{"id":308,"date":"2010-09-27T19:29:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/09\/27\/yngwie-malmsteen-returns-with-killer-new-relentless-album\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:29:38","slug":"yngwie-malmsteen-returns-with-killer-new-relentless-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2010\/09\/27\/yngwie-malmsteen-returns-with-killer-new-relentless-album\/","title":{"rendered":"YNGWIE MALMSTEEN RETURNS WITH KILLER NEW &#8216;RELENTLESS&#8217; ALBUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ac\/Yngwie_barcelona.jpg\/220px-Yngwie_barcelona.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"141\" height=\"160\" \/>&#8220;<span id=\"lw_1285615090_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted;\">Shred guitar<\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;neo <span id=\"lw_1285615090_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">classical metal<\/span>&#8221; are two phrases that have been commonplace in the world of heavy metal for decades by this point, but both can be attributed to the unmistakable work by <span id=\"lw_1285615090_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted;\">Yngwie Malmsteen<\/span>. <br \/>Ever since the early 1980&#8217;s, Yngwie has been <span id=\"lw_1285615090_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">pushing the limits<\/span> of guitar, and influencing countless other players in the process. <br \/>And he continues to impress to this day, as evidenced by his forthcoming album, &#8216;Relentless,&#8217; the highly anticipated follow-up to 2008&#8217;s critically acclaimed &#8216;Perpetual Flame&#8217; (Yngwie&#8217;s first album for <span id=\"lw_1285615090_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted;\">Rising Force<\/span> Records).<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The album is the second to feature ex-Judas Priest and <span id=\"lw_1285615090_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Iced Earth<\/span> singer Tim &#8220;Ripper&#8221; Owens, and features over 60 minutes of incredibly complex, kick ass arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This title truly is the right one for this album, explains Yngwie. &#8220;I mean, after all these years, some kind of force is driving me to create something that totally surpasses everything I&#8217;ve done before. I tried to capture the raw energy of a live performance, yet push myself to the most demanding level of playing and composing to harness that elusive magic that can&#8217;t just be switched on. All the way out, <span id=\"lw_1285615090_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">caution to the wind<\/span>, but disciplined performances was what I went for. Maybe I did it too, check it out!&#8221; <br \/>Confirmed song titles for &#8216;Relentless&#8217; include &#8220;Relentless,&#8221; &#8220;Look At You Now,&#8221; &#8220;Shot Across the Bow,&#8221; &#8220;Adagio B Minor Variation,&#8221; &#8220;Caged Animal,&#8221; &#8220;Critical Mass,&#8221; &#8220;Into Valhalla,&#8221; &#8220;Enemy Within,&#8221; and &#8220;Caprici Di Inferno.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bursting onto the scene with such classic releases as 1984&#8217;s &#8216;Rising Force,&#8217; 1985&#8217;s &#8216;<span id=\"lw_1285615090_8\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted;\">Marching Out<\/span>,&#8217; and 1986&#8217;s &#8216;Trilogy,&#8217; Yngwie instantly made a name for himself, by recreating the spirit of celebrated composer\/musician <span id=\"lw_1285615090_9\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Niccol\u00f2 Paganini<\/span>, but within the realm of <span id=\"lw_1285615090_10\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: medium none;\">heavy metal guitar<\/span>. <br \/>Soon, countless other guitarists were copying Yngwie&#8217;s style&#8230;but there is simply only one Yngwie. Yngwie&#8217;s career continued to thrive throughout the world, including such additional triumphs as his totally classical work for orchestra and solo electric guitar, &#8216;Concerto Suite,&#8217; which proved once and for all that his classical credentials were genuine. <br \/>Yngwie continues to receive accolades worldwide, such as recently being selected as one Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Top Ten Greatest Electric Guitar Players&#8221; (amongst the stellar company of <span id=\"lw_1285615090_11\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Les Paul<\/span>, <span id=\"lw_1285615090_12\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Jimmy Page<\/span>, and <span id=\"lw_1285615090_13\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted;\">Jimi Hendrix<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>A respected musician among both his peers and his fans, Yngwie continues to play and compose at a level of mastery that many career musicians only dream of. <br \/>&#8216;Relentless&#8217; is a must-have, which will appeal to all Yngwie fans and <span id=\"lw_1285615090_14\" class=\"yshortcuts\">rock music fans<\/span> alike. <br \/>Prepare yourself for a &#8216;Relentless&#8217; <span id=\"lw_1285615090_15\" class=\"yshortcuts\">classical metal attack<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yngwiemalmsteen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"lw_1285615090_16\" class=\"yshortcuts\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.yngwiemalmsteen.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/yngwiemalmsteen\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"lw_1285615090_17\" class=\"yshortcuts\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/yngwiemalmsteen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Chipster Pr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shred guitar&#8221; and &#8220;neo classical metal&#8221; are two phrases that have been commonplace in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}