Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Gamma Ray - To The Metal (2010)

To The Metal is the tenth full length studio album by Gamma Ray. It was released on January 29th, 2010.
To promote To The Metal, Gamma Ray will headline a tour with Freedom Call and Secret Sphere. The album was recorded in Kai's own studio in Hamburg in autumn 2009.
The band has recorded 12 songs. Ten of them will be featured on the regular album release, while the other two will be bonus tracks and they will appear on the different editions of the album.
The band described some of the songs on the official website, revealing that there will be a full-throttle number called "Rise", a rhytmic and melodically diverse song called "Time To Live", and a multilayered anthem titled "All you need to know", featuring Michael Kiske.
Other songs mentioned are "No Need to Cry", a song written by Dirk Schlächter about the death of his father, "To The Metal", a song they played on various festivals last summer and the atmospherically dense "Empathy".

Track listing

Empathy (Hansen)
All You Need to Know (Hansen)
Time To Live (Richter)
To The Metal (Hansen)
Rise (Zimmermann)
Mother Angel (Hansen)
Shine Forever (Schlächter)
Deadlands (Hansen)
Chasing Shadows (Richter)
No Need To Cry (Schlächter)
Bonus-Tracks on different versions:
One Life (Hansen)
Wannabes (Zimmermann)

Personnel

Kai Hansen - vocals, guitar
Henjo Richter - guitars, keyboards
Dirk Schlächter - bass, vocals on "No Need to Cry"
Dan Zimmermann - drums

Guest musician
Michael Kiske - vocals on "All You Need to Know"

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