Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame
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Free Music Review: Ho Hum...
Hit: 2 Stars
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Same chord progressions, same modulations, same cadences (Harmonic Minor V - i) with predictable diminished appeggio runs and harmonic minor sequences. Same guitar tone, same banal lyrics, same immature themes of dungeons and demons. Heck, even some of the song riffs are ripped off his own previous songs. The opening riff to "Damnation Game" is so similiar to "I'll See The Light Tonight" from the Marching Out album I couldn't help but laugh, "Caprici Di Diablo" uses very similar passages as found on his "Far Beyond The Sun" from his Rising Force Album, I wonder can he sue himself for breach of copyright ??? :-)
Sorry Yngwie, I really want to love each new album you release, but each time you dissapoint.
Remember when Yngwie came to prominence with his "Rising Force" album? I do! Of course, before that he was with Steeler (amusing at best, but an important step/time-filler for the Young Swede Viking fresh off the boat landed in LA) and then Alcatrazz (decent songs, some new ground, but with screaming and straining vocals). The Rising Force album was truly ground-breaking and awe-inspiring. I'm sure it resulted in many guitar players either giving up or burning out with tendonitis...
Come on Yngwie, where's your inspiration and originality? Do us (and yourself) a favour and recapture the true flame! Give us something fresh and new and exciting, something worth us paying for and worth you playing for... PLEASE !!!
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Free Music Review: Great Playing, Kind of Boring after all this Time.
Hit: 2 Stars
I am an Yngwie die hard fan, and I have been so for more than 23 years. I have every single thing he has ever published, and the truth is that I was somehow disappointed with this album.
After so much time, it seems like Yngwie has lost his creativty, and is just digging through his "Riff chest" bringing stuff left over from other albums. Almost all of the songs could be found in any other of his last 4 or 5 albums.
The playing is great! He is Yngwie after all!, but just there is no more surprising playing, new kinds of music, or things you have not heard from him before.
Don't buy this album if you have never heard Yngwie before, because definitely is not his best work at all. Go for the 80's and 90's stuff, or buy a Gratest Hits Album to really appreciate his work.
I have always said that, whenever Yngwie plays Heavy metal, instead of showing off his virtuosism, that is where his good music comes. This album is pure show off playing with lack of punch, and not so much the great "Blow you away" NeoClassic Heavy Metal he has delivered in the past.
Free Music Review: Just another YJM album
Hit: 2 Stars
No matter how big of a Yngwie fan you are, you have to admit this album cover is just silly. But that's YJM, over the top and flamboyant.
I've been a fan since "Fire and Ice". "Perpetual Flame" resembles "War to End all Wars", I think. In a nutshell, Yngwie's records (including this one) all sound similar. He somehow has managed to recycle his "Demon Driver riff" on this record too, and call it a different tune (also done on UTF record). Expect Perpetual to have nothing but cheese ball lyrics with fast, whiney guitar solos. He does the same E minor scale runs over, and over. His drummer is especially boring on this record. "Unleash the Fury" was one of his better ones, and this one doesn't come close. I saw YJM in concert on this Perpetual tour, and he sounded good. His singer was good live and was cool in the fact that he didn't dance around in tights like Peter Pan, I mean like Yngwie. Yngwie opted to make use of his cool singer by doing 40 minutes of guitar solos... Bummer. Like America, Yngwie is in a need of big change.
Free Music Review: Emotionless guitar machine
Hit: 2 Stars
I won't say this is the worst album Yngwie ever released, but it is definitely undescript, like most of the other albums after 2000 (except for the Concerto Suite). Nothing is impressive but the speed. I wonder why this album remains on the top selling chart on Amazon. That is the reason I bought this album. Aside from the boring guitar, the vocal is also horrible. "Ripper" Omen is no longer the powerful singer he used to be. I feel a little discomfortable when listening to his awkward screaming. In addition, please don't sing, Mr Malmsteen.
Nonetheless, Yngwie is still the best guitarist on the planet. If you really like to enjoy him, buy the best three albums: Odyssey (Live in Leningrad), Trilogy, and Rising Force.
Free Music Review: Not as good as earlier work
Hit: 2 Stars
I think I have had it with YJM. In terms of guitar playing, he has obviously pioneered the neo-classical movement/technique and such. But this album makes me believe he has nothing more to offer than the usual bit: arpeggios, more arpeggios, diminished runs.. I dont like the vocal melodies in the songs, the lyrics seem contrived and not very interesting or imaginative I guess. I think this album sounds weak in its production as well. The guitars sound thin, it doesnt sound mixed very well. I certainly respect Malmsteen for his skill and his place in making musical history, but I think his best work is in his past. Sorry fans, my .02.