Operation: Mindcrime [disambiguation: error ]
Concept album by Queensrÿche, a band associated with both progressive metal and hair-metal , despite their professed aversion to the latter. Operation: Mindcrime 's narrative revolves around the central protagonist Nikki, a narcotics addict who descends gradually into a mode of full depersonalization via a permanent schizophrenia and the full bicameralism of his mind. The album concludes with the hospitalized Nikki staring at his own face in the mirror, unable to recognize his own visage.