He came to the USA in 1982 with a stratocaster and a pair of jeans, he saw and he conquered. Hailing from his native Sweden, Yngwie Malmsteen not only is the inventor of neo classical shred and the fastest guitarist known to mankind : he is also one of the hottest hard blues player with a monster vibrato. All the shredders that tried to copy him failed to reproduce that warm sound and he remains unsurpassed to this day.