Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Steeler named after a Judas Priest song are by and large mostly remembered as the launchpad for the virtuoso guitar skills of Yngwie Malmsteen, who of course would go onto become one of the pivotal neo-classical guitarists of the decade. He largely garnered this acclaim after the demise of Randy Rhoads as far as American based artists were concerned when it came to neo-classical guitarists. Around this time most US metal bands were usually in awe of the guitar histrionics of guitarists like Eddie Van Halen, but the introduction to US shores of Sweden’s Yngwie Malmsteen would be something of a sensation around 1983 and 1984 period especially with the release in 1984 of Rising Force. His sensational neo-classical style came straight from the European school of guitarists like Ritchie Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth and he would contrast starkly with purer metal sound delivered by guitarists like Eddie Van Halen.