{"id":1819,"date":"2011-03-18T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:00:09","slug":"yngwie-malmsteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/yngwie-malmsteen\/","title":{"rendered":"YNGWIE MALMSTEEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/YNGWIE-MALMSTEEN-M-Review-December2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1820\" title=\"YNGWIE-MALMSTEEN-M-Review-December2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/YNGWIE-MALMSTEEN-M-Review-December2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/YNGWIE-MALMSTEEN-M-Review-December2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/YNGWIE-MALMSTEEN-M-Review-December2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Y<\/strong><strong>NGWIE MALMSTEEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Relentless<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rising Force]<\/p>\n<p>If guitarists were paid by the note, Yngwie Malmsteen would be a gazillionaire. For 30 years the Swedish six-stringer has shredded with a scorched-earth vengeance, delivering flying-fingered arpeggios and whammy bar acrobatics that at times defy credulity. By that measure, his latest album ranks among his best. Framed by pile-driving percussion, medieval choral flourishes and portentous lyrical themes, Malmsteen delivers his razzle-dazzle riffs with textbook virtuosity. Sporting song titles that sound like Spinal Tap-inspired howlers (\u201cInto Valhalla,\u201d \u201cArpeggios from Hell\u201d), the disc nonetheless earns its badge of metal-drama pretense. Key is former Judas Priest frontman Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens, whose vocals grace roughly half the songs and who may be the only singer around who can stand toe to toe with Malmsteen\u2019s six-string maelstroms. Some dismiss Malmsteen\u2019s pedal-to-metal pyrotechnics as soulless and sterile, but he continues to find new permutations within the narrowest of stylistic parameters. Call him the Chuck Berry of neo-classical metal. \u2013RH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Relentless [Rising Force] If guitarists were paid by the note, Yngwie Malmsteen would be a gazillionaire. For 30 years the Swedish six-stringer has shredded with a scorched-earth vengeance, delivering flying-fingered arpeggios and whammy bar acrobatics that at times defy credulity. By that measure, his latest album ranks among his best. Framed by pile-driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1334,1348,1349,1347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}