YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN — Rising Force (review)

YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN — Rising Force album cover Album · 1984 · Neoclassical metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
1967/ 1976
I love this album and probably without this album I wouldn't love him like I love Heavy Metal. But this album isn't a perfect album. For my taste this is an album that has aged well because it's great! In a sense this album without many metal guitarists would never be born. I like to compare this album with Chris Moneymaker represent for the poker! Because without Malmsteen Heavy Metal existed the same (and this also applies to Moneymaker and Poker), but it was not what we now know (at least for the symphonic and prog metal).

This album present great music, not comparable with Steeler and Alcatrazz, Yngwie previous bands. Because "Yngwie's Malmsteen's Rising Force" is only the "9th Symphony" of Rock! (and, for sure, the atmospheres are the same!!!) Malmsteen isn't new Hendrix or Blackmore but another type of axeman, a sort of Paganini, Beethoven or Mozart of Rock. Without boubts!!!

If you listen to in attentive mode "Far Beyond The Sun" you listen another song with Spring athmospheres... As if we were out of the mist of a heath and we were entering a beautiful English-style garden with a water and weeping willows! In the background a guitar player with a woman... The flight of ducks... The chirping of songbirds... A poet who declines verses... Farmers returning from the fields... Children chase each other... But "Evil Eye" is the Winter... A snowstorm... Treacherous mountains... Men on a mission... Dragons and wizards ready to kill men on the mission... An oppressed people... A knight who will kill all the dragons and wizards... A princess who awaits the return of Knight... Provided that Icarus can fly... Always the good Leonardo Da Vinci can give us flying... Provided that the seasons follow one another... Provided that two lovers defeat the darkness.

In truth this album for me is great not only for the music but also for the presence of Barriemore Barlow and Jens Johansson. Not for the presence of J.S. Soto, a singer that not please me. The music is a Renaissance version of Purple and Rainbow with Beethoven and Mozart in first plan and with insertions of Wagner in a pure Rock carpet. The guitar speaks, shouts, whispers as only a poem of Leopardi or Ungaretti can do. I know a goose that flies... Migrating from the north to Adriatic lagoons. Following a route not writing, not taught but that I know... That was kidnapped me.

Because write the history is not easy. Building is a natural thing. Because the Impressionistic Heavy Metal of Yngwie Malmsteen will be taught at school. And all will know "Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force!
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