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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN TO Launch Fender Custom Shop Tribute Series Stratocaster 'Play Loud' Guitar

October 17, 2008

The long-awaited new album from Swedish guitar master Yngwie Malmsteen, "Perpetual Flame", was released on October 14 on Malmsteen's own Rising Force Records.

Equally significant to Fender fans, the release of "Perpetual Flame" coincides with the November 2008 release of the Fender Custom Shop 100-instrument Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster, a.k.a. "Play Loud," guitar replica. The instrument is a meticulous recreation of the infamous and battle-hardened 1971 Stratocaster guitar that fueled Malmsteen's meteoric rise to metal stardom, complete with heavily worn Olympic white finish, scalloped fingerboard and distinctive body graphics.

Malmsteen rose to fame in the early 1980s as the phenomenally talented and flamboyantly theatrical sole progenitor of "neoclassic" metal. Live and on record, his classically inflected guitar chops dazzled all who heard him. His phenomenal playing proved highly influential and served as the foundation for an entire new metal sub-genre. Several of his many albums are considered metal classics, including "Rising Force" (1984),"Marching Out" (1985),"Fire and Ice" (1992) and "Unleash the Fury" (2005).

Visit Fender's Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster web site at this location.

Fan-filmed video footage of Yngwie Malmsteen's October 5, 2008 performance at The Granada in Dallas, Texas can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "mav5150").

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