War To End All Wars
Yngwie Malmsteen
- Style
- Low-cost Malmsteen (Metal)
- Label
- Dreamcatcher Records
- Year
- 2000
- Reviewed by
- Chris
/ 100
Killing songs: The sun's reflection on the CD while spinning in the air.
By the time you're reading this the CD must be flying over Australia... although
I doubt it made it's way there, cause there's probably another angry metal fan who recognized it and
shooted it down by now... if its not the case well, people might see a small
Unidentified Flying Object throughout Australia... no need to panic, it's just
the last Malmsteen that flew over my window.
Let's be realistic, this is not a good album !!! Although he says the fucked
up production has been done on purpose I don't really think so. Anyway it's
unacceptable to have such a mess mix and worst being to publish it... now I'm
asking myself if it wasn't just for money this time !!!! Malmsteen was getting
better in my own appreciation with the last release but even more with Facing
The Animal which was a jewel ! Normal it got kicked out and shooted down in
reviews, cause there Malmsteen was playing at normal pace and made only a few
guitar demonstrations... but hell the album rocked and was emotion packed. Here
it's shit-packed, melodies heard 10000 times on too many bucks spend on the
same CDs over and over again... I don't even know why the fuck I keep these
!!!
Yngwie can play fast and technical... no doubts there, but doing something
original and enjoyable, that it seems, is something he never learned to do since
his first albums. I don't understand how fans can still buy and love this kind
of music, don't you guys care about having 20 same CDs ??? Cause there's so
little difference between everyone of them. So I fail to get the point here
!!
Anyway, this one is only a freesbie as far as I'm concerned. There's good emotion
in the song Miracle Of Life (that's why the CD doesn't get a 0 it almost deserves)
and that's because he probably wrote it for his wife, but it's not enough to
save the day. The Wizard is also almost cool... but again we've heard both melodies,
riffs and chorus on other songs... so please stop insulting your fans ! Molto
Appregiosa is another guitar demonstration and a good one, but again, nothing
new and you can write instrumental CD if it is you want to prove the world you
can play guitar... we want songs here, at least when we review bands CDs...
but there is no such thing as a band when it writes Malmsteen on the CD. The
worst is that I see all over the world that the CD is accepted with arms open...
and I don't get it... probably like Gates and Windows, it's got to be the marketing. I know I'm very hard here but it's the guy at least 20th CD... and that's an important fact to take care of when quoting an album I think. If it was his first CD's he would probably have been quoted around 40.
The last reggae song is a joke, and the one that really annihilated my last
doubts about throwing the CD out the window.
Red alert, all crew abandon ship !!!