Gamma Ray

Acts: Blind Guardian, Kissin' Dynamite, Gamma Ray, H.E.A.T, Dynazty, AxxisDate: Friday, December 13, 2024Venue: Schwabenhalle, Augsburg, Germany Kai Hansen trying to breathe new life into Gamma Ray? Where better to catch that than…

Label: earMUSICRelease date: September 10, 2021Genre: Heavy Metal / Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 Gamma Ray is the band German guitarist Kai Hansen founded in 1989 after leaving Helloween. A "shocking" revelation that anyone can read on…

"Here are ten hand-picked power metal albums that came out twenty years ago, left a real mark on the power metal scene and the metal world in general, and make for especially sweet trips down memory lane."

Performers: Megadeth, Gamma RayLocation: Bologna / Estragon / ItalyConcert date: Friday, 03.06.2016 The day after the notorious Gods of Metal festival, Bologna, Italy, got a mini reprise of it. Megadeth and Gamma Ray, who had shared…

The day after the infamous Gods of Metal festival, a mini-reprise of it went down in Bologna, Italy. Megadeth and Gamma Ray, who had shared part of the bill the day before at the legendary Italian rock and metal festival, teamed up again…

Location: Graz / Explosiv / AustriaDate: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 With interest in classic European power metal sinking all around, the tour by the legendary Hamburg heavy metallers Gamma Ray was a real balm for the few lonely…

Amid the general decline of interest in classic European power metal, the tour of the famed Hamburg heavy metallers Gamma Ray, who are marking 25 years in the music business this year, was just the balm the few lonely, still-living power…

This is a reissue of a historic Gamma Ray concert that, until now, was only available on a VHS tape originally released in 1990! A must-have for any true power metal fan!

A fine document to set you off on an adventure into the musical world of Gamma Ray, and one that may well tempt you into collecting all the classic Gamma Ray albums being reissued bit by bit throughout this year.

With the exceptionally dark "Empire Of The Undead," Gamma Ray, small sonic experiments and all, stay at the very top of the game when it comes to brewing the noblest power metal, the way the unique, universal magic of this genre knows it!

" Gamma Ray remain a fortress of German metal at its finest live, and it was well worth catching the band at a proper full-length show after that short encounter at CUK Kino Šiška in Ljubljana last year! "

Gamma Ray remain a bastion of German metal at its finest live, and it was well worth catching the band at a proper full-length show after that short encounter at CUK Kino Šiška in Ljubljana last year!

Two new tracks, two excellent covers, and the rest of the record filled out with six great live performances taken from the band's most recent headlining tour. Don't worry. None of the tracks on the EP have been released anywhere until now.

"The Pumpkins are no doubt one of Germany's biggest bands and will always be welcome here, but they're capable of way better, and that setlist could really use a serious shake-up. Gamma Ray, on the other hand, blew everyone away."

The second edition of the Hellish Rock tour, which pairs the two biggest names in German power metal, Gamma Ray and Helloween, finally made a stop in Ljubljana!

Veteran Gamma Ray bassist Dirk Schlächter, who also handles producer duties on the band's albums, opens up in an in-depth chat with RockLine about the mood in the Gamma Ray camp on the new Hellish Rock tour. The run brought the band to…

The refreshed Gamma Ray lineup that recorded the albums »Somewhere Out In Space« and, just a year later, the excellent »Powerplant«, was in extraordinary form and bursting with creative freshness at the turn of the millennium!

The first proper Gamma Ray live album, capturing a concert from the tour promoting a studio record. The set list is less interesting than on Skeletons In The Closet, but the band's magic wins out anyway!

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 24.02.2010Attendance: 550Ticket price: 21.00€ Gamma Ray hardly need an introduction in the power metal world. This is the band that enshrined everything founder…

The new album shows Gamma Ray are firing on all creative cylinders again. It sits right up there with the best work in the band's catalog, and it's got no shortage of caustic venom and defiance, a textbook definition of old-school power…

»No World Order!« is the stripped-down follow-up to "Powerplant" (1999). Gamma Ray ditched some of the trickier arrangements from "Powerplant" and came out with an even more aggressive heavy metal album!

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: All Kart Halle / Kaufbeuren / GermanyConcert date: December 22, 2007Attendance: 3500Ticket price: €32.00 For you to really want to see the same concert a second time, it has to be a…

Oh boy!! I can't write much differently than I did for the Majestic album! With the new album "Land Of The Free pt. II", Gamma Ray only confirm that the band's paths of development are completely used up. If "Powerplant" (1999) was the…

Gamma Ray is a name heavy/power metal fans need no introduction to. Charismatic frontman Kai Hansen has led the band through almost twenty years of career to become one of the genre's bigger names. Kai, who built his cult status already

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Studentski kulturni centar / Belgrade / SerbiaConcert date: 16.11.2007Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 2.400DIN The Hellish Rock 07/08 tour. Helloween. Gamma Ray. Belgrade. Is there even…

Location: Idroscalo (Milan) / ItalyDate: 03.06.2006 A rundown of melodic European power metal, spiced up with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus left at midnight, and with the lovely, uplifting vocal soundtrack of mostly…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Idroscalo / Milan / ItalyConcert date: 03.06.2006Attendance: 18000 A revision of melodic European power metal, spiced with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus pulled out at midnight, and with…

Kai Hansen, still one of the most respected German guitarists around, left Helloween at exactly the right time, as if he'd sensed how rough things would get for the pumpkins down the road. With his longtime friend, the German Rob Halford,…

The year is 1991. Tough times for the power metallers of the day, or rather, the classic heavy metallers. Thrash and grunge were booming. And the German heavy metal scene? Plenty of "true" metal bands caved to label pressure. &qu

The keyboards were getting more and more active. Gamma Ray worked hard on their sound, and the production was fuller than ever. Even though we can only wish Gamma Ray still wrote compositions like the opener "Tribute To The Past", "No Retu

A real sequel to "Land Of The Free". We're witnessing new, drastic but obviously very well thought-out lineup changes. Dirk Schlächter, by now a legendary member of Gamma Ray, has returned to his first love, the bass

That's it. Everything that could possibly come together on one record does. A perfect ten on the exam. If "Somewhere Out In Space" was a fantastic predecessor that radiated chemistry between the band members, "Po

Imagine a miracle. After a short tour featuring songs they've never played live before, or only rarely on stage, Iron Maiden decide to put out a new live album. The setlist would include goodies like Alexander The Great, Sea Of Madness,…

»Majestic« is a real Gamma Ray album, and every fan of the band is going to be very happy with it. It's got proper steel-plated metal balls and it's blasting away in every direction. In places it's way more aggressive than its predecessor…

Apparently the band hit a particularly springy rock bottom of music-making with "Insanity And Genius", because "Land Of The Free" in 1995 was a complete turning point for them and catapulted them out of hell and straight into heaven. O