In a new interview with Cassius Morris, Geoff Tate was asked how he found his “vocal range” during his teenage years.

He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, I found my vocal range rather early in life.

According to the interview, a friend of Tate's had a band that needed a place to rehearse at his grandmother's house while she was on holiday.

This led to Tate inviting the band to rehearse there and discovering he could sing high like Geddy Lee and low like Joe Cocker.

Tate also talked about changes in the music industry over the last four decades, particularly with more artists choosing the independent route and recording their music at home studios.“It's completely different now,” he said.

“Yeah, absolutely different.

Every commercial platform is different,” Tate continued.

“The way you distribute music, the way we listen to music has really changed.” He mentioned the invention of earbuds and how it changed everything.” With the technology progressing so much now,” Tate noted that the bass response and frequencies have leap years away from where they were in 1988.

“The analog-to-digital converters were just really at the beginning of their development,” he said.

“And now they've got — I don't know — version 22 now that we're using.” Tate's new album, “Operation: Mindcrime III,” will be released on May 3.

The LP's first single, “Power,” was made available in late March.