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Gamma Ray drummer Michael Ehré joins Primal Fear!
Drummer Michael Ehré of GAMMA RAY (Official) & The UNITY joins Primal Fear as their permanent new drummer with immediate effect. Michael will join the band on their summer festival tour and will record the new Primal Fear album later this year, which marks the first one under their new…
Australia’s Vanishing Point signs with new management for 6th studio album
Australian melodic/power/prog metal royalty Vanishing Point are happy to announce they have signed with new management, Hard Drive Agency. Not only will Hard Drive Agency be representing Vanishing Point for their 6th studio release, but an absolutely massive touring schedule is also in the works. Vanishing Point are no strangers…
Michael Ehré and Henjo Richter (both of GAMMA RAY) launch new band – Debut album out in spring 2017
Michael Ehré and Henjo Richter (both GAMMA RAY (Official)) launch new band – Debut album out in spring 2017 With their latest sensational signing, Hanover record imprint Steamhammer/SPV has set the course for more highlights in the coming year: UNITY, the new band founded by drummer Michael Ehré and guitarist…
KAI HANSEN To Release Debut Album
KAI HANSEN, earMUSIC, and WACKEN Foundation are happy to announce the release of XXX, the first “solo project” album by Kai Hansen, one of the most influential guitarists and singers to emerge from Germany during the first part of the ’80s. First with ground-breaking band HELLOWEEN (of which Hansen is…
Gamma Ray + Serious Black + Neonfly @ O2 Academy Islington, London
Gamma Ray + Serious Black + Neonfly @ O2 Academy Islington, London 8th December 2015 Review by Oliver M. Photography by Inty Malcolm Please follow and like us:
GAMMA RAY now has two vocalists; Welcome Frank Beck!
German power metallers GAMMA RAY have recruited Frank Beck as their second lead singer. A posting on the band’s official web site states: “From now, on the vocals there will be Mr. Kai Hansen as usual plus and welcome please Mr. Frank Beck with whom the band has done already…
HELLOWEEN – Vocalist Andi Deris
HELLOWEEN – Vocalist Andi Deris INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJALA Helloween is a German band founded in 1984 in Hamburg. The band is one of the pioneers of the power metal genre and their albums KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS I & II, MASTER OF THE RINGS and THE TIME OF THE…
Summer Breeze 2014 – Dinkelsbuhl, Germany
Metal, beer and bratwurst are the unholy alliance at German metal festivals. Those festivals are those things that every banger has to experiment once in lifetime. Even though festivals are packed by those obvious and quaranteed bands on the bill, but missing the true metal feeling is something. Summer Breeze has…
GAMMA RAY and Rhapsody of Fire live in Helsinki
23’rd of April 2014 CLUB TAVASTIA, HELSINKI REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY MARKO SYRJALA AND ARTO LEHTINEN The Gamma Ray / Rhapsody of Fire package tour was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated power metal gigs in the spring in Finland. Gamma Ray just released their album EMPIRE OF THE UNDEAD…
BLACKWELDER Stream New Song
BLACKWELDER, the brand new metal experience featuring some of the top names in power prog metal today, streaming the brand new song ‘The Night Of New Moon‘. The band is currently recording and mixing its as-yet-untitled album for a late 2014 release via GoldenCore/ZYX Music. The CD will be mixed…
IRON SAVIOR vocalist/guitarist Piet Sielck
Interview with vocalist/guitarist Piet Sielck Interview by EvilG Piet Sielck is one of those interesting guys who has been around and played and recorded with just about all of my favorite bands. Any opportunity to pick his brain about his excellent band, Iron Savior, and the German Power metal scene,…
GAMMA RAY ‘Empire Of The Undead’ Tracklist and artwork
‘Empire Of The Undead‘ will be released as CD, LP, Limited edition CD with extra visual content and a box that features the CD, a shirt and a poster. The new album follows the success of ‘To The Metal’ which brought GAMMA RAY back in the highest positions of the sales charts…
GAMMA RAY: Power Metal Icons To Release Empire Of The Undead This Spring Via earMUSIC/Armoury Records; Studio Burns Down – Band Marches On
Finally, the eleventh studio album from power metal icons, GAMMA RAY, is nearing completion! Titled Empire Of The Undead, it is the record that almost wasn’t. Penned throughout 2013 with Eike Freese at the mixing desk supporting the ever-precious work of bass player and co-writer, Dirk Schlaechter, the band had…
GAMMA RAY to release “Empire Of The Undead” in March 2014
It’s more or less done, the wait is over. Finally, the 11th studio album from GAMMA RAY “Empire Of The Undead” is almost* done and ready to go. “Empire Of The Undead” the fast metal song in the typical GAMMA RAY style that has influenced so many bands around the…