Gamma Vol.2 - Gamma

Advantages: Very catchy songs.
Disadvantages: The production is not perfect.

...ends again with the chorus repeated 2 times, with Ralf screaming 'stoooooooorm' for about 7 seconds in the end. 4: The cave principle - Gamma Ray always put a rollercoaster track on their album that changes tempo all the time and this is that track of this album. This song is actually about the philosopher Sokrates thoughts on live. This song has no actual chorus, but it has very many catchy parts and is one of the better songs on the album. In the end "Never, we will never, we will never return to a place called home" repeated a lot of times with a mystical guitarsound making it enter your mind for good. 5: Future Madhouse - This songs starts of extremly fast with a crazy sounding guitaranthem. The song is about having hangover the day after a mad night. This track was also strangly released as a single, it's a quite good track, but I... Read review

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Advantages: Great album from start to finnish
Disadvantages: none

...I just have to review this album, since it's one of my all-time favorite albums! I hardly never listened to Heavy Metal before I got this album, but 2-3 months after i bought this, I bought all Gamma Ray albums that were available at that time. From the day on i bought this album I consider myself becoming a true metalhead ;)I guess here are some people that never heard of Gamma Ray?? As a lot of you older headbangers know, Kai Hansen - the leadguitarist of Helloween, left the band in 1988 and started a new band called Gamma Ray. Kai Hansen is the only man that is still in Gamma Ray after they started in 1989, but for the last 4 years the setup has been stable. Ok, let's leave the history lession behind and start talking about the music! The music reminds you a bit of 80s metal á la Iron Maiden, Manowar, Helloween... but this album... Read review

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Advantages: Accessible, VOCALS, catchy, good quality, intelligent theme, variation, song structure, introductions, guitar work
Disadvantages: a little hectic for some

.... It doesn't sound repetitive, though. Gamma Ray's songs generally do not clock in too long, which would in most instances probably ruin them. In a realm where song structure is sped up to probably about double the pace of conventional heavy metal at times, it's imperative that the composer keeps originality and refrains from repeating too much. The second song, dubbed 'Fight' or by some 'Carry on' starts out quite differently, with an orchestral type synth sound that builds to furious drumming. We get some singing here, and then almost an opera-esque chorus with more singing. The drums here don't let up much. 'Strange World' is a slightly slower song than the others. It starts with some piano/guitar chord mix, then introduces a riff sequence, which is still slower than the rest. The singing and chorus once again alternate, but come together... Read review

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