Gamma Ray will do five shows at the start of 2011 in North America. These will be the only dates the band play in North America all year. Tickets are on sale through
Enterthevault.com.
As a special bonus, the band will offer VIP meet & greet tickets which give the fan entrance to the venue 1 hour before doors and a special meet & greet with Gamma Ray. It has now been confirmed by the band and management that it can take place.
Gamma Ray's upcoming show in Madrid on October, 8th 2005 was moved to another venue: the concert now will take place in La Riviera which has a capacity of 2.600 ppl.
Besides, "Mägo de Oz"! will not play this show together with the Rays as they changed their management recently and decided to play Madrid only beginning of 2006.
Gamma Ray fans around, what about kicking the latest album Majestic to the top of the Metal Storm Awards 2005 ? If in your opinion this is where Majestic deserves to be, click here to vote for the album in the category Best Power Metal Album til end of February ! Thanx...
The first shows for Gamma Ray's upcoming world tour have been announced. At the moment, only european and japanese dates have been scheduled. Watch out for more dates to follow soon...
Next monday, on July 11th 2005, there will be a Listening-Session for the new Gamma Ray album Majestic at Headbangers Ballroom in Hamburg. The session is supposed to play the entire album and will start at 21:00. If the band will be there as well is not for sure yet...
Last Sunday on the ferry boat from Stockholm to Helsinki Henjo was badly injured falling down a stairway. He suffered strong bruises which made it impossible for him to play the upcoming shows. He was directly delivered to a hospital in Helsinki where he was examined and treated with strong painkillers. Now Henjo is at home in Hamburg for recovery but he hopes to be able to jump on the running tour again soon. The band hopes that he's back already for the Gothenburg show but can't promise it. Latest for the show in Moscow Henjo will be back on stage. In the meantime he's replaced by Kasperi Heikkinen from the finnish Gamma Ray tribute band Guardians Of Mankind. Kasperi is the second member of Guardians Of Mankind beside Keyboarder Eero Kaukomies who joines the Gamma Ray line up on the Majestic tour.
We all wish Henjo a good and fast recovery!
Henjo's eye surgery went better than expected. Nevertheless Henjo cannot play the shows in Lichtenfels, Prag, Langen and Saarbrücken. The band decided to engage guitar player Kasperi Heikkinen from Finland again to play the four shows mentioned above. Kasperi already replaced Henjo for a few shows in 2006.
Gamma Ray has been confirmed for the Wacken Open-Air Festival which takes place from 3.8.2006 til 5.8.2006.
It is not yet clear, on which day and at which billing-position Gamma Ray will enter the stage.
We just got the following information: "Yesterday we stopped selling tickets for Gamma Ray. We sold out show - 1500 sold tickets." Thanks to you all and see you in Prague!!!
Gamma Ray will do an in-store autograph and signing-session in Stockholm at Sound Pollution Stora Nygatan 18, Gamla Stan on Saturday January 14th at 2 PM.
Two more shows for the US have been confirmed.
"Favourites of the crowd, German melodic metallists GAMMA RAY have just confirmed they are going to join us at Masters of Rock 2010! You´ve got this exclusive chance to enjoy their speedmetal tempest which fits to the festival atmosphere so damn well. Their gig in March is totally sold-out so this is the next opportunity to behold this always well-tuned band live at Masters!"
Gamma Ray have been confirmed for this year's Ragnarok Festival in Perth Scotland.
Due to a Retina-Detachment, Henjo had to go to hospital yesterday and will undergo surgery today.
Therefore the shows in Saarbrücken and Langen will NOT take place as planned. The show in Langen will be moved to the following Monday the 22nd of march. Saarbrücken will be on tuesday the 23rd of March.
The shows in Lichtenfels and Prague will happen as planned.
Gamma Ray has been confirmed for another two festivals during this summer: Gods of Metal in Milano, Italy and Monsters of Rock in Kavarna, Bulgaria.
Germany's fun-metal-band Edguy had a very special guest participation during their last Rocket-Ride european concert yesterday in Fulda, Germany: Gamma Ray guitarist Henjo Richter entered the stage for the second encore "Avantasia" and thus was celebrated and welcomed by 2.000 enthusiastic metal-heads who saw an excellent performance of Henjo.
Pictures of this event coming soon...
