Length 50:42 Label Polydor Records | Release date 8 April 1988 | |
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Released 8 April 1988 (1988-04-08) Recorded Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles; House of Music Studios in West Orange, New Jersey; Studio D in Austin, Texas Producer Yngwie Malmsteen, Jeff Glixman, Jim Lewis Odyssey
(1988) Trial by Fire Live in Leningrad
(1989) Artists Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Lynn Turner, Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force Genres Heavy metal, Neoclassical metal, Hard rock Similar Trilogy, Marching Out, Rising Force, Trial by Fire: Live in Leningrad, Fire & Ice | ||
Odyssey is the fourth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on 8 April 1988 through Polydor Records. The album reached No. 40 on the US Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for eighteen weeks, as well as reaching the top 50 in five other countries. As of 2015 it remains Malmsteen's highest-charting release on the Billboard 200.
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Critical reception
Steve Huey at AllMusic gave Odyssey two stars out of five, calling it "a more subdued, polished collection seemingly designed for mainstream radio airplay", but that it "shows little difference in approach from [Malmsteen's] previous output". He praised Joe Lynn Turner's vocals and Malmsteen's guitar work, but remarked that the latter sounds "constrained and passionless" due in part to his recovery from a near-fatal car accident in 1987.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Joe Lynn Turner; all music composed by Yngwie Malmsteen.
Personnel
Songs
1Rising Force4:25
2Hold On5:10
3Heaven Tonight4:07