Gamma Ray

[Skullface]

Es sollten noch erwähnt sein, das sein Sohn ein Emo ist und nicht wirklich auf Metal steht (zumindest von dem, was ich aus erster Hand weiß).

Das erklärt auch warum Kai jetzt so aussieht

[The Trooper]

Also ich habe ihm in Juni aufm Judas Priest Konzert getroffen, und er sieht wieder aus wie zu den To The Metal/Skeletons & Majesties Zeiten.

[Quebec-weekend-warrior89]

Don't judge a book by its cover!

[The Trooper]

SIGH NO MORE (ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
VÖ: 25.9.
25 years of Gamma Ray – 25 years of heavy metal from Hamburg: what started out in spring 1990 with the release of their debut album Heading For Tomorrow has achieved international fame a quarter of a century later. Tours around the globe with sold-out shows in the US, Canada, South America, Asia and the whole of Europe plus appearances at the most renowned festivals worldwide – vocalist/guitarist Kai Hansen’s band has long taken the world by storm. Their success is based on more than two dozen recordings, among them eleven studio albums, a number of live releases, DVDs, EPs and singles, which have earned Gamma Ray high chart positions on a regular basis. So it comes as no surprise that the group’s ever-growing fan base turns out in hordes wherever they play. And of course the top 15 position of their current release “Empire Of The Undead” and an album-of-the-month nomination in Metal Hammer and Rock Hard magazines prove unmistakably: Gamma Ray continue to be on the top rung!
In view of this impressive stocktaking on the occasion of their anniversary, there’s a special reason to rejoice for their international fan community: the band’s full back catalogue will be rereleased over the course of a year. All albums will be available as premium-quality digipaks including newly designed cover artwork. To cut a long story short: Gamma Ray are celebrating their anniversary in style, and all their fans are invited!
When Gamma Ray started to work on their second studio album Sigh No More in spring 1991, the international heavy metal scene had just been plunged into their first and at the same time most serious crisis to date. Grunge was the flavour of the day and musicians sporting checked shirts and a grubby street look were fast becoming the new stars. At the beginning of September 1991, Nirvana’s hit ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ arrived on the scene and Kurt Cobain became the icon of a new musical genre. The old heroes were considered outdated, or at least so it seemed for some time.
Gamma Ray’s sophomore album “Sigh No More” sure didn’t sound outdated.
The Gamma Ray line-up consisting of Hansen, Ralf Scheepers, Dirk Schlächter, Uwe Wessel & Uli Kusch rented a holiday cottage on the Danish island of Rømø. They took only their “hand luggage”, i.e. drums, just a few guitars/bass guitars and small amps, as well as – to be able to record their ideas – two microphones and an ADAT recorder, a kind of predecessor of today’s digital studio programs.
Back in Hamburg, they continued to polish their ideas and started to look for the right producer. Gamma Ray had already enlisted the ideal choice for the mix of their 1990 debut Heading For Tomorrow: Tommy Newton.
During the preproduction, the band initially set about working on the songs full steam at the Karo studios in Brackel near Hamburg. Newton contributed his extensive experience to turn Sigh No More into a powerful and harmonious album and even tried new and unusual approaches.
When the album was released on 21 September 1991, the highlights were soon identified: the opener ‘Changes’ became a Gammy Ray classic, just like ‘Dream Healer’, the longest track on the album, and ‘One With The World’, supported by the first Sigh No More video clip, shot in the sand dunes on Rømø. ‘Rich And Famous’ was extremely popular, and the initially slightly inconspicuous ‘The Spirit’ developed into an insider’s tip among fans.
The 2015 anniversary re-release of Sigh No More includes, along with the ten original tracks, perfectly remastered by producer/sound engineer Eike Freese (Dark Age, Deep Purple), a number of previously unreleased recordings from the re-recordings with Kai on vocals, home demos and the pre-production at the Karo studios (among them ‘Heroes’, which later became the opener ‘Changes’), plus a number of selected live cuts.
Tracklist
CD1 – Studio album
The original studio album including its B-Sides. Remastered in 2015 by Eike Freese.
1. Changes
2. Rich And Famous
3. As Time Goes By
4. (We Won't) Stop The War
5. Father And Son
6. One With The World
7. Start Running
8. Countdown
9. Dream Healer
10. The Spirit
11. Sail On (Live)*
12. Changes (Live)
*Japanese Bonus Track
CD2 – Bonus CD
Including previously unreleased demo versions, alternative versions, instrumentals, live songs...
1. One With The World (Live at Wacken 2011)
2. Dream Healer (Live in Montreal 2006)
3. Changes (Blast From The Past version)
4. Rich And Famous (Blast From The Past version)
5. One With The World (Blast From The Past version)
6. Dream Healer (Blast From The Past version)
7. Heroes (Preproduction) **Alternative version of "Changes"
8. Dream Healer (Preproduction)
9. As Times Goes By (Preproduction – Kai on vocals)
10. (We Won’t) Stop The War (Preproduction – Kai on vocals)
11. Dream Healer (Demo – Kai on vocals)
12. Rich And Famous (Demo – Kai on vocals)

