Yngwie Johan Malmsteen

Raised in a musical family, Yngwie Malmsteen decided to learn to play guitar 18 September 1970, date of death of Jimi Hendrix. The posthumous tribute aired that day on television is a revelation: the young Yngwie, then aged seven, thinks guitar hero ... Malmsteen begins to play on an acoustic guitar, donated by his mother, and acquires its first guitar two years later. His second musical will shock the discovery of the Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini in the mid-1970 that will profoundly affect his game if the attitude of Hendrix on stage was his first influence is the style of violin virtuoso that will mark its technical approach. It will seek to make his guitar sound like the violin's "devil" in Italy. Later he discovered Bach and Vivaldi.

Leaving school at age fifteen, he worked as a repairer of guitars in a music store in Stockholm. It was then that he began to develop the idea of ​​playing on the sleeves scallops, a process dating from the seventeenth century, it will reproduce a few years later, on his signature Fender Stratocaster.

As a teenager, Yngwie Malmsteen creates many local groups with which it occurs in Sweden, without meeting the expected success. Some of these projects will be presented to the public many years later, in an album titled Inspiration (released in 1996), album in which one finds, among other things, some of his first demo, dating from 1978 to 1982.

It's the American producer Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records (California) who discovers Yngwie Malmsteen and asked him to come to the United States to join the band Steeler and record an album for his label. It is then that the group Alcatrazz Malmsteen joined to record two albums, No word from Live Rock'n'Roll Award and before launching a solo career.
The Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster.

In 1984, Yngwie Malmsteen abandons all plans to found his own group, Rising Force, Yngwie J. became The Malmsteen's Rising Force Yngwie Malmsteen and simply. One group that was inspired Deep Purple.

He takes out his first album, Rising Force, known for his guitar out of the flames and held a sort of "Lady of the Underworld" (referring probably to the Arthurian myth of Excalibur and the Lady of the Lake). This disc is a turning point in terms of instrumental virtuosity. Most critics accuse him of having accelerated the tapes. All while waiting for his first concert to see whether he can play at that speed with his guitar. The concert happened, Yngwie plays at its natural rate, the critics praise it has become a guitar hero. From a musical point of view, this album is considered by many as an essential references of neoclassical metal. Rising Force will influence a whole generation of virtuosos (Jason Becker, Michael Romeo, Luca Turilli, Timo Tolkki, Stephan Forté, Vinnie Moore, Patrick Rondat etc ...) and the European metal scene power / melodic speed.

His solo career began as and continues for twenty-five years in which he made twenty albums, seeking some nine singers (including her), twelve drummers, bassists thirteen (him included) and five keyboard players. His recording career is quite varied, strongly neoclassical in the 1980s, Malmsteen has gone through different periods. It will increase even if the musical spectrum will keep his foot classico-modern immediately identifiable. More FM or progressive in the early 1990s, he returned over the past ten years to a more metal style. Similarly his albums often have different colors: neoclassical instrumentals (Blackstar, Trilogy Suite Opus 5, Icarus Dream Opus 4), poignant ballads (Save our love, Dreaming tell me), the very melodic and catchy titles (Heaven tonight, Queen in love, The only one), hard-blues songs (Bedroom Eyes, Freedom Is not Free) speed songs (Rising force, Never die), titles doom (Devil in disguise, Pyramid of Cheops), etc.. In 1997 he left the hard rock record time, with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, a few highly personal compositions inspired by the music of Vivaldi. The result, a mixture of classical and electric guitar solo, released the following year under the title Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar & Orchestra In Eb Minor, Opus I: a first in the world of rock and electric guitar.
Malmsteen in Barcelona in 2005

In February 2008, the singer Doogie White is replaced in favor of Tim "Ripper" Owens, former lead singer of Judas Priest and Iced Earth, he became the ninth singer Yngwie solo. Their collaboration is a reality of Perpetual Flame and the tour. With the arrival of this ultimate howler, Yngwie released the album as heavy-speed in his discography.

Perpetual Flame is the first album released under the label "Rising Force Records" qu'Yngwie created in late 2008 and that should allow him to have his artistic independence. After a laborious legal process [ref. needed], he was able to obtain the rights to all his albums except the first five. It is therefore expected in the future editions of his old albums remastered and re-recorded (as War to end all wars, perhaps), the outputs of lives, etc.. In March 2009 released the compilation Angels Of Love, which is a curiosity in his discography: Malmsteen, in a style much more than usual stripped, re-recorded instrumental and acoustic versions of some of his old ballads. The result is surprising and has been well received by fans who saw it as a welcome alternative to the intense Perpetual Flame. In October 2009 release of "Live in Korea", a DVD filmed by a TV in the Korean War Tour To End All Wars. If the object to its contents please, fans ranting for the poor quality of the video used. A compilation, High Impact, was released in December 2009 with previously unreleased Michael Jackson, Beat It, recorded after the death of the singer. In April 2010, Yngwie represses the scenes is taking place in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Raw Live released in 2010, a DVD is taken from TV and bootlegs and Relentless, a new album.

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