrÿche-albums", "atlantic-records-albums", "rhino-entertainment-albums", "albums-produced-by-kelly-gray", "hard-rock-albums-by-american-artists", "alternative-rock-albums-by-american-artists"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q2K" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Q2K
type	studio
artist	Queensrÿche
cover	Queensryche - Q2K cover.jpg
released	September 14, 1999
recorded	1999
genre	{{flatlist
length	49:27
label	Atlantic
producer	Queensrÿche
prev_title	Hear in the Now Frontier
prev_year	1997
next_title	Tribe
next_year	2003
misc	{{Singles
name	Q2K
type	studio
single1	Breakdown
single1date	1999
single2	The Right Side of My Mind
single2date	1999
type	studio
file	Queensryche - Breakdown.ogg
description	"Breakdown"
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| name = Q2K | type = studio | artist = Queensrÿche | cover = Queensryche - Q2K cover.jpg | alt = | released = September 14, 1999 | recorded = 1999 | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist|

• Hard rock
• alternative rock | length = 49:27 | label = Atlantic | producer = Queensrÿche | prev_title = Hear in the Now Frontier | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Tribe | next_year = 2003 | misc = {{Singles | name = Q2K | type = studio | single1 = Breakdown | single1date = 1999 | single2 = The Right Side of My Mind | single2date = 1999 | type = studio | file = Queensryche - Breakdown.ogg | description="Breakdown" | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 =Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | rev2Score = 5/10 | rev3 = PopMatters | rev3Score = | rev4 = Q | rev4Score = | noprose = yes

Q2K is the seventh studio album by American heavy 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.

On August 29, 2006, Rhino Entertainment released an expanded & remastered edition of Q2K which included four bonus tracks. In Canada, the album was released by Anthem Records.

Two songs ("Discipline" and "Monologue") still remain unreleased after Q2K sessions.

Track listing

| all_writing = Queensrÿche | title1 = Falling Down | length1 = | title2 = Sacred Ground | length2 = | title3 = One Life | length3 = | title4 = When the Rain Comes... | length4 = | title5 = How Could I? | length5 = | title6 = Beside You | length6 = | title7 = Liquid Sky | length7 = | title8 = Breakdown | length8 = | title9 = Burning Man | length9 = | title10 = Wot Kinda Man | length10 = | title11 = The Right Side of My Mind | length11 = | headline = 2006 CD reissue bonus tracks | title12 = Until There Was You | length12 = | title13 = Howl | length13 = | title14 = Sacred Ground | note14 = live | length14 = | title15 = Breakdown | note15 = radio edit | length15 =

Personnel

;Queensrÿche

• Geoff Tate – vocals
• Michael Wilton – lead guitar
• Kelly Gray – rhythm guitar
• Eddie Jackson – bass
• Scott Rockenfield – drums

;Technical personnel

• Queensrÿche – production, engineering
• Kelly Gray – mixing
• Jon Plum – mixing at London Bridge Studios, Seattle
• Eddy Schreyer – mastering

Charts

::data[format=table] | Chart (1999) | Peak position | Japanese Albums (Oricon) | |---|---|---| | 65 | | | ::

References

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Q2K – Queensrÿche". [[AllMusic]].
2. (August 1, 2007). "The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties". [[Collector's Guide Publishing]].
3. Angotti, Chris. "Queensrÿche, Q2K".
4. (February 2000). "Queensrÿche – Q2K". [[Q (magazine).
5. (August 30, 2006). "QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Q2K (Expanded & Remastered)' Listening Party". BLABBERMOUTH.NET.
6. [https://archive.today/20130708062238/http://www.anybodylistening.net/breakdownroom/index.php?topic=3594.msg72771%23msg72771]
7. "Actual Songwriting Credits of Q2k".
8. link. [[Oricon]]

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