Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign (1994) (Japanese PCCY-00531)
Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign (1994)
Year & Label: 1994, Pony Canyon Inc., Japan | CD#: PCCY-00531
Flac (image) | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Artwork (JPG, 300 dpi) | File-hosts: FilePost
Neoclassical Power Metal/Shred | FLAC: 430 MB | Artwork: 60 MB | MP3: 130 MB | 5% WinRAR Recovery
EAC Secure-rip with LOG+CUE+COVERS | Source: eMule
Year & Label: 1994, Pony Canyon Inc., Japan | CD#: PCCY-00531
Flac (image) | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Artwork (JPG, 300 dpi) | File-hosts: FilePost
Neoclassical Power Metal/Shred | FLAC: 430 MB | Artwork: 60 MB | MP3: 130 MB | 5% WinRAR Recovery
EAC Secure-rip with LOG+CUE+COVERS | Source: eMule
Malmsteen's seventh album is coming off the disappointing and tedious Fire and Ice; the Swedish guitarist had nowhere to go but up. First, let me start with the obvious, the trademark Malmsteen solos are once again alive and well, in this aspect I got exactly what I was expecting. What surprised me here is his bass playing is much more in the forefront and is not just background noise; an example of this is "Pyramids of Cheops".Yngwie J. Malmsteen Official Homepage
As for the rest of the lineup, Mats Olausson is the only member featured on the previous record. For this album Malmsteen recruited Mike Terrana on drums and Mike Vescera at the vocals. Terrana's performance here is good, as expected from any former member of this band but he won't amaze you with his playing. Olausson's keyboards make an occasional appearance and they only take the lead a couple of times. And although Vescera's voice butchers most of Yngwie's classics (check Youtube if you don't believe me), he has the necessary power and personality to give the songs on this album an identity, unlike the previous singer Goran Edman.
The Seventh Sign has a mix of Hard Rock, A.O.R., and Heavy Metal styles in the songs, which would have been a major negative except for the fact that this was released in 1994, right in the middle of the "Dark Ages", so I'll cut him some slack for that. The reason for that is because this record is a major step up in terms of song quality compare to the previous album. That being said, it wasn't much of a challenge. There are numbers here that are worthy of Malmsteen's giant ego like the title track (best song here), "Never Die", "Crash and Burn" and "Hairtrigger". There is still some excessiveness here but is not as big that it will make a chore listening to the album.
But there are negative points on this album: "I Don't Know" sucks big time, the Hard Rock-styled song is repetitive and the chorus makes me cringe every time that I listen to it. The required ballad "Prisoner of your Love" is good but you'll forget it right after the song ends. The instrumentals featured here I have heard before; in fact that statement can be applied for the whole album aside from the title track. Still The Seventh Sign is a small but noticeable improvement to what Malmsteen did previously in the 90's; just don't pick this album to start out if you don't know anything about him.
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Yngwie J. Malmsteen At Wikipedia
Yngwie J. Malmsteen At Metal Archives
Musicians:
Vocals : Michael Vescera
Guitars, bass : Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Keyboards : Mats Olausson
Drums : Mike Terrana
Track List:
01. Never Die [3:29]
02. I Don't Know [3:26]
03. Meant To Be [3:52]
04. Forever One [4:36]
05. Hairtrigger [2:43]
06. Brothers [3:47]
07. Seventh Sign [6:32]
08. Bad Blood [4:25]
09. Prisoner Of Your Love [4:28]
10. Pyramid Of Cheops [5:11]
11. Crash And Burn [4:06]
12. Sorrow [2:04]
13. Angel In Heat (Bonus Track) [4:14]
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
EAC extraction logfile from 13. March 2012, 1:19
Yngwie Malmsteen / The Seventh Sign
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EAC extraction logfile from 13. March 2012, 1:19
Yngwie Malmsteen / The Seventh Sign
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
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:29.00 | 0 | 15674
2 | 3:29.00 | 3:25.47 | 15675 | 31096
3 | 6:54.47 | 3:52.13 | 31097 | 48509
4 | 10:46.60 | 4:35.50 | 48510 | 69184
5 | 15:22.35 | 2:43.02 | 69185 | 81411
6 | 18:05.37 | 3:47.00 | 81412 | 98436
7 | 21:52.37 | 6:31.43 | 98437 | 127804
8 | 28:24.05 | 4:25.10 | 127805 | 147689
9 | 32:49.15 | 4:27.40 | 147690 | 167754
10 | 37:16.55 | 5:10.45 | 167755 | 191049
11 | 42:27.25 | 4:05.62 | 191050 | 209486
12 | 46:33.12 | 2:03.38 | 209487 | 218749
13 | 48:36.50 | 4:14.15 | 218750 | 237814
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Filename D:\Video\Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
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Copy CRC 6138A6F8
Copy OK
No errors occurred
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End of status report
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