In 2007, Malmsteen was honored in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II . Players can receive the “Yngwie Malmsteen” award by hitting 1000 or more notes in succession. February 2008 saw the replacement of singer Doogie White with former Iced Earth and Judas Priest and current Beyond Fear singer Tim “Ripper” Owens , with whom Malmsteen had once recorded a cover of Ozzy Osbourne ‘s song ” Mr. Crowley “, for the 2000 Osbourne tribute album Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy . The first Malmsteen album to feature Owens is titled Perpetual Flame and was released on 4 October. On 25 November 2008, Malmsteen had three of his songs (“Caprici Di Diablo”, “Damnation Game”, and “Red Devil”, all from this latter album) released as downloadable content for the video games Rock Band and Rock Band 2 , and later for Rock Band 3 .
In 2007, Malmsteen was honored in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero
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