Operation: Mindcrime
[disambiguation: Operation Mindfuck]
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 schizophrenic and the full re-bicamerilization of his mind. The album concludes with the hospitalized Nikki staring at his own face in the mirror, unable to recognize his own visage.
