Fire & Ice (Yngwie Malmsteen album)

Fire & Ice
Studio album by Yngwie Malmsteen
Released	7 February 1992
Recorded	Criteria Studios in Miami; Polar Studios in Stockholm
Genre	Neoclassical metal, heavy metal, hard rock
Length	64:38
Label	Elektra
Producer	Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie Malmsteen chronology
The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection (1991) Fire & Ice (1992) The Seventh Sign (1994)
Singles from Fire & Ice
"Teaser" Released: 1992[1]

Fire & Ice is the sixth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on 7 February 1992 through Elektra Records.^[2] The album topped the Japanese albums chart,^[3] reached No. 121 on the US Billboard 200^[4] and charted within the top 90 in the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]

Steve Huey at AllMusic gave Fire & Ice three stars out of five, saying that it is "most successful when Malmsteen returns to the heavy baroque influence of his early work" and that "there are some fine longer compositions here that will please hardcore Yngwie fans." He criticised the album's single, "Teaser", as being "a flawed stab at radio rock" and sounding like "a generic, clichéd hair metal song with Malmsteen on guitar."^[5]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Yngwie Malmsteen, except where noted. 

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Perpetual"	Malmsteen	4:14
2.	"Dragonfly" (lyrics: Malmsteen, Göran Edman)	Malmsteen	4:49
3.	"Teaser"	Malmsteen, Edman	3:29
4.	"How Many Miles to Babylon"	Malmsteen, Edman	6:10
5.	"Cry No More" (contains an arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Badinerie"[5])	Malmsteen, Edman	5:17
6.	"No Mercy"	Malmsteen	5:32
7.	"C'est La Vie"	Malmsteen, Edman	5:19
8.	"Leviathan"	Malmsteen	4:24
9.	"Fire and Ice"	Malmsteen, Edman	4:31
10.	"Forever Is a Long Time"	Malmsteen, Edman	4:28
11.	"I'm My Own Enemy"	Edman	6:09
12.	"All I Want Is Everything"	Malmsteen	4:02
13.	"Golden Dawn"	Malmsteen	1:28
14.	"Final Curtain"	Malmsteen	4:46
Total length:			64:38

Japanese edition bonus track
No.	Title	Music	Length
15.	"Broken Glass"	Malmsteen	4:02

Personnel

• Yngwie Malmsteen – guitar, Moog Taurus, sitar, strings arrangement, background vocals, production
• Göran Edman – lead vocals
• Mats Olausson – keyboard
• Bo Werner – drums (except track 8)
• Michael Von Knorring – drums (track 8)
• Svante Henryson – bass, cello, strings arrangement assistance
• Per Bögberg – viola
• Ulf Forsberg – violin
• Svein-Harald Martinsen – violin
• Kalle Moraeus – violin
• Lolo Lannerbäck – flute
• Simon Hanhart – engineering
• Keith Rose – engineering assistance
• Steve Thompson – mixing
• Michael Barbiero – mixing
• George Marino – mastering

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1992	Japanese albums chart	1[3]
	Billboard Heatseekers	2[4]
	Swedish albums chart	11[2]
	Swiss albums chart	30[2]
	Dutch albums chart	89[2]
	Billboard 200	121[4]

See also

• List of Oricon number-one albums

References

1. "Yngwie Malmsteen – Teaser". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
2. "Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire & Ice (album)". finnishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
3. "1992.2.24付　アルバムTop20". (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
4. "Fire & Ice - Yngwie Malmsteen | Awards". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
5. Huey, Steve. "Fire & Ice - Yngwie Malmsteen". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2014-01-10.

External links

• Fire & Ice, 1992 at yngwiemalmsteen.com
• In Review: Yngwie J. Malmsteen "Fire And Ice" at Guitar Nine Records