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

The album "War To End All Wars"
(2000)

The songs
1 Prophet Of Doom
2 Crucify
3 Bad Reputation
4 Catch 22
5 Masquerade
6 Molto Arpeggiosa
7 Miracle Of Life
8 The Wizard
9 Preludium
10 Wild One
11 Tarot
12 Instrumental Institution
13 War To End All Wars
14 Black Sheep Of The Family
All compositions, lyrics and arrangements by: Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Produced by: Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Engineered by: Brian Fitzpatrick
Mixed by: Brian Fitzpatrick and Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Mastered by: Michael Fuller at Fuller Sound, Miami, Florida, USA
Recorded at: Studio 308 and Baroque & Roll Studios, Miami, Florida, USA
Additional recording: White House Studio, Miami, Florida, USA

Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, gong, vocals
Mark Boals: Lead vocals
Mats Olausson: Keyboards
John Macaluso: Drums

Management: Michael A. Spitzer

My own opinion of this album.
  • Yngwie's best selling album in ten years.
War To End All Wars is a great album with a great variety of musical styles; from classical tunes of Preludium to the heavy tunes of Crucify and in between there are instrumentals like Molto Arpeggiosa that really shows Yngwie's amazing skill and technique and Instrumental Institution that goes back to the early guitar-keyboard interaction of mid 80's Yngwie. Also, one should not disregard the ballad Miracle Of Life which is by far Yngwie's best ballad ever with a very well balanced vocal harmonies and tunes.
The title track War To End All Wars is a song with heavy tunes and Wild One combines heavy tunes with fast tempo - both are great heavy metal songs.
There are less keyboards on this album than usual, which is a pity as Mats Olausson is one of the very best in the game.
One thing that has been drawing some attention is the diffuse sound which is rather poor. Apparently (according to Michael Fuller who mastered the album) both Yngwie and the head mixer Brian Fitzpatrick was very clear of what sound they wanted, which indicates that the final sound was intended.
  • Total credit points: 58
  • Average credit points: 4.46
  • Musical variation: 5
  • Total sound quality: 2
  • Sound quality, treble: 3
  • Sound quality, bass: 4
  • Sound quality, purity: 1
 Front cover of War To End All Wars

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