--- product_id: 15917632 title: "Rising Force" price: "£23.47" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/15917632-rising-force store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Rising Force **Price:** £23.47 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Rising Force - **How much does it cost?** £23.47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/15917632-rising-force) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force - desertcart.com Music Review: One of the very few original masters - It was 1984. Me and my friends were very into metal bands from USA at the time. We were following the glam bands mainly but we used to love bands like Metallica and Anthrax too. Those were the hair metal days! One of my friends one day told me "I heard an album from a great swedish rock guitarist is coming out and it will be ALL guitar solos". I perfectly remember that I said "what a bore this album should be, ALL guitar solos?!" Then Rising force came out and it was a shock. Because the very first time I put it on the intensity of the music, Yngwie's completly innovative musical personality and blazing virtuosity, his impressive musicality (that was something absolutly new and unique!) completly blew me away. At the time Yngwie exploded onto the scene and he became a huge star overnight. In those days Van Halen was the guy everyone tried to emulate in the rock context but Yngwie showed a completly different way of playing the guitar being as good as Eddie. He showed there was a way to sound different from Van Halen being at the same level! It was sensational! His classic minor runs, his classical music quotes, played with sincerity and attitude, his unbelievable blues-Hendrix chops, the epic flavour of his music made him unique and totally devastating! He was recognizable from the very first note (and still he is of course). One of the most difficult and important things for a musician! I can't forget that I completly fell in love with Yngwie, he seemed to me the most virtuosistic player ever! And I really loved his music! I listened to this album over and over, I did buy the VHS of his concert in Japan (if I remember well it was a japanese concert) and I played it a million times. It was amazing to see this guy from the old and dusty Europe coming out with something so fantastic, so fresh, so unique, with an attitude SO BAD and so proud of his european roots! An european who was able to be a serious pretender to the world's best guitarist crown! Wow! And this album was only the first! I thought "wow if this is only his first album what will he do in the future!?". And luckly Yngwie produced a lot of very good album in the years that followed, but not legendary as this one. This one to me is legendary as "Van Halen 1". It is completly different of course but it is equally beautiful and it is together with it, one of the most important guitar album of all time. ABSOLUTLY! No doubt about it. After this one Yngwie has been copied thousands of times by thousands of players all over the world. Now his music may sound repetitive, maybe he is out of ideas, but I don't forget that he is one of the most fantastic musicians this our instrument, the guitar, had the privilege to have in its team. With this album a force was really rising, it was Yngwie! Thank you for the inspiration Yngwie J. Malmsteen! Review: Killer work and concept - This album is about as groundbreaking as it gets. I was never particularly (still not) "into" shred metal when I first heard about how great Yngwie was from my younger brother back in 1985. I was 20 at the time and much more interested in Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Tony Iommi, VH, all kinds of stuff but I'd never heard of Yngwie. I was also a budding student guitar player. Well I finally broke down and bought this album on vinyl a year later. Wow, this guy was almost too good. Great tone!! Killer sounding and very Stratty, this guy really knew how to best exploit the awesome sounds a stock Fender Stratocaster is capable of. Yes his guitars had scalloped fretboards and noise eliminating Dimarzio pickups but it still sounded like a Stratocaster straight into a Marshall stack to me. And the songs and the lightening fast runs were and are a thing of wonder. It could be said that Yngwie threw down the gauntlet with this first solo album. Now what do gauntlet throw downs usually do? Well in this case three things, 1) a challenge either by other guitarists to try to show they're just as good or better or a challenge by people who are jealous and lame and find it easy to attack the works of others yet they don't have their own works to demonstrate their superiority with. 2), People hear the work and are immediately impressed and know they're hearing something masterful and 3) budding guitarists (like yours truly) are inspired to pick up the guitar again and start listening to more classical music to hear where it all came from. Don't get where all the hate comes from, it's just music people. If the music doesn't appeal to you then don't buy it and don't complain about it. There's lots of music I'm not fond of particularly but I dont go out of my way to find and bash. Heck, one idiot compared what Yngwie does to what Stevie Wonder did. Really?? I love both artists but to create a pi$$ing contest between them shows complete ignorance. The most often heard complaint is a lack of melody. Really? You people are screwed up, go away. Yngwie isn't wasting his time listening to you fools thankfully and has stuck to his guns and kept on the same path he created for himself and his loyal listeners to enjoy. Oh yeah, that vinyl copy of this album I bought 28yrs ago? I dusted it off on my Nitty Gritty machine and gave it a spin and it's just colossal sounding. Blows the CD away I'm afraid but the CD is still awesome. If you only ever buy one single Yngwie recording this is the