This was the album that convinced me to stop listening to any new Yngwie material, until 18 months ago – a time lag of 15 years. Damn this album for that! His stuff since has been markedly better.
Joe Lynn Turner's brief (but brilliant) term in this band had been terminated before this album, and here we find Yngwie really going for the commercial, radio-friendly type of songs that he was lusting over.
The result is a rather disappointing album. Unlike the fire and excitement that was prevalent on this albums predecessor Odyssey, this is a relatively bland and boring selection and arrangement of songs, generally without passion or inspiration.
Why Yngwie felt the need to head down this path is anyone's guess, but it was always my assumption that if he had stayed true to what he had produced on the first four albums, and with better marketing, he would be a 'radio star' anyway!
Anyhow, this was so disappointing that it stopped me buying any new material from him for 15 years. I'll bet that wasn't his intention!
Memories : We got to see Yngwie on this tour at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, which was exciting in itself. It could have been better. Even though we were in the fourth row, we had to stand on our dodgy fold-up chairs all night to see over everyone standing in front of us. The new lead singer, Goran Edman, was extremely interested in himself, to the point that it looked as though he'd be happier being in a menage-a'one. And the setlist contained a thousands crappy songs off this album and left off a lot of his brilliant earlier releases. A real shame.
Rating : Never really cut it, I'm afraid. 2/5.
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