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Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen discussed his ideas for the sequel to his most recent album, “Parabellum,” which was released in July 2021 via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group, in a recent interview with Jimmy Kay of Canada’s The Metal Voice, as per Blabbermouth.
It’s done. It’s in the can.
When asked if the next album is entirely instrumental, Yngwie responded as follows.
No. No. No. It’s four songs I sing on it. I’m really happy with it. [it’s gonna get] a November release.
Malmsteen made this statement on his new album’s musical direction.
I would say it’s very Malmsteen-esque. It sounds like Yngwie Malmsteen… You will definitely hear the similarities. I would say some of the instrumental stuff is really, really nuts. But there’s some cool metal — I’d say, like, not metal, but whatever you wanna call it now.
Yngwie responded by elaborating on what fans might anticipate from his upcoming album.
The album’s called ‘Hell Or High Water’. And I made it specifically to fit on the vinyl record. Nine [songs], [with] one bonus track, but it’s 46 minutes [long]… I deliberately [made it] like that. I had a lot more ideas, a lot more songs, but I made it so it’s exactly that.
Malmsteen continued by saying that he created “Hell Or High Water” especially to be heard as a whole rather than as a compilation of individual songs.
This album I just made now — most of my albums, I would say — you couldn’t just take one song and it’d be representative of the record, they all complement each other. They all have their own thing. ‘Oh, that’s what the album sounds like.’ No, because the next song doesn’t sound like that. You have to hear it as an album. It’s made as an album, like a movie. ‘Oh, yeah, look at that scene. Yeah, three minutes.’ No, that’s not enough. You have to see the whole movie. You read the whole book. And I made it that the sequence of the songs and everything, they’re following —I think about tempos and key signatures and stuff like this. And I’m really happy with it.
It doesn’t look like it’s a concept album, though.
No, I wouldn’t call it that. I mean, if you wanted to, you could analyze it any way you like. You can go, ‘Yeah, it’s a concept album,’ but it’s not meant to be. But it could be, I guess.
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