This spring, Queensrÿche is doing a tour unlike any the band has done in its 40-plus-year history. And the tour will stop Tuesday night at The Black Sheep in Colorado Springs.

The show will find the progressive metal band playing its 1983 self-titled EP and first full-length album, 1984’s “The Warning,” in their entirety.

Neither of those albums was a hit. It wasn’t until the triple-platinum 1990 album “Empire” and its hit single “Silent Lucidity” that Queensrÿche reached arena-headlining heights.

But the early 1980s were heady days for the band members. They practiced five days a week and saved up enough money to record the EP in a professional 24-track studio, then saw Britain’s popular Kerrang! magazine run a glowing article on the band that generated a pile of letters asking where they could buy what was still an unreleased EP.

So Queensrÿche’s managers, Kim and Diana Harris, put together money to press the EP to vinyl, a move that paid off for all involved.

“It was amazing. I think we did like 50 or 60,000 (copies sold),” Michael Wilton, guitarist and founding member of Queensrÿche recalled in a late-March phone interview. “That’s kind of where other record companies took notice, so it just blossomed from there.”

In summer of 1983, EMI signed Queensrÿche and sent the band to London to record “The Warning,” with James Guthrie, producer of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” at the helm.

“He had great ideas and he was very creative, had good, good ideas and kind of showed us the way and how we could stretch the songs, giving them the biggest potential production value that we could think of,” Wilton said of Guthrie.

After Queensrÿche hit their peak of popularity, there were ups and downs, with a contentious 2012 split with singer Geoff Tate an inflection point.

Tate went solo, while Queensrÿche restarted around new singer Todd La Torre and founding members Wilton and bassist Eddie Jackson. The current lineup also includes guitarist Mike Stone and drummer Casey Grillo.

The new Queensrÿche has released four albums and moved back closer to the classic early Queensrÿche sound.

Wilton said Queensryche’s current fan base favors the band’s early albums, and that has been a factor in the musical direction of the band — and deciding to do the current tour featuring the debut EP and “The Warning.”

“A lot of it came to the fact that the fans wanted to hear the old material. They wanted to hear songs that were not played in the latter days of the first version of Queensrÿche,” Wilton said.