GAMMA RAY

NK7 · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:52 am Post subject: GAMMA RAY

Time for some more raise-your-fist metal. Another band I'm a huge fan of, their mid/late '90ies records are absolutely awesome and Somewhere Out in Space might as well be the best modern heavy metal album ever written. Land of the Free and Powerplant are classics as well, while I can't get into Majestic and To the Metal all that much. Someone please release No World Order on vinyl thanks.
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astralvesl · Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 1216

This is a really tough one. Somewhere Out in Space is one of my favorite metal albums of all time but I went w/ Land of the Free because it just has too many great songs. I too could not get into Majestic either w/ the exception of Revelation which is probably in their top 10 songs to me. As to the rest of their newer stuff, I haven't even heard To the Metal but Land of the Free II was much better than I expected. I caught them on that tour too, w/ Helloween, tragically they played to a crowd of about 25 but both bands killed.

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Professor Black · Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 2303 Location: Evil Nation USA

I love Majestic, actually, except for the two Dan Zimmermann songs in the middle. "Blood Religion" is one of the best of the best!

I do miss the more theatrical side of the band ("Heal Me", etc.) sometimes...
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Zaephar · Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 284 Location: Behind the musgo

Haaaaaaaaaaave no feeeeeeeeeear
Rebeeeeeeeeellion is heeeeeeeeeere

Of course, Land of the Free.

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Dalen · Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 2069

Everything up to Somewhere is pretty much excellent, Powerplant is their first record with a certain decrease in quality, still a great album though and it's got Armageddon, one of their best tracks. No World Order was quite disappointing imho, Majestic was even worse but it's got Fight, one of my personal faves. I have no opinion on their last two records, didn't bother with those but I might give em a listen sometime..
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Professor Black · Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 2303 Location: Evil Nation USA

To the Metal is a lot of midtempo Painkiller-C-side stuff. LOTF2 has a handful of good tracks, especially "Empress", which is ironically a Zimmermann tune. "To Mother Earth" is kick ass too, especially the ending.

Yeah "Fight" is awesome.
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NK7 · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:39 am Post subject:

throneofmight · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 2479 Location: Costa Rica

I like their early stuff with Ralf at the helm but never ever have been able to get around the annoying vocals of Kai. Perhaps, only in the old HELLOWEEN records those vocals are just acceptable for me.

No question about the brilliancy of the music.
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The_Elite · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 2890 Location: London

First 6 albums are all killer. After that the quality goes down a bit but there are still great songs to be found on the last few records.

FengisRipRider · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:19 pm Post subject:

Somewhere out in SPace is my favorite, such catchy speeding brilliance. I like most of their albums up till no world order then it goes down hill for me.
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