Is Ywingie Malmsteen Prog?

in wikipedia, on the Steve Hackett article appears Yngwie as being influenced by him... but barely technically really... Yngwie was really near neo-classical prog-metal in the first album "Rising Force", in which he wrote quite ambitious titles such as "Icarus Dream Suite" and "Far Beyond The Sun". But from that album on he just plain imitated Eddie Van Halen (in songwritting, mind you, the tapping and sweep picking was pioneered by someone else: you-know-who) and other metal outfits. But of course when the music is drowned by the technical ability that's where the "prog" term suffers greatly. I had watched his "concerto suite for electric guitar and orchestra" and that's the first time he implemented a sort of allegro or even sarabande piece. Most of his metal albums are in the same mood... some sort of adagio, and that gets repetitive quickly, but that's probably the mood that metal wants to give us in the first place, and that's one of the reasons I don't like metal (just one of the zillion of reasons I don't like metal). Lately he sounds like an imitation of late 90's power metal bands (Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica, etc), and for me they're just a parody to classical music, as well as Yngwie's work after his first album, and that album was not a cornerstone of classical music in the first place.