Rising Force

Artist: Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 042282532442
EAN: 0042282532442
ASIN: B000001FDR

Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

Black Star
Far Beyond the Sun
Now Your Ships Are Burned
Evil Eye
Icarus Dream Suite
As Above, So Below
Little Savage
Farewell

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Customer Reviews:

This set a standard.......2007-03-17

There was not a guitar player on the face of the GLOBE that didn't sit up and take notice when this was released 20 years ago . No other guitar player is this fast and this clean . His use of baroque chord structures had never been done before . If you think you are a good guitar player , try this . The only weak spot is the pedestrian ( even by heavy metal standards ) lyrics . This is a landmark release .

OK, but not Malmsteen's best shredding.......2007-02-12

I would consider myself a casual fan of Yngwie, and guitar shredders rarely make it into my CD collection at all. Rising Force contains some quality playing and interesting song structures, but I feel that it is artistically dated at this point. Yngwie became a much better player in later years, and seeing him in the G3 DVD was mind-blowing. Going from that to Rising Force made it easy to see his improvement. The album is a classic for guitarists, but the guitar work is clearly not up to par with Malmsteen's more recent material (which is really a good thing when you think about it). Also, the production seems rather mediocre and muffled, making the potentially exciting songs sound dead. Basically, if you're a big Yngwie fan, you'll want it, but if you just want to hear some amazing playing, go for his stuff at G3 instead.

The one that blew down the doors for neoclassical metal!.......2007-01-30

If you're a guitar nut, you should own this, PERIOD. It's the album that opened the door for a flood of characters like Vinnie Moore, Jason Becker, and a host of others.

Nonetheless, I'd like to point out a difference between a "door opener" and an "influence." Many reviews here credit Yngwie as a major influence on guys like Satch, Vai, Gilbert, V. Moore, Macalpine, Petrucci, Becker, Friedman, etc... and from that list, I can give you relative youngsters like Becker and Friedman, but c'mon folks: everybody else on that list had already been honing their chops for years: their influences were the same as Yngwie's: Paganini, Mozart, Bach, etc... what Yngwie did for them is OPEN THE DOOR, and in some cases like Vai and Satch, their sound is more reminiscent of Van Halen than anything else, anyway: I'm not really certain YJM had much influence on them at all.

So... yes: this is the apotheosis of neo-classical shred guitar. Not only should you own it for posterity's sake, but also because "Black Star", "Far Beyond the Sun", and "Icarus Dream Suite op. 4" are all right up there with any neo-classical recordings ever made: at least one of them should be on your regular guitar-oriented playlist from here on out.

One of the very few original masters.......2007-01-13

It was 1984. Me and my friends were very into metal bands from USA at the time. We were following the glam bands mainly but we used to love bands like Metallica and Anthrax too. Those were the hair metal days! One of my friends one day told me "I heard an album from a great swedish rock guitarist is coming out and it will be ALL guitar solos". I perfectly remember that I said "what a bore this album should be, ALL guitar solos?!" Then Rising force came out and it was a shock. Because the very first time I put it on the intensity of the music, Yngwie's completly innovative musical personality and blazing virtuosity, his impressive musicality (that was something absolutly new and unique!) completly blew me away. At the time Yngwie exploded onto the scene and he became a huge star overnight. In those days Van Halen was the guy everyone tried to emulate in the rock context but Yngwie showed a completly different way of playing the guitar being as good as Eddie. He showed there was a way to sound different from Van Halen being at the same level! It was sensational! His classic minor runs, his classical music quotes, played with sincerity and attitude, his unbelievable blues-Hendrix chops, the epic flavour of his music made him unique and totally devastating! He was recognizable from the very first note (and still he is of course). One of the most difficult and important things for a musician! I can't forget that I completly fell in love with Yngwie, he seemed to me the most virtuosistic player ever! And I really loved his music! I listened to this album over and over, I did buy the VHS of his concert in Japan (if I remember well it was a japanese concert) and I played it a million times. It was amazing to see this guy from the old and dusty Europe coming out with something so fantastic, so fresh, so unique, with an attitude SO BAD and so proud of his european roots! An european who was able to be a serious pretender to the world's best guitarist crown! Wow! And this album was only the first! I thought "wow if this is only his first album what will he do in the future!?". And luckly Yngwie produced a lot of very good album in the years that followed, but not legendary as this one. This one to me is legendary as "Van Halen 1". It is completly different of course but it is equally beautiful and it is together with it, one of the most important guitar album of all time. ABSOLUTLY! No doubt about it. After this one Yngwie has been copied thousands of times by thousands of players all over the world. Now his music may sound repetitive, maybe he is out of ideas, but I don't forget that he is one of the most fantastic musicians this our instrument, the guitar, had the privilege to have in its team. With this album a force was really rising, it was Yngwie! Thank you for the inspiration Yngwie J. Malmsteen!

A PROG ROCK/METAL GEM!.......2007-01-09

This album is an absolute gem in the genre of prog metal. Virtuoso guitar throughout and excellent playing by all members of the band. Touches of classical music interspersed with rock make this a highly recommended prog rock album. I wish that it were all instrumental though. But there are only two vocal cuts on the whole C.D.

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Mixed Cargo ~ Tom Lewis

Power to the People ~ Poison

Easyriders, Vol. 1 [Explicit Cover] ~ Various Artists

T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues ~ T.S.O.L.

Postmodern Platos ~ Tom Ze

Master Frequency and His Deepness ~ Tim Harrington

Nicole McKenna ~ Nicole McKenna

Kiss My Axe

Platoon Leader: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ~ George S. Clinton

Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty, Pt. 1 ~ The Orb