I am very sorry to say that the big Y is no longer what he used to be.This album proved to be one of the scariest dreadful attempts of making metal I have even been forced to listen, and i did hear some horrible stuff in my days.
"The war to end All wars" was horrible enough for everyone, but now the big guy is back and worse.I am sorry to admit it, but Yngwie proved that, in a battle between talent and ego, the ego won, so beware!
Yngwie is no rookie, and he used to do real good music in his days, before the big belly and the even bigger assorted ego,with names like Joe Lynn Turner and Jeff Scott Soto on vocals, but it appears that ever since those golden days, he can no longer work with musicians with their own personality and has a preference for string puppets.
Therefore, the results are the one known- and maybe someone will do the right thing and shoot mr. Malmsteen putting the listeners out of their misery before they get permanent ear damage and turn to less painful things like Britney Spears.
doogie white is not a bad vocal, but in order for him to sound like something, he needs decent songs, and there is no such thing on this album. The choruses are dull and plain ridiculous, but at least he can sing, which under no circumstances can be said by Yngwie, who's soprano attempts could make one suspect that something happened to his balls.And as that could also explain the belly and the lack in quality of his latest works, it's probably safe to assume that this is in fact what happened.....