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Gamma Ray: 30 Years - Live Anniversary
Gamma Ray – Germany’s power metal institution turns 30! Gamma Ray is a heavy metal band from Hamburg, northern Germany, founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the German power metal band Helloween. Besides Dirk Schlächter (bass), Henjo Richter (guitar), Michael Ehré (drums) and Frank Beck (vocals), he is the band’s lead vocalist, guitarist and chief songwriter. Between 1990 and 2015, Gamma Ray recorded eleven studio albums. The expressive power of the band’s music is reflected in their energetic live shows. There’s hardly a renowned metal festival where Gamma Ray haven’t rocked the crowds, hardly an international magazine which hasn’t featured at least one Gamma Ray title story. For more than thirty years now, this band has delivered impressive statements of their own musical philosophy. Gamma Ray wants to invite all of you to join once more the party of their exclusive and only show in 2020 in celebration of their anniversary. In this time of Covid-19 the band was not able to play shows like they wanted to, so they decided to do a Live Streaming Event and set up a big stage in the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany. This awesome event took place on Thursday, August 27th and was streamed to all fans all over the globe. Several cameras had recorded the very best of power metal with guest keyboard player Corvin Bahn & former (and first!) Gamma Ray singer Ralf Scheepers as a very special guest! Due to Covid this concert – as you can imagine – took place without an audience. This is why Gamma Ray decided to invite the fans to send in recordings of screaming, hailing and whistling to their favourite Gamma Ray songs, which was added to the show and gave fans the chance to participate on this release!