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| Perpetual Flame | 
 enlarge | Artist: Yngwie Malmsteen
Label: Rising Force Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 1703
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 1
UPC: 616892987826
EAN: 0616892987826
ASIN: B001FZ09SW
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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Condition: Brand new and factory sealed. Most orders shipped within 24 hours directly from our warehouse.
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| Tracks:
| • | Death Dealer | | • | Damnation Game | | • | Live to Fight (Another Day) | | • | Red Devil | | • | Four Horsement (Of the Apocalypse) | | • | Priest of the Unholy | | • | Be Careful What You Wish For | | • | Caprici di Diablo | | • | Lament | | • | Magic City | | • | Leventh Hour | | • | Heavy Heart |
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Album Description
Yngwie Malmsteen's 2008 master piece is entitled Perpetual Flame, an 11-track CD bringing in a new line up of musicians featuring Tim "Ripper"Owens, the ex-vocalist of Judas Priest and Iced Earth. The album was produced by Yngwie, engineered and mixed by Roy Z (Judas Priest, White Snake, Rob Halford). Yngwie Malmsteen is one of Rock's premiere virtuoso guitarists. Yngwie has dominated the world of solo guitar for two decades. When he was barely 20, Yngwie exploded onto the music scene with his jaw-dropping technique of lightning fast harmonic minor scalar riffing. 12 tracks.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Sloppiest piece of work I've ever heard. Shame on you, Yngwie. January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot believe how utterly sloppy this piece of work is. There are way too many points on this CD where you honettly cannot tell what is happening because absolutley nothing is synched up. And when I say nothing, I mean NOTHING. Drums. Bass. Guitar. Keyboard. Every single one of them is completely off from each other. And to make it even worse, it's EVERY song.
Yo, Yngwie - forget what a click track is? Next time USE ONE. I mean, c'mon, Malmsteen - were you and everyone else that had their hands on the matering of this album completely drunk when you slapped this "yet another forgettable Malmsteen album" together?
The absolutely butchered mastering of this album renders it 100% pure official crap.
Yngwie, time to hang it up, dude. This album jumps the shark in about 1,000 different ways. Time for the wheelchair.
I used to be a fan of this guy. That was back in the 80's before I passed puberty. Sorry, don't mean to offend the last 8 or 9 fans this guy has left, but truth is truth.
Production and Over Compression Affect the CD December 30, 2008
Yngwie is the undisputed King and master of his style of composition, music and guitar playing.
He does not change much and we respect him for it... He is his own man and we like knowing what to expect from him.
The only negative thing about this new album is a problem MANY new releases seem to suffer from.......
Over-compression, extreme limiting, digital pops and overloads and other Mastering problems that you hear on many new CDs because younger engineers are squashing the dynamics of the music to try and make the CD as loud as possible..... but in doing so, they squeeze the life out of the music and create all these harsh, edgy, abrasive tones on the new albums that make them hard to listen to.
The latest Metallica album was so bad in this regard that the digital overloads caused the CDs to stop playing on many people's CD players ---- that or they would keep hearing a POP and see the words CD ERROR or CD OVERLOAD on the LCD displays.
A Mastering and Mixing guy like Bob Katz could really make Yngwie's music shine like a work of art.
It would be nice to see Yngwie hook up with a guy like Bob Katz ..... it would be more like Chris Tsangarides who did nice engineering work for Yngwie's albums in the 90s too.
 Best Malmsteen album yet December 21, 2008
This is the best album from Yngwie Malmsteen. Tim Owens is one of my favorite singers. This album sort of reminds of Iron Mask.
 Good Guitars, yngwie blazers, expect better production December 17, 2008
Yngwie's guitars are good, i would prefer Jeff Soto or Michael Vescara on Vocals..Yngwie is magestic on the guitars. I would prefer the classic Yngwie melodies, and better vocalists of the past albums.The last 4 albums have average mixing and production. Older stuff had great production, all the polgyram/ polydor records.
its good but far from great December 5, 2008
Yngwie is a man amongst himself. His playing has set the bar at a level that has taken guitar playing to a whole new height since he first came out. Everyone has basically tried to be Yngwie. But here in lies the problem: Yngwie has become his own worst enemy. He has been copied so much, that his material itself has become boring. He has come out with great albums throughout his career but this is not one of them. By song #5 you get the point. He fails miserably at even slightly broadening his musical horizons. Yngwie is Yngwie and I dont expect him to reinvent himself every album. There are artists that are known for what they do and not going away from that. But when you stick to that vein, it better be done very well each time. It is great to hear Ripper Owens on the album but his vocals are too far back in the mix(afraid of sharring the attention Mr. Malmsteen??). I am a big Ynwie fan and he has greatly influenced my guitar playing and my taste in guitar playing. But his career has got to the point that he has proven what NOT to do: expand his horizons. It just ends up being the same old songs rehashed, the same scales, the same appregios, the same lyrics, the same production, etc, etc....Yngwie, we know you have the ability to reinvent the wheel. We dont expect you to do that, but please atleast make it BETTER!!!
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