Facts and thoughts of
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's
studio albums.

The album "Alchemy"
(1999)

The songs
1 Blitzkrieg
2 Leonardo
3 Playing With Fire
4 Stand (The)
5 Wield My Sword
6 Blue
7 Legion Of The Damned*
8 Deamon Dance (7,405,926)*
9 Hangar 18, Area 51
10 Voodoo Nights
11 Asylum
I - Asylum
II - Sky Euphoria
III - Quantum Leap
All compositions, lyrics and arrangements by: Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Produced by: Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Engineered by: Yngwie J. Malmsteen assisted by John Sawyer
Mixed by: Tom Fletcher, Yngwie J. Malmsteen and John Sawyer at Studio 308, Miami, Florida, USA
Mastered by: Gene Grimaldi and Tom Fletcher at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, California, USA
Recorded at: Studio 308, Miami, Florida, USA
Guitar and studio technician: John Sawyer
Drums recorded at: Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, USA
Engineered by: Chris Tsangarides assisted by Alfred Bosco

Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar*, acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer, moog taurus pedals, sitar, vocals
Mark Boals: Lead vocals
Barry Dunaway: Bass (except *)
Mats Olausson: Keyboards
John Macaluso: Drums

Management: Jim Lewis

My own opinion of this album.
Alchemy was a great improvement to the precursor album Facing The Animal. The album contains more instrumentals and includes some speedy songs like Wield My Sword and Hangar 18, Area 51, which is not only speedy but also with refrains easy to remember and sing along with.
Yngwie has put in a more heavy sound on this album, such as on the songs Leonardo, Legion Of The Damned and Voodoo Nights.
The album ends with the Asylum trilogy, which includes the three parts - Asylum, Sky Euphoria and Quantum Leap. All three are awesome and while Sky Euphoria goes back to the classical sound with strings and acoustic guitar Quantum Leap is the most different and exciting work of Yngwie I have ever heard. This instrumental features mainly keyboards and drums, while Yngwie's heavy guitar completes it all in the background.
  • Total credit points: 52
  • Average credit points: 4.00
  • Musical variation: 3
  • Total sound quality: 4
  • Sound quality, treble: 5
  • Sound quality, bass: 4
  • Sound quality, purity: 3
 Front cover of Alchemy

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