Odyssey is an album by guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen released in March of 1988, With Joe Lynn Turner on lead vocals, with the three instrumentals being "Bite the Bullet" - a brief intro to "Riot In the Dungeons", "Memories" - the outro to the whole album, and "Krakatau," a six minute piece that contains many themes Yngwie still plays in concert today. The songs are strongly influenced by 1970s prog rock and heavy metal, such as Deep Purple's Machine Head, Rainbow's Rising or Emerson Lake and Palmer's Tarkus. This was the last Yngwie studio album to feature Jens Johansson.

The song Rising Force was one of the principal songs for the concert openings, the solo of this song have become a classic for the guitar students around the world, the song is a re-edition from an old song "Merlin's Castle" of his early days in Sweden.

The Odyssey is the sixth studio effort of progressive metal band Symphony X. The fourth track, "Accolade II", is a sequel to the famous "The Accolade" from The Divine Wings of Tragedy. "King of Terrors", track number five, is based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum." This line continues in the sixth track, where the seventh track can be seen as a warming up to the grand finale: track eight is a 24-minute musical take on/version of Homer's The Odyssey about the journey home of Greek hero Odysseus.