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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE - UNLEASH THE FURY - SPITFIRE
Unstoppable guitar extraordinaire is back with a vengeance again with his latest with Rising Force unleashing of fancy fretboard workings with Unleash The Fury. A powerfully charged album bestowing classical touches along with rock music elements adding power driving grooves only a mastermind of this kind can create. From the beginning track Locked & Loaded with swift harmonic chorded blends to the melodic graces of Winds Of War (Invasion) vocalist Doogie White displays competent approaches more that meeting the musical expectations of what Mr. Malmsteen creates. Musical highlights of songs of interest are Cracking The Whip, The Bogeyman to the instrumentals of Paraphrase and Fuguett (Bach variation theme) for which this song has renaissance style soloing one can hear the plucked chords strummed with personal feeling. Overall, this album shatters any of the guitar hero claims for Yngwie Malmsteen rules supreme, but not being too overly cocky about his musical goods he truly delivers what he generates musically. If there was one negative thing that can be mentioned about this CD it would have to be the standstill of tastes. Each of his musical projects can be a bit repetitive sound-wise but as the music industry booms so do the artists of the past reclaiming the bygone days of glory claiming new fans along the way. Compelling, refreshingly serious this album speaks volumes. - Jussi
YNGWIE JOHANN MALMSTEEN - CONCERTO SUITE FOR GUITAR AND ORCHESTRA DVD - EAGLE VISION
Recorded in 2001, this is the North American release of a concert that features Yngwie and the New Japan Philharmonic. Yngwie has arranged everything for this and has done so it is performed as a purely classical number. It is pointed out that this has absolutely nothing to do with rock, heavy metal or any band fronting an orchestra, that Yngwie’s electric - and for a few minutes acoustic - guitar acts merely as a piece of the orchestra. All that is kind of fitting, in one sense because he does manage to make it work as a part of the whole, but at the same time the guitars do seem to drown out the whole. That though may be the way the DVD has been recorded and produced.
Don’t look for any bonus material on this. The only ‘extra’ is a very brief interview which does not even feature the star in front of a camera, but only his voice, as if a radio or telephone interview was included to provide the mandatory bonus tag. - Anna Tergel
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