ONE!! ## Images ![Rising Force - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716ojcPg3tL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the very few original masters *by J***T on January 13, 2007* It was 1984. Me and my friends were very into metal bands from USA at the time. We were following the glam bands mainly but we used to love bands like Metallica and Anthrax too. Those were the hair metal days! One of my friends one day told me "I heard an album from a great swedish rock guitarist is coming out and it will be ALL guitar solos". I perfectly remember that I said "what a bore this album should be, ALL guitar solos?!" Then Rising force came out and it was a shock. Because the very first time I put it on the intensity of the music, Yngwie's completly innovative musical personality and blazing virtuosity, his impressive musicality (that was something absolutly new and unique!) completly blew me away. At the time Yngwie exploded onto the scene and he became a huge star overnight. In those days Van Halen was the guy everyone tried to emulate in the rock context but Yngwie showed a completly different way of playing the guitar being as good as Eddie. He showed there was a way to sound different from Van Halen being at the same level! It was sensational! His classic minor runs, his classical music quotes, played with sincerity and attitude, his unbelievable blues-Hendrix chops, the epic flavour of his music made him unique and totally devastating! He was recognizable from the very first note (and still he is of course). One of the most difficult and important things for a musician! I can't forget that I completly fell in love with Yngwie, he seemed to me the most virtuosistic player ever! And I really loved his music! I listened to this album over and over, I did buy the VHS of his concert in Japan (if I remember well it was a japanese concert) and I played it a million times. It was amazing to see this guy from the old and dusty Europe coming out with something so fantastic, so fresh, so unique, with an attitude SO BAD and so proud of his european roots! An european who was able to be a serious pretender to the world's best guitarist crown! Wow! And this album was only the first! I thought "wow if this is only his first album what will he do in the future!?". And luckly Yngwie produced a lot of very good album in the years that followed, but not legendary as this one. This one to me is legendary as "Van Halen 1". It is completly different of course but it is equally beautiful and it is together with it, one of the most important guitar album of all time. ABSOLUTLY! No doubt about it. After this one Yngwie has been copied thousands of times by thousands of players all over the world. Now his music may sound repetitive, maybe he is out of ideas, but I don't forget that he is one of the most fantastic musicians this our instrument, the guitar, had the privilege to have in its team. With this album a force was really rising, it was Yngwie! Thank you for the inspiration Yngwie J. Malmsteen! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Killer work and concept *by K***T on April 28, 2014* This album is about as groundbreaking as it gets. I was never particularly (still not) "into" shred metal when I first heard about how great Yngwie was from my younger brother back in 1985. I was 20 at the time and much more interested in Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Tony Iommi, VH, all kinds of stuff but I'd never heard of Yngwie. I was also a budding student guitar player. Well I finally broke down and bought this album on vinyl a year later. Wow, this guy was almost too good. Great tone!! Killer sounding and very Stratty, this guy really knew how to best exploit the awesome sounds a stock Fender Stratocaster is capable of. Yes his guitars had scalloped fretboards and noise eliminating Dimarzio pickups but it still sounded like a Stratocaster straight into a Marshall stack to me. And the songs and the lightening fast runs were and are a thing of wonder. It could be said that Yngwie threw down the gauntlet with this first solo album. Now what do gauntlet throw downs usually do? Well in this case three things, 1) a challenge either by other guitarists to try to show they're just as good or better or a challenge by people who are jealous and lame and find it easy to attack the works of others yet they don't have their own works to demonstrate their superiority with. 2), People hear the work and are immediately impressed and know they're hearing something masterful and 3) budding guitarists (like yours truly) are inspired to pick up the guitar again and start listening to more classical music to hear where it all came from. Don't get where all the hate comes from, it's just music people. If the music doesn't appeal to you then don't buy it and don't complain about it. There's lots of music I'm not fond of particularly but I dont go out of my way to find and bash. Heck, one idiot compared what Yngwie does to what Stevie Wonder did. Really?? I love both artists but to create a pi$$ing contest between them shows complete ignorance. The most often heard complaint is a lack of melody. Really? You people are screwed up, go away. Yngwie isn't wasting his time listening to you fools thankfully and has stuck to his guns and kept on the same path he created for himself and his loyal listeners to enjoy. Oh yeah, that vinyl copy of this album I bought 28yrs ago? I dusted it off on my Nitty Gritty machine and gave it a spin and it's just colossal sounding. Blows the CD away I'm afraid but the CD is still awesome. If you only ever buy one single Yngwie recording this is the ONE!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The gtr player that started the shred movement *by W***. on May 12, 2025* Gr8 album!! The 1 that started it all!!! Delivered on time, & in gr8 shape!! 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