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 ...
Advantages: Accessible, VOCALS, catchy, good quality, intelligent theme, variation, song structure, introductions, guitar work Disadvantages: a little hectic for some
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 ...
Gamma: Davey Pattison (vocals); Ronnie Montrose (guitar); Jim Alcivar (synthesizer); Glen Letsch (bass); Denny Carmassi (drums). Additional personnel: Genya Ravan (vocals). Originally released on Elektra Records.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Meanstreak
2.
Four Horsemen
3.
Dirty City
4.
Voyager
5.
Something In The Air
6.
Cat On A Leash
7.
Skin And Bone
8.
Mayday
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04/08/2005
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