Hi everybody,
after a successful year which contained the release of our actual Majestic album and a large tour across Europe, Middle and South America as well as Japan we just want to thank you all for your great support. We really appreciate that and hope to see as many as possible of you on the road next year when we continue our tour in Scandinavia, Russia, North America and some festivals throughout the summer.
A merry x-mas and a happy new year to all of you!
Cheeerrzzz, Kai, Dirk, Henjo and Daniel
Release Date: January, 29th 2010
To The Metal! will be released via earMUSIC. EarMUSIC is a project of Edel.
The new Gamma Ray offering is thoroughbred and classy, fast-paced and deep, and holds a few surprises in store which distinguish the band from the mass of acts who try their hand at similar styles and sounds.
Gamma Ray has been confirmed as headliner of Rock-Harz Festival in Osterode, Germany on July, 8th.
The venue for the St. Petersburg show changed from Yubileiny to LDM.
Gamma Ray has been confirmed for the Sziget-Open-Air Festival which takes place from 9.8.2006 'til 16.8.2006 in Budapest (HU).
Gamma Ray's time to enter the stage will be on Friday, August 11th at 9.30 pm on the Hammerworld-Stage for a 90 minutes killer-set! Do not miss!
Finally, six shows for the US and Canada have been confirmed.
Unfortunately, the entire Monsters Of Rock Festival in Bulgaria had to be canceled.
Gamma Ray have been confirmed (beside Helloween, Edguy, Masterplan among others) for the 4th Masters Of Rock Festival which takes place from July 14th-16th 2006 in Vizovice, Czech Republic.
Unfortunately, Gamma Ray's upcoming show in Nagano (JP) on December 3rd had to be canceled.
According to the local promoter "the concert has to regrettably been cancelled due to the collapse of business in Brain, the organizer for the concerts. We sincerely apologize for the cancellation.
The Rays will film their Montreal Show on May 06th for a double DVD which is scheduled for a release in September. In addition to the concert which will be filmed with several cameras the DVD will contain lots of bonus stuff like a roadmovie (the band will be accompanied by a cameraman for the complete North American tour), a history part, behind the scenes footage, video clips etc. So if you're able to visit the show don't miss it because it's your chance to be on the next Gamma Ray release.
Gamma Ray have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Atarfe Vega Rock festival, set to take place March 10-11, 2006 at Nave Medina Elvira in Atarfe, Granada, Spain. Other bands scheduled to appear at the festival include Twisted Sisters, Masterplan, In Extremo, Monsorrow, Behemoth and To/die/for. Gamma Ray will play on the second day, March 11th...
On November, 5th the brasilian band Angra celebrated its 14th anniversary with a very special and extended show in Sao Paulo.
"...nevertheless, nothing of that would diminish the more than special participation in the festivities of a true living legend. Kai Hansen, former Helloween guitar player/singer and currently leading Gamma Ray, showed up on the stage to sing Temple Of Hate with the band. He was clearly amazed by the audience reaction to his presence and would come to the stage again to play guitar and sing during the execution of the Helloween hit I Want Out. People went nuts..."
At last! Gamma Ray has finally got around to giving us something incredible to watch: after this year?s US tour the boys from Hamburg decided it was high time for a proper double DVD. It simply isn't enough to excel on stage. No, the boys wanted to dazzle the fans, amuse them and update them with interesting news tit bits.
Totally unfazed by the omnipresent football world cup and the prevailing hot summer weather, this active quartet viewed hours of movie footage. Now they are nearly finished with their brand new visual masterpiece with the, erm, slightly different title: "Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome (and the Finnish keyboarder who didn't want to wear his Donald Duck costume) Live In Montreal"
Next to a magical performance on 6th May in Medley, Montral/Canada, there's tons of great behind-the-scenes footage, courtesy of camera man Markus Kreuz, who accompanied the band at all times. The band allowed the camera to run 24/7, resulting in a plethora of impressions, ranging from country and people, to profound comments by the Nightliner-bus driver. This is truly a great road movie with and unusually intimate insight into the life of a band on the road, the tour bus, and pretty much everything else. The highs and lows, the goofy and the profound, shopping, immigration troubles, missed flights, the works' uncut and raw, and Gamma Ray are proud of it - and rightly so!
There is ample of additional material on the bonus DVD, with a big historical part, with live footage of gigs of yesteryear and backstage material from Japan and the Wacken Open Air. Last but definitely not least, there is the entire collection of the band's video-clips to be found on there. Great stuff!
