| Gamma Ray discography | |
|---|---|
 Gamma Ray after a show in Barcelona, Spain | |
| Studio albums | 11 |
| Live albums | 4 |
| Compilation albums | 2 |
| Video albums | 3 |
| Music videos | 8 |
| Singles | 7 |
This is a discography of Gamma Ray, a German heavy metal band, formed in 1988 in Hamburg, Germany. They have released eleven studio albums, four live albums, two compilation albums, seven singles and eight music videos.
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUT [1] | BEL [2] | CH [3] | CRO [4] | CZE [5] | SPA [6] | FIN [7] | FRA [8] | GER [9] | GRE [10] | ITA [11] | JPN [12] | SWE [13] | |||||
| 1990 | Heading for Tomorrow
| — | — | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | — | 24 | 45 | |||
| 1991 | Sigh No More
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | |||
| 1993 | Insanity and Genius
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 93 | — | — | 9 | — | |||
| 1995 | Land of the Free
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 70 | — | — | 17 | — | |||
| 1997 | Somewhere Out in Space
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | 39 | — | — | 22 | 59 | |||
| 1999 | Power Plant
| 45 | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | — | 25 | — | — | 31 | 51 | |||
| 2001 | No World Order
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | 70 | 23 | — | 55 | 13 | 27 | |||
| 2005 | Majestic
| — | — | — | — | 33 | — | 28 | 169 | 39 | — | 66 | 37 | 20 | |||
| 2007 | Land of the Free II
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 194 | 54 | — | — | 30 | 57 | |||
| 2010 | To the Metal!
| — | 94 | 55 | 4 | 17 | 78 | 31 | 96 | 24 | 2 | 59 | 31 | 25 | |||
| 2014 | Empire of the Undead
| 46 | 71 | 21 | — | 5 | — | 12 | 89 | 13 | — | — | 52 | 26 | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||||||||||||||||
Kai Michael Hansen is a German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of another power metal band Helloween, which he was a part of from 1983 to 1989 and rejoined in 2016. He is a prominent figure in power metal and has sold millions of albums worldwide. He is regarded as "the godfather of power metal", having founded two seminal bands in the genre. In 2011, he joined the band Unisonic featuring former Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske. Hansen and Kiske reunited with Helloween in 2017 for a world tour with all current members, celebrating the 30-year anniversary of release of the albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Parts I and II.
Gamma Ray is a German power metal band from Hamburg, founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from power metal band Helloween, in 1989. He is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist and chief songwriter. Between 1990 and 2014, Gamma Ray recorded eleven studio albums.
Henjo Oliver Richter, is a guitarist and keyboardist in Gamma Ray, the German power metal band formed by Kai Hansen.
Michael Kiske is a German singer who is the co-lead vocalist for the power metal band Helloween. Kiske has also released four solo albums, two albums with the hard rock band Unisonic, has participated on various metal and rock related projects such as Avantasia, Place Vendome and Kiske/Somerville, and has performed with numerous bands as a guest vocalist.
Skeletons in the Closet is a live album from the German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 2003. It mostly featured songs that the band had never played live before. The setlist was voted by fans on the band's official website.
Ralf Scheepers is a German singer, the lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Primal Fear. He has also sung in Gamma Ray and Tyran' Pace. Scheepers has also provided guest vocals for the bands Avantasia, Xandria, Scanner, Therion, Ayreon and Shadow Gallery, and worked with Tom Galley on Phenomena's Blind Faith album. He currently provides instruction for all around singing, music, studio and recording/processing techniques at the RS Vocal Works in Baltmannsweiler, Germany. Writer Paul Stenning has described him as "the greatest example of strength in metal."
Slayer was an American thrash metal band formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, who recruited vocalist and bassist Tom Araya, and drummer Dave Lombardo. Slayer's first two albums, Show No Mercy (1983) and Hell Awaits (1985), which were released on Metal Blade Records, did not chart in the United States. The band was then signed to Def Jam Recordings by Rick Rubin, who produced Reign in Blood (1986). The album helped Slayer break into the Billboard 200 for the first time, peaking at number 94. After South of Heaven (1988), Slayer signed to Rubin's new label, Def American, and released Seasons in the Abyss (1990). After the album was released, Lombardo departed Slayer and was replaced by Paul Bostaph.
Heading for Tomorrow is the first studio album released by German metal band Gamma Ray on 26 February 1990 by Noise Records. In 2002 it was re-released with a different cover as part of the Ultimate Collection box-set. This re-released version of the album has also been released separately from the box-set.
Daniel Hans Erwin Zimmermann is a retired heavy metal drummer. Dan is best known as having been the drummer of German power metal bands Gamma Ray and Freedom Call from 1997 to 2012. He was a founding member of Freedom Call, from which he departed in 2010. Two years later he also left Gamma Ray, announcing a rest from the music business in 2012.
Dirk Schlächter is the bassist of the power metal band Gamma Ray.
Live from Radio City Music Hall is a double album by the British heavy metal group Heaven & Hell which was released in 2007. The set is a chronicle of the group's performance on 30 March 2007 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Hell Yeah or Hell Yeah! may refer to:
The Devil You Know is the only studio album by heavy metal band Heaven & Hell; the members had previously recorded as a group in an earlier line-up of Black Sabbath. The Devil You Know was Ronnie James Dio's final studio album prior to his death in May 2010.
Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome ) is a live album from the German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 2008.
The Frozen Tears of Angels is the eighth studio album by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. It was released on April 30, 2010 via Nuclear Blast. It is the first album to be released after a long hiatus, caused by a legal dispute with the band's previous label, Magic Circle Music. The concept album is the third chapter of The Dark Secret Saga, which began with Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret.
To the Metal! is the tenth full-length studio album by Gamma Ray. It was released on 29 January 2010. To promote the album, the band did a tour with Freedom Call and Secret Sphere. The album was recorded in Kai's own studio in Hamburg in autumn 2009. The band has recorded 12 songs. Ten of them were featured on the regular album release, while the other two were bonus tracks appearing on the different editions of the album. The band described some of the songs on the official website, revealing that there would be a full-throttle number called "Rise", a rhythmic and melodically diverse song called "Time To Live", and a multilayered anthem titled "All you need to know", featuring ex-Helloween frontman Michael Kiske. Other songs mentioned are "No Need to Cry", a song written by Dirk Schlächter about the death of his father, "To The Metal", a song they played on various festivals before the album release and the atmospheric and dense "Empathy". It is the last album featuring drummer Dan Zimmermann.
The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria is a live video with performances by Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, the "big four" of American thrash metal. The concert took place on June 22, 2010, at the Sonisphere Festival at Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria. It was shown at 450 movie theaters in the United States and over 350 movie theaters across Europe, Canada, and Latin America on June 22, 2010.
Heading for the East was recorded in 1990 by the German power metal band Gamma Ray following the release of their album Heading for Tomorrow.
Skeletons & Majesties Live is the fourth live album of the metal band Gamma Ray. The album was recorded during Gamma Ray's 2011 concert in Pratteln (Switzerland) and contains acoustic renditions of the songs Rebellion in Dreamland and Send Me a Sign as well as the guest appearance of then ex-Helloween and Unisonic vocalist Michael Kiske on 3 tracks.