Album Rating: 5.0

You guys are deaf, I'll love this album until the day I die! If anyone wants to just all the sudden get Yngwie's music then check out the Concerto(sp?) he did awhilie ago.



I guess people just don't understand his music, his older stuff that is. Some of his newer albums just suck, but this album is really, really good. Once you get over the fact that he's not playing that fast out of an ego he is playing that fast because that's the way he plays you'll fall in love with the guy.

yjm is a guitar god

hey whats wrong eith swedes all of a sudden!? i just think he's funny :D

Album Rating: 5.0

pretty good review, yngwie is a god

I thought the review was fairly fanboyish, but hey, it happens. I agree with Shadows on this one, his ego is huge (that's an understatement) and he really lacks substance IMO. He's just really fast and accurate...this album and songs like Arpeggios From Hell bore the hell out of me.

Album Rating: 4.0

I am strongly considering rewriting this, I've gotten quite a bit better since I wrote this like a year ago. But my rating will remain the same - I think I'd change my opening paragraph to explaining how this is essentially the first "power metal" album.

Great review. I love Black Star. Too bad I cant find this album anywhere.

black star owns.

Album Rating: 3.5

Well, as we all know Malmsteen is virtually unmatched in terms of technical skill except by maybe only a handful of people on the planet, even fewer of them well known (*Ahem* Michael Angelo Batio *ahem*) but really, after you hear a couple of his songs, you've heard enough. The lightning fast modal and scalar runs and sweep-picking and tapping is nice to accent solos with and change things up, but really thats about all Malmsteen does. In terms of actual composition and songwriting, I think Jason Becker was and still is far superiour to Malmsteen although Lou Gherig's Disease took Becker's ability to actually play his compositions himself a long time ago. IMO Yngwie deserves a great deal of respect, but not the hero worship that people shower him with.

Album Rating: 4.5

excellent album (but too small)...

Check also Fire on Ice...

Yngwie Malmsteen is so overrated. He solos well, and his riffs are good, but his songwriting is some of the wost ever. Also each and every vocalist he has ever used is either Gay-sounding or Vocally dry. This Message Edited On 10.04.08

He's overrated for sure. A great guitar player, but overrated. I can shred pretty well and I've only been playing for about 2 years, so I don't feel that shredding alone is a massive achievement.
Petrucci >>>>>>>>>>>>> Malmsteen in both technical and songwriting skill. And yes, I have heard this album and it's pretty good, my main problem being that the shred:song ratio is around 20:1.

"He's overrated for sure. A great guitar player, but overrated. I can shred pretty well and I've only been playing for about 2 years, so I don't feel that shredding alone is a massive achievement"

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Album Rating: 4.5

So he's overrated. Alright, but can this guy make epic music? You bet your holly jolly a$$ he can. Like it or not, YM is a guitar god, and this is his crowning achievement.

my only problem with him is his attitude; he comes off as extremely cocky.

Album Rating: 4.0

Don't be unleashing the fuckin fury now.

I think Yngwie didn't get enough attention as a child.

the attention he gets now more than makes up for it.

^ Too more

i can't deny his skill though, he pretty much deserves most of that attention