As part of a band effort named 'MacAlpine', "Eyes of the World" was released in 1990 as a more commercially oriented attempt to emulate other hard rock acts at the time. The venture was short-lived, and his subsequent album "Freedom to Fly" (1992) was a return to his instrumental-based work. A further consecutive string of instrumental albums followed throughout the 1990s, most of them through the renowned Shrapnel Records label: "Madness" (1993), "Premonition" (1994), "Evolution" (1995) and "Violent Machine" (1996). For his last album of the decade, "Master of Paradise" (1999), MacAlpine briefly assumed singing duties in an effort to experiment with different styles. After the release of "Chromaticity" in August 2001, he took an extended hiatus from recording solo albums and worked with a variety of other musicians and bands, most notably with supergroups CAB and Ring of Fire. Nearly a decade later, in June 2011, he released his self-titled eleventh studio album through guitarist Steve Vai's Favored Nations label.