Yngwie Malmsteen "Fire & Ice (Germany, Elektra Records, 7559-61137-2)"

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

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."

Track listing

All music is composed by Yngwie Malmsteen, except where noted

1. "Perpetual" (instrumental) 4:14
2. "Dragonfly" (music: 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" Malmsteen, Edman 5:17
6. "No Mercy" (contains an arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Badinerie") Malmsteen 5:32
7. "C'est La Vie" Malmsteen, Edman 5:19
8. "Leviathan" (instrumental) 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" (instrumental) 1:28
14. "Final Curtain" Malmsteen 4:46

Total length: 64:38

Recording information:

Produced by Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami and Polar Studios, Stockholm.

Engineered and recorded by Simon Hanhart.

Mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero at Electric Lady Studios, New York.