Singer and guitarist Kai Hansen says:
"We have been thinking about doing a live DVD for a long time now. We simply owed it to all the loyal fans out there who have supported us for all these years. But we always lacked the time to actually execute a project of such a big dimension. Well, here you go! This is a DVD to our taste, versatile and interesting with a live-overview of Gamma Ray through the ages, while the main focus is on the albums that were produced with the current band line-up that has existed since 1998. The road movie speaks for itself, and all the great extras are also a great souvenir for us as a band to remind us of the great times so far."
So, all's well that ends well. After all the hard work of the last weeks and months, this audio visual milestone is close to completion. Here is a little taster to give you a little insight into what's yet to come.
Enjoy!!
Finally, the tourdates for Sweden, Finland and Norway have been confirmed. See tourdates for more details...
The new Gamma Ray album which is supposed to be released in late '07 will be entitled "Land Of The Free Part II".
As the title reveals, it will be a musical and conceptual continuation of the '95
Good news for all German fans: A Wacken documentary will be broadcasted via german TV on the following dates:
- August, 28th at 6.15 pm on all third programs
- October, 16th from 0.30 - 2.30 am on WDR (Rockpalast)
There also will be some W:O:A-specials on Premiere, but these dates have not been confirmed yet.
Don't miss it!
Gamma Ray will play two shows in Russia during the Majestic World-Tour. See tourdates for more details...
Finally, two shows for Australia have been confirmed.
Gamma Ray will play one show in Chile during the Majestic World-Tour.
A show for Buenos Aires, Argentina might be confirmed within the next days... stay tuned!
Unfortunately, the Ragnarok Festival in Scotland had to be canceled.
Hi Rayniacs,
after leaving you alone several weeks without any news about our DVD project we can now proudly say that the production is completely finished so that now it would be the record company's turn to bring it in the stores asap. But (unfortunately there's always a but) we were informed last week that the Sanctuary office in Berlin will be closed by the end of this year which makes it impossible to release the DVD shortly . As next we have to find a solution with the Sanctuary office in the UK which is now responsible for the release timing and if we consider all the promotional machinery which starts working in front of a release we expect that the release has to be postponed to spring 2007.
Nevertheless we continue in parallel with the songwriting and the recording of the first demos for the next album "Land Of The Free II" so that we are hopefully be able to bring two new releases in stores during next year.
I know these are sad news for all of you who have waited since month for the release and expected to watch the DVD at the latest under the x-mas tree. But you can be sure that we're also very disappointed with the actual situation and work hard on a solution for the release. As soon as the situation is clarified we will be back with more news.
Thanks for your patience and keep your heads up high!
Cheeerzzz from da Rayzzzz
Dear All,
in our latest statement regarding our DVD release we have probably evoked the impression that it's Sanctuary's sole fault that the DVD has not been released yet. This is not correct.
The original plan was to release it in September, which Sanctuary could not hold, because the whole postproduction process took the band and the Videocompany longer than we expected. This was due to the Bands live activities and other factors that you could sum up as: we were too slow on everything.... Now that we are ready to finalise the master, we have to face the fact that the Berlin Office of Sanctuary, which has always done a good job for us, will be closed. So, as mentioned in our previous Statement, we now have to check out how the DVD will be released and promoted and make a new plan. We are sorry for having caused confusion with our latest Statement and if anyone wants to put the blame on someone for not having 'Hellyeah...' in their DVD player by now, put it on us.... Anyhow it's gonna come and we'll surely keep you updated.
Thank you and Metal Cheerzzz from Da Rrrayzzzz
Dear Friends,
...it's been a while since you've had some news from the band and since there's been a lot of questions asked by many, we thought the time is right to give you an update from the Gammaray Camp.
About the DVD: The current status is that everything is ready so far, except for the 'Home Video' part of the Bonus section. We have made our way through quite a bit of tapes, CD's, DVD's etc. filmed by ourselves, friends, fans, crew and so on and there's a lot of material that had to be converted, cut and edited. Yesterday I spoke to the Videocompany and they told me that it was layed on ice for two weeks because they had two other shootings to do, but we should get a viewing copy by the end of the week.... let's see. This thing seems to be turning into a never ending story... sh*t, we just want to say 'done' now and announce a release date... which hopefully is going to be before summer
Gamma Ray's official South America fanclub, the FangFace-Clan, has founded a Gamma Ray community on orkut with already more than 8.000 members, news, discussions, polls and a lot more. Join them now!