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Sehr schön das es so weiter geht. Freue mich schon auf den Re-Release. Vielleicht gefällt mir das Album dann ja auch besser.

[Skullface]

Das Album fand ich eigentlich ganz in Ordnung, wenn ich es aber auch für das schwächste der Scheepers Alben halten. Lediglich "(We Won't) Stop The War
& "Father And Son" konnte mich nie begeistern.

Bekommt das Album auch wieder ein neues Artwork? Das Original fand ich nicht so berauschend.

[The Trooper]

Soweit ich weiß wird jedes Album bis To The Metal ein neues Artowkr erhalten. Hoffentlich behalten sie den 2 Monats Rythmus. mit den Re-Releasen. Finde das echt gut. Gerade die Bonus Tracks sind sehr reizvoll, wobei die dieses mal eher mau ausfallen.... Wird trotzdem gekauft

[Skullface]

Hoffentlich wird das Cover nicht genauso geil wie das der Neuauflage "Heading For Tomorrow", sonst ärgere ich mich noch umso mehr das ich die Alben schon hab.

[Quebec-weekend-warrior89]

Nachdem mir der Rerelease von ''Heading for Tomorrow'' sehr zugesagt hat, werde ich mir wohl auch diese neue Version von ''Sigh No More'' besorgen! Es ist gut moglich, dass ich noch zum Gamma Ray Fan werde

[The Trooper]

Haha, gefunden auf amzon.co.uk ^^
Und Heading for the East wird auch Re-Released. Ist zwar nicht bestätigt, aber amzon sind ja bekannt im INformationen leaken.

edit.: Nevermind, von der Gamma Ray Seite. Lesen sollte man können:

HEADING FOR THE EAST (ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
VÖ: 25.9.
25 years of Gamma Ray – 25 years of heavy metal from Hamburg: what started out in spring 1990 with the release of their debut album Heading For Tomorrow has achieved international fame a quarter of a century later. Tours around the globe with sold-out shows in the US, Canada, South America, Asia and the whole of Europe plus appearances at the most renowned festivals worldwide – vocalist/guitarist Kai Hansen’s band has long taken the world by storm. Their success is based on more than two dozen recordings, among them eleven studio albums, a number of live releases, DVDs, EPs and singles, which have earned Gamma Ray high chart positions on a regular basis. So it comes as no surprise that the group’s ever-growing fan base turns out in hordes wherever they play. And of course the top 15 position of their current release “Empire Of The Undead” and an album-of-the-month nomination in Metal Hammer and Rock Hard magazines prove unmistakably: Gamma Ray continue to be on the top rung!
In view of this impressive stocktaking on the occasion of their anniversary, there’s a special reason to rejoice for their international fan community: the band’s full back catalogue will be rereleased over the course of a year. All albums will be available as premium-quality digipaks including newly designed cover artwork. To cut a long story short: Gamma Ray are celebrating their anniversary in style, and all their fans are invited!
Following a thoroughly promising career start, their debut Heading For Tomorrow having caused an international stir and netted phenomenal sales figures in February 1990, Gamma Ray embarked on a major tour only a few months after the album release.
As Heading For Tomorrow turned into a commercial success particularly in Asia, Gamma Ray were still on their European tour when they received invitations to Japan: a total of four shows in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. This offer inspired their record company to have producer Steve Payne accompany the band members and their crew to the Land of the Rising Sun to record the two shows in Tokyo for a live DVD (back then, sound and image storage media were still called VHS cassettes).
Japan welcomed the new act with open arms.
During the four shows in Japan, the new Gamma Ray line-up proved to be a homogenous unit and dynamic live act. They played two nights in a row in Tokyo in front of more than 3,000 fans each and delivered the hoped-for first-rate material for their live DVD Heading For The East, which arrived at the stores in December 1990. The show’s set list consisted mainly of tracks from the debut album Heading For Tomorrow as well as the Helloween tracks ‘I Want Out’, ‘Ride The Sky’, ‘Save Us’ and ‘Freetime’, a composition which vocalist Ralf Scheepers had brought with him from his former band Tyran’ Pace.
Thanks to the 2015 anniversary re-release Heading For The East, the legendary Tokyo concert from 1990 is now available on CD for the first time, perfectly remastered by producer/sound engineer Eike Freese (Dark Age, Deep Purple).
Tracklist
Over 80 Minutes of music. For the first time as audio!
CD1
1. Intro
2. Lust For Life
3. Heaven Can Wait
4. Space Eater
5. Free Time
6. Who Do You Think You Are?
CD2 - Live
1. The Silence
2. Save Us
3. I Want Out
4. Ride The Sky / Hold Your Ground
5. Money
6. Heading For Tomorrow

Wenn man das Heading und Sigh No More Cover aneinder hält, führ der Weg auf dem HEading Cover weiter auf das Sigh Cover. Finde ich sehr cool und Hervé Monjeaud. Finde ihn als Künstler sowieso extremst genial.

[Quebec-weekend-warrior89]

Die Cover sehen stark aus! Auf das Livealbum freue ich mich auch!

[BBvideo 560,340][/BBvideo]

[The Trooper]

Ich muss ganz ehrlich sagen, das ich Heading for the East bis heute nicht kenne. Deswegen freue ich mich schon auf den 25.9.

[Quebec-weekend-warrior89]

Schau dir das Video an, was ich gerade gepostet habe und du lernst es kennen Einzig die Zwischensequenzen vom Sushi-Essen und dieser grausige Kommentator mit dem strengen britischen Akzent storen den Horgenuss. Das beste ist, dass dies beim kommenden Live-Album nicht dabei sein wird. :rock:

[eddie666]

CD1
1. Intro
2. Lust For Life
3. Heaven Can Wait
4. Space Eater
5. Free Time
6. Who Do You Think You Are?
CD2 - Live
1. The Silence
2. Save Us
3. I Want Out
4. Ride The Sky / Hold Your Ground
5. Money
6. Heading For Tomorrow

Diese CD werd ich mir dann auch besorgen. Warum kann man das Ganze nicht auf eine CD pressen? Der CD Wechsel nervt dann schon wieder. Das neue Sigh No More Cover find ich schon geil. Bleib trotzdem dabei, wegen der neuen Cover und der überflüssigen Bonus CD, werd ich mir die Scheiben nicht nochmal zulegen, da ich schon alle habe.

[Chewie]

Warum kann man das Ganze nicht auf eine CD pressen?

das Video hat eine Lauflänge von 85 Minuten

[eddie666]

das Video hat eine Lauflänge von 85 Minuten

Bei nur 12 Songs? Da ist aber viel Doku Kram zwischendurch dabei. Mit Heading for Tomorrow ist meines Wissen nur ein überlanger Song dabei!