Marching Out

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Customer reviews

review by: Edric_the_Destroyer date: 2009-02-04 rating:
Indespensible Yngwie
Am re-posting this here as the original Import only disc in no longer available. br / br /If you like Yngwie Malmsteen then his first two albums are compulsory listening, Rising Force Marching Out are the albums that set the standard for everybody else. 20 years on and I still can't pick out favourites as each track keeps throwing up some new nuance when you listen to it. Its the stuff that dreams are made of ... if you like Yngwie that is. br / br /Also highly recommended is Yngwie's Concerto for Electric Guitar which would receive a 6 star review if such a thing could be. br / br /p.s. the albums are not misleading this really is how it sounds live. Yngwie is fast!

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review by: alzmail date: 2008-10-26 rating:
2nd Stunning Release
Okay this is Yngwie's 2nd release and one of his better ones. I do believe myself that Randy Rhodes started off the neo-classical revoloution and Yngwie carried on the torch after Randy's untimely death. And boy did he carry it on. His first album didn't have alot of vocals and was more look at me,look how amazing i am. This is more song orientated,the production is alot more fuzzier than the first album but it doesn't sound that bad. Jeff Scott Soto returned to do the vocals again(and that's a rariety for any malmsteen album 2 albums with 1 singer). It's a great album and shows Yngwie can write some good tunes as well as shred too. It starts off with 'i'll see the light tonight' which is pretty fast for yngwie and he still plays this alot,it's a good song catchy,Jeff doing some great vocals to accompany the guitar work and the middle section is awesome. I think this is really one of Yngwie's best albums solo wise,there's alot of classical guitar moments and his guitar solo's breathe alot more and have more variety than his later work. They have alot more melody and technique and seem alot fresher on the first 3 albums. There are a couple of instrumentals on this album that really are beautifull to listen to the last track 'Marching Out' is simply stunning. Alot of people say Yngwie is just a robot churning out a million note per second but his first 3 or 4 albums have alot more emotion and really go to some amazing places. He said his style is of a violin transposed to guitar,and this is one of his better offers,as it's old i expect you can pick it up quite cheap nowdays and if you are just checking out Malmsten for the 1st time the first 3 albums i think are the best. Tis is gearing up for his 3rd record which is outstanding,but this is a great cd and you can see why he kicked up a storm,there are the usual early viking references and the fantasyesque dungeons and dragons style lyrics but if you can get past that is definately on of his best albums and shows him to be a truly amazing guitarist.

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review by: date: 2007-03-15 rating:
Marching To Glory
I'd heard of YJM through Guitar Player magazine - Mike Varney had a column in it, and he also owned a record label called Shrapnel. Yng had recorded some solo's on Steeler's debut album, but coming via Alcatrazz and Graham Bonnet, Rising Force was very much Malmsteen's own brainchild. Having now raised his profile with his unique playing style, he was now playing and recording with his boyhood chums Marcel Jacob and the Johansson brothers. The first CD "Rising Force" was mainly an instrumental affair, but "Marching Out" brought a new star to light - namely vocalist Jeff Scott Soto. "I'll see the light tonight" was a storming concert opener - usual quick Malmsteen riff and towering vocal, with a guitar/keyboard unison in the middle. Still played in the live set today, it remains as Yngwie's "Burn" - for want of a better comparison. This album was still very much Yngwie's old tried and tested stuff he wrote in Sweden as a kid. If you have access to Yngwie's demo tape, you'll find "Soldier without Faith" and instrumental bits like "Anguish and fear" on it. Despite all the labels of "can play, can't write songs" that dogged Malmsteen through his career, the intro to "Don't let it end" is beautiful and delivered by Soto in a sublime fashion. All bar the title track "Marching Out" - the only instrumental on the album - got a airing on the 1985 tour, and Rising Force were awesome with their live show. They were still very much a small draw, and played The Marquee Club in London's soho. I went with my mate Phil Hilborne (himself soon to be a guitarist of note) and we were stunned into jaw-drop slience. I'm a Viking, Disciples of Hell and Anguish and Fear all have Malmsteen classical overtones. His use of Harmonic minor and Phrygian mode scales is well documented elsewhere. Of course, there would be the inevitable parting of the ways with his band, which gives fuel to the "difficult" tag that Yng has. New singer Marc Boales would last one album, Joe Lynn Turner would come and go and bass players would be a revolving door. But this album still stands as an astonishing testament to what Yngwie J. Malmsteen could do with a guitar - and it was different to other players out there. Neo-classical bods like Tony McAlpine would follow, but YJM was first. There would be scandal - car crashes, the women, fights with just about everyone, cancelled gigs, drinking and ending up recently as a bloated parody of his waif-like 20's stature - but he's still out there playing, and can still shread with the best. Tremendous. br /

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review by: the chocolate labrador date: 2006-12-22 rating:
His best album to date !
This is Yngwie at his very best (his second Rising Force album) br /Each track is filled with guitar wizardry, apart from the first one which isn't even a song. br / br /If you are into excellent guitar playing with everything, speed, style and feeling, buy this album and ignore the review below this one !!


review by: marx1977 date: 2006-10-17 rating:
Total And Utter Rubbish!!!
This album is so bad it defies common sense and logic. It really is poor. I was talked into buying it by a work colleague who convinced me Malmsteen was some kind of guitar playing genius. What!!!!The man plays like a machine. This is blindingly obvious on this album, no feeling, no emotion. So he can fire his way through about 500,000 notes a minute, so? Big deal. I like my guitar orientated music but never before have I been so disappointed with a supposed guitar "Genius". Quite literally a total cowpat of an album.

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