Fire and Ice

Artist: Yngwie Malmsteen
Label: Wea International
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075596113724
EAN: 0075596113724
ASIN: B0000071UJ

Release Date: 1995-03-14

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Tracks:

Perpatual
Dragonfly
Teaser
How Many Miles To Babylon
Cry No More
No Mercy
C'est La Vie
Leviathan
Fire And Ice
Forever Is A Long Time
I'm My Own Enemy
All I Want Is Everything
Golden Dawn
Final Curtain

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Customer Reviews:

Yngwie star was still bright.......2007-01-25

Yngwie is a living legend of the guitar. I really admire him and I love to hear him playing when he is focused and concentrated. This album from 1992 is probably one of the last if not the very last very good album from him. After this one came only confused albums with some good moments here and there, but this one is his last big production effort. One of the last where he was able to put in his best. Sure this album is not Rising force or Marching out and neither Trilogy, in my opinion his best albums overall (together with Live in Leningrad probably). But Fire and Ice is a consistent album throughout with some very well written music and some very good guitar work from Yngwie in it. The only tune that I really can't stand is Teaser, too much AOR for Yngwie and completly out of place here. By the way Teaser doesn't mix at all with the rest of the material comprehended in Fire and Ice. It was probably put here for Elektra's will. Probably they told Yngwie, "man, we need to have a possible single to extract from the album" and so he did write Teaser. It was a video too if I remember well. But it is a poor song for real! The rest of the material instead have Yngwie at his best, not too much in the guitar hero role. He balanced more his parts and solos leaving more space to the compositions. But when he plays he plays very focused. The band is strong, Mark Boals voice very good for the material. The orchestration take this album in the Medieval atmospheres sometimes but it is something that you can expect from Yngwie. I return to this album from time to time, you can consider this one for sure, after the three or four Yngwie's albums I told you before (start with Live in Leningrad or Rising Force).

Hey, we all have our bad days.......2006-08-15

Malmsteen dropped the ball big time here. Having assembled a quality band for Eclipse he kept basically the same guys that cut that album with him. Everything should of been ready, he was signed to a major, had a worn in band of quality players and could still get himself on the cover of mags like Guitar World etc.

Alas this album starts off with an instrumental. I'm all for not sticking to prevailing formulas but what were they thinking? Luckily it's not a bad track. Things pick up with Dragonfly and Teaser which are more normal rockers. Then we get to the crux of the problem - the mid section of the album.

I dunno, I was such a one eyed yngwie devotee for so long it still hurts to have to say this - but much of this critically reviled album does indeed suck. Dragged out tunes with production that feels too 'soft' somehow and way too much emphasis on the keyboards. Some fans hated the string sections on this album but I never felt that was such a problem. For me, many of these tunes work in isolation such as No Mercy and Fire and Ice but put in seccession the whole just doesn't gel into a good album.

There are some tiny spots of glory for those willing to dig - the slower structures of some of the tracks is something a little new for Yngwie and follows on from slower tunes from Eclipse, the band is quality (Goran Edman has been so great on so many albums) and this album has that rarest of beasts - a Malsteen ballad that works in the form of I'm My Own Enemy, the lyrics of which were written by Goran in relation to his marriage breakdown. And the little instrumental Golden Dawn seques into Final Curtain which is a way cool rocker replete with thunder and rain sound affects.

Only for dedicated fans - of which I am one - but my love of the guys music must take 2nd place to my deisre to write honest and genuine reviews. This disc is a clunker.

In my humble opinion.......2006-06-15

This is the album that introduced me to Yngwie, so it ranks very high on my list. I've went back and forth and listened to his other releases, but non of them impressed me as much as Eclipse and Fire & Ice. I think these two are the highlight of his career, apart from Rising Force.

The common thread is Goran Edman, a vocalist with tremendous range, melody, and just simply enjoyable to listen to. Yngwie's albums, not known for their lyrical quality, made a step in a positive direction with Edman. Some reviewers mentioned Europe and John Norum. That's a keen observation given that Edman's first work with John Norum (ex-Europe guitarist) was on Total Control, 1987.

The nice thing about this album is that it covers a wide spectrum of genres. It might seem to some as unfocused metal, but to me it was refreshing to listen to different tempos and inflections, while still maintaining the powerhouse guitar in the driver seat and not overshadowing the song with endless solos. The vocals are an added improvement and the lyrical quality made a significant step forward.

I definitely recommend this, along with Eclipse, as an example of Malmsteen at the height of his career.

Label switch leads to poor album.......2006-03-26

I'm a big malmsteen fan, but I think it's obvious that this album was a big bump in the road for his career. At a time when kids were rebelling against the genre of metal, this album comes out with a hair band sound that is more prominent than the last 2 albums (and that's saying something). It is very "produced and polished" sounding, meaning that there are keyboard instruments from wall to wall, often overshadowing the guitar. Yes there are the guitar solos, but it seems like someone was trying to restrict malmsteen's technique into only his "spotlight moment" while the rest of the song just sounds like bad hair metal. This album was a sad day for heavy metal and neoclassical guitar, unlike all the malmsteen albums before and most of the ones after, which are five star neo classical extraviganzas. Get those other ones instead

An Improvement........2005-12-23

Elektra had picked up where Polydor left off. This album, despite the band for it's weakness, was resurrected by the amazing recording production from Elektra. The two tracks "Perpetual" & "Leviathan" are honorable mentions with a hint of "Yngwie Classic" and the rest is more medieval inspired but somehow still not "metal" enough. You'll have to find a more mellowing mood (which seldoms in metal music) to entice the whole album. "Fire & Ice" is a bit too long of an album and much commercialized under the label's terms, fortunately that was a short stint. The overall album does sound better than the last two (Odyssey & Eclipse from Polydor) due to the excellent production from Elektra and longtime Yngwie engineers/mixer Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, they have never sounded better since Yngwie's departure from Polydor.

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