Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire And Ice (1992) (Japanese WMC5-480)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire And Ice (1992)
Year & Label: 1992, Electra Entertainment/WEA Music, Japan | CD#: WMC5-480
Flac (image) | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Artwork (JPG, 300 dpi) | File-hosts: FilePost
Neoclassical Power Metal/Shred | FLAC: 530 MB | Artwork: 40 MB | MP3: 170 MB | 5% WinRAR Recovery
EAC Secure-rip with LOG+CUE+COVERS | Source: eMule
Year & Label: 1992, Electra Entertainment/WEA Music, Japan | CD#: WMC5-480
Flac (image) | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Artwork (JPG, 300 dpi) | File-hosts: FilePost
Neoclassical Power Metal/Shred | FLAC: 530 MB | Artwork: 40 MB | MP3: 170 MB | 5% WinRAR Recovery
EAC Secure-rip with LOG+CUE+COVERS | Source: eMule
Fire and Ice came at a critical time in Malmsteen's career and the world of metal as a whole. As many have pointed out, grunge had just come into play and metal bands were either folding or defecting and breaking ranks in droves, and Yngwie had just done the album Eclipse, which was a stain on his career after the 4 rising force albums. So he either had to make a good album, and define the next decade of his career, or he would burn out and jump on the wagon of the has-beens.Yngwie J. Malmsteen Official Homepage
Obviously, it worked, because the early-mid nineties were a great time for Malmsteen, and he released scorcher after scorcher. However, this album, in itself, is not that memorable. Sure, the songs are all catchy. Sure, the guitar playing is spot on. However, as I said, this album is good to a point. That point is Goran Edman, who technically doesn't fail as a singer, since he does hit the notes, fails as a successor to Joe Lynn Turner. His voice is thin and voiceless, losing power as he hits the higher notes, sounding like a teenager just getting into his new manlier voice. Thank the metal gods that Yngwie booted Edman and replaced him with Michael Vescera. The singing isn't bad, as I was led to believe, it just adds nothing to the album, and strikes the listener as extraneous and unnecessary. However, on songs like Fire and Ice, where he avoids the higher range where he loses power, and Leviathan, where he doesn't sing at all, the album works. From this, it can be deduced that Goran detracts from the overall listenability of the album.
However, the drums are good, shining in the aforementioned songs, being wonderfully technical but not stealing the spotlight from the almighty Yngwie. The bass, as always, is inaudible most of the time, but that it doesn't detract from the fun of Fire and Ice. The songwriting is a preview of what's to come, namely catchy, melodic, and aggressive power metal/shred, with blistering guitar solos and plenty of neoclassical influence, as well as influences from hard rock and blues rock. It expands slightly upon Yngwie's repertoire, as well as rectifying the mess that was Eclipse. So yes, it succeeds as an album. Get it if you like Malmsteen, chances are it won't change your opinion.
~ www.metal-archives.com
Yngwie J. Malmsteen At Wikipedia
Yngwie J. Malmsteen At Metal Archives
Musicians:
Vocals : Göran Edman
Guitars : Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Bass : Suante Henryson
Keyboards : Mats Olausson
Drums : Bo Werner
Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami and Polar Studios, Stockholm
Engineered and recorded by Simon Hanhart, assisted by Keith Rose
Mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbleroat at Electric Lady Studios, New York
Mastered by George Marino it Sterling Sound, New York
Track List:
01. Perpetual [4:14]
02. Dragonfly [4:49]
03. Teaser [3:30]
04. How Many Miles To Babylon [6:11]
05. Cry No More [5:18]
06. No Mercy [5:33]
07. C'est La Vie [5:20]
08. Leviathan [4:25]
09. Fire And Ice [4:31]
10. Foever Is A Long Time [4:28]
11. I'm My Own Enemy [6:10]
12. All I Want Is Everything [4:02]
13. Golden Dawn [1:29]
14. Final Curtain [4:47]
15. Broken Glass (Bonus Track) [4:03]
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
EAC extraction logfile from 13. March 2012, 1:02
Yngwie Malmsteen / Fire And Ice
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EAC extraction logfile from 13. March 2012, 1:02
Yngwie Malmsteen / Fire And Ice
Used drive : ATAPI iHAS624 B Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 40 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -6 -V %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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4 | 12:33.02 | 6:10.73 | 56477 | 84299
5 | 18:44.00 | 5:17.50 | 84300 | 108124
6 | 24:01.50 | 5:32.40 | 108125 | 133064
7 | 29:34.15 | 5:19.57 | 133065 | 157046
8 | 34:53.72 | 4:24.50 | 157047 | 176896
9 | 39:18.47 | 4:31.05 | 176897 | 197226
10 | 43:49.52 | 4:28.05 | 197227 | 217331
11 | 48:17.57 | 6:09.53 | 217332 | 245059
12 | 54:27.35 | 4:02.25 | 245060 | 263234
13 | 58:29.60 | 1:28.67 | 263235 | 269901
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Copy CRC 0290B790
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