Eddie Trunk's That Metal Show recently featured Swedish guitar legend YNGWIE MALMSTEEN. A 5-part series of video highlights from Malmsteen's appearance can be found at this location.

As previously reported, Malmsteen is nominated in the 2009 edition of the Swedish Metal Awards, to be held January 23rd in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Nominations in the various categories are as follows:

Hard Rock: BULLET - Bite The Bullet, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN - Perpetual Flame, H.E.A.T. - H.E.A.T., AMMOTRACK - Ammotrack.

Death Metal: IN FLAMES - A Sense Of Purpose, DISMEMBER - Dismember, WITHIN Y - The Cult, GRAVE - Dominion VIII.

Heavy/Power Metal: SABATON - The Art Of War, LECHERY - Violator, CLOUDSCAPE - Global Drama, CRYSTAL EYES - Chained.

Glam/Sleaze: GEMINI FIVE - Sex Drugs Anarchy, SISTER SIN - Switchblade Serenades, VANITY BLVD - Rock n' Roll Overdose, FATAL SMILE - World Domination.

Punk/Hardcore: NO FUN AT ALL - Low Rider, MILLENCOLIN - Machine 15, KID DOWN - I Want My Girlfriend Rich, THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY - The Cross Of My Calling.

Metal (Thrash, Black, Doom etc.): THE HAUNTED - Versus, ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET - Grim Tales, AMON AMARTH - Twilight Of The Thunder God, OPETH - Watershed.

Alternative Metal (Modern, Nu, Progressive, etc.): SONIC SYNDICATE - Love And Other Disasters, NERVED - Finally Nerved, EVERGREY - Torn, PAIN - Cynic Paradise.

Newcomer: DEAD BY APRIL, SISTER SIN, AMMOTRACK, RENEGADE FIVE.

Video/Director: IN FLAMES - 'Alias' / Patric Ullaeus, M.A.N - 'My Own Sickness' / Martin Holtmann, SONIC SYNDICATE - 'Jack Of Diamonds' / Patric Ullaeus, OPETH - 'Burden' / Lasse Hoile.

Live Act: SONIC SYNDICATE, THE HAUNTED, SABATON, MUSTASCH.

Best International Album: METALLICA - Death Magnetic, MÖTLEY CRÜE - Saints Of Los Angeles, AC/DC - Black Ice, GUNS N' ROSES - Chinese Democracy.

Further info here.