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Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (English pronunciation: /ˈɪŋveɪ ˈmɑːlmstiːn/ ING-vay MAHLM-steen; born June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Malmsteen became famous and very influential for his neo-classic approach in heavy metal music, and is often seen as one of the greatest electric guitarists of all time.

Malmsteen was born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck in Stockholm, Sweden, as the third child of a musically-inclined family. At age seven, he saw a television news report on the death of Jimi Hendrix, an event which had a profound impact on his musical path. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the thumb-sucking, molly-coddled plebeian Yngwie died, and was replaced by a Dionysian, guitar-shredding god". At the age of 10 he took his mother's maiden name Malmsten as his surname, slightly changed it to Malmsteen, and Anglicised his given name Yngve to "Yngwie". Yngwie also created his first band "Track On Earth" at the age of 10, consisting of himself and a friend from school on drums (Armin). Malmsteen was a teenager when he first encountered the music of the 19th century violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical music influence.


Malmsteen is known for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions, often incorporating high speed picking with harmonic minor scales, diminished scales and sweep picked arpeggios. He is often considered one of the most talented rock guitarists of all time and is considered to be a pioneer of shred guitar.

Also, Malmsteen favors the harmonic minor scale, and often uses diminished arpeggios and phrygian scales and draws an influence from Bach and Beethoven. In an interview, Malmsteen confessed that his regular use of harmonic minor was because in the 1980s he was trying to move away from the blues-based pentatonic scales that were frequently used at the time.





CURRENT LINE UP
Yngwie Malmsteen – guitars, vocals
Ralph Ciavolino – bass, vocals
Mark Ellis – drums, percussion
Nick Marino – keyboards, vocals



TRACKLIST:
DISC 1
1. Rising Force
2. Spellbound
3. Demon Driver
4. Repent
5. Overture
6. From a Thousand Cuts
7. Arpeggios from Hell
8. Crown of Thorns
9. Badiniere
10. Concerto #4
11. Adagio
12. Far Beyond the Sun
13. Acoustic Paraphase
14. Dreaming [Tell Me]
15. Gates of Babylon
16. Into Valhalla



DISC 2
1. Rise Up
2. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
3. Red Devil
4. Cadenza #1
5. Trilogy Suite
6. Krakatoa
7. Cadenza #2
8. Blue
9. Fugue
10. Cadenza #3 / Finale
11. Heaven Tonight
12. Acoustic Cadenza
13. Black Star
14. I'll See the Light Tonight




Genre: Power
Subgenre: Neo Classical
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 227.32 MB
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