METALIUM's BASSE To Sing For GAMMA RAY In Spain
January 17, 2008According to the Spanish web site Rafabasa.com, METALIUM singer Henning Basse will perform with GAMMA RAY in Lugo (Jan. 17) and Baracaldo (Jan. 18),Spain. GAMMA RAY frontman Kai Hansen has had a terrible flu since yesterday (Wednesday, January 16) and doctors have ordered him not to sing for the next two days so that he can recover as soon as possible. Kai will play guitar in Lugo and Baracaldo but sadly won't be able to sing. The vocal duties will be handled by his friend Henning, who has flown to Spain to assist with the shows.
It is not presently clear if Kai will be able to sing for GAMMA RAY