As already rumoured during the last couple of weeks, it is now confirmed that GAMMA RAY will team up with HELLOWEEN on their upcoming European tour! The tour will kick off mid of November this year, and the line up will be completed by 1-2 additional acts.
Apart from very few festival appearances, this will be the first time ever both bands touring together and bears the possibility of Kai Hansen -GAMMA RAY leader and ex- HELLOWEEN member- entering the stage to jam one or the other classic Helloween-song with his former band mates!
"This is going to be a historical event for all Helloween fans, we are looking forward to have Kai and his band on our tour with us", states Helloween guitarist Michael Weikath.
Tourdates will be announced soon...
An italian Gamma Ray community was founded and can be joined @
gamma-ray.forumcommunity.netThe spanish dates of the upcoming European tour have been confirmed.
The upcoming Gamma Ray album "Land Of The Free Pt. II" will contain the following tracks with a total running time of around 65 minutes. The order of the songs might not be the final one.
1. RISING AGAIN 0:28
2. TO MOTHER EARTH 5:09
3. EMPRESS 6:22
4. RAIN 5:20
5. INTO THE STORM 3:45
6. WHEN THE WORLD 5:43
7. FROM THE ASHES 5:30
8. LEAVING HELL 4:20
9. REAL WORLD 5:44
10. HEAR ME CALLING 6:45
11. OPPORTUNITY 7:15
12. INSURRECTION 11:30
The rumour pot had been stirred only for a short while, now it's already official: Gamma Ray from Hamburg have signed with Steamhammer / SPV. Their latest album, Land Of The Free Pt. II, is scheduled for release on 19 November 2007 (Germany: 16 November 2007, US: January 2008). Band founder Kai Hansen expressed his delight at the signing: "Following our previous record company's well-documented restructuring process, we increasingly felt that it would be better to embark on a new course business-wise. The preparations for our joint tour with Helloween spawned the idea to follow Helloween's example and work with Steamhammer/SPV in future. We feel certain that this cooperation will give an extra boost to our career."
"Land Of The Free Pt. II" is scheduled for release on
19 November 2007 in Europe,
16 November 2007 in Germany,
21 November 2007 in Japan and
January 2008 in the US.
The japanese dates of the upcoming tour have been confirmed.
Dirk managed to convince his italian friend Alessio Gori who is, by the way, the leadsinger and keyboarder of the band Flashback of Anger to join Gamma Ray as keyboarder on their upcoming tour in Japan and Europe.
The show in Athens, Greece has been moved to Cultural Center Hellinikos Kosmos. Unfortunately, the show in Bukarest on November, 19th had to be cancelled.
Two weeks ago, Gamma Ray shot a promo video for the new album Land Of The Free II. Click
here to check this clip for the song Into The Storm.
There is also a little update in the tour schedule: the show in Belgrad was moved to the venue SKC and there is a new confirmed show for Spain on 17.01.2008 in Lugo.
Gamma Ray's new record company SPV Records has created the first official myspace site of the band so that the steadily growing myspace Online-Community finally can add the band to their personal friendlist. You can find this new page here. Please note that all other Gamma Ray pages which can be found in the myspace network are only private Fan Pages and
gammaraymyspace is the only official one.
Gamma Ray's latest album "Land Of The Free II" entered the charts in
Germany on position 54,
in Sweden on position 57 and
in Norway on position 98.
Thanx a lot to everybody for the big support!
The latest issues of the german heavy rock magazines Breakout (6/07) and Heavy (12/07) are featuring Gamma Ray in form of a split title story together with Helloween.
Sir Jay and Kai Hansen hold no punches discussing metal history and the new album "Land Of The Free II" How....find out.....go to
www.spv.de/tv!
Gamma Ray have been confirmed to perform on the Evolution-Festival in Italy.
On April, 21st 2008, Gamma Ray's latest album Land Of The Free II will be released worldwide as a double-gatefold vinyl special-edition.
Gamma Ray have been confirmed to headline this year's Raismes-Fest in France.
Helloween and Gamma Ray will embark on the North American leg of the "Hellish Rock Tour 2008" in September / October.
Check out the Trailer for the upcoming DVD Hell Yeah @
www.spv.de/gammaray/gammaray_trailer.htmlGamma Ray has started working on new Material for the next studioalbum, which is planed to be released in late autumn. Next Tour will probably start in November. See Ya!!!
The official YouTube channel "gammarayorg" startet today. We uploaded all official videos and we hope to provide you interesting Gamma Ray videos in the future. Stay tuned!!
www.youtube.com/user/gammarayorgThe new Gamma Ray Album "To The Metal" will be released on January 29th, 2010 by "ear MUSIC" (a project of "Edel")!
The new album Majestic entered some international charts at position
#20 in Sweden,
#28 in Finland,
#33 in Czech Republic,
#39 in Germany and
#169 in France...
thanx to everyone for the great support!
Two more shows of the american tour have been confirmed. Gamma Ray will play in Mexiko, for more details please check the tourdates.
The release of GammaRay's new album Majestic was re-scheduled for an earlier date. Now you will find the CD in your local record stores on September 23rd. So, three days less to suffer :-)
Due to a wrong date on All-Access website there were some confusions about on which day Gamma Ray will play on Monsters Of Rock Festival in Bulgaria.
The gig will take place on August, 27th 2005 and NOT on the 28th like it was wrongly announced on the tour agency's homepage. Sorry for the confusion.
GammaRay will play on Monsters Of Rock Festival in Bulgaria on August, 27th 2005.
Kai and Henjo headed off for Japan yesterday for one week of intensive promotion of GammaRay's upcoming album Majestic.
The support for Gamma Ray's upcoming european tour has been confirmed: The bands Nocturnal Rites and Powerwolf will join The Rays on the road.
The support for Gamma Ray's upcoming european tour has been confirmed: The bands Nocturnal Rites and Powerwolf will join The Rays on the road.
The GammaRay show in Slovakia on October 1st 2005 which was supposed to take place in Banska Bystrica was moved to Zloven City, Sport Hall.
As you might already know, Kai Hansen will play together with the band Stormwarrior on the Earthshaker-Fest on July 23rd. The setlist is supposed to contain all classics from the early Helloween days.
The band will play on the Event Stage from 22:15 til 23:00.
The new Gamma Ray Album Majestic will contain the following tracks:
1. My Temple 4:57
2. Fight 3:24
3. Strange World 5:03
4. Hell Is Thy Home 4:46
5. Blood Religion 6:53
6. Condemned To Hell 4:56
7. Spiritual Dictator 5:38
8. Majesty 6:23
9. How Long 4:06
10. Revelation 8:30
There also will be a bonus track on the japanese edition. Watch out
STOP!, do not get me wrong, of course Henjo will NOT join Motörhead. But he will play with the Motörhead Coverband "Nö Class" on a special festival on the occasion of Motörhead's 30th anniversary. The event will take place on July 23rd at Knust, Neuer Kamp 30, Hamburg. Do not miss it as the other Rays (although not playing) might be there as well...
On June 1st and 2nd Gamma Ray were shooting photos for the new album Majestic.
The photos were taken by the well-known photographer Stefan Malzkorn. The location for the first day was the studio of german comedian Dirk Bielefeld, also known as "Mr. Holm". The band was dressed in black with golden instruments.
For the second day, the location was the big festival room of Atlantic Hotel Hamburg to provide a real majestic atmosphere.
Soon we will have some pix here on the site... The coverartwork by Herve has also been finished, only some slight changes still have to be done by Henjo before we can put it on the site. So stay tuned...
The new GammaRay album MAJESTIC will be mastered this week at Finnvox Studios Helsinki, Finnland by Mikko Karmila & Kai Hansen.
Gamma Ray have recently finished the final mixing of their new album which was recorded at the Hansen Studios in Hamburg. The album includes 11 tracks which represent all of the characteristic strengths of the bands musical career to date. The album title is 'MAJESTIC' and is scheduled for a release late September. Until then the band will undertake worldwide promotional activities and in parallel they also have to move their Hamburg studio to a new location because the actual building will be completely rebuilt this summer.
The album release will be followed by a worldwide headline tour which is in the planning stage at the moment.
Stay tuned for more information soon...
Since some weeks, Gamma Ray have been very busy starting to record their new studio album which will be entitled "Majestic". More news follow soon!
"Deadly Radiation in Hamburg, Germany: GAMMA RAY!
In November the all-star ensemble Avantasia will embark on their first worldwide indoor arena tour ever and write a new chapter in Heavy Metal history. Kicking off in Pratteln, Switzerland on November 30th the all-star project will set off on a three-week-journey to bring the prestigious Metal Opera event to three different continents around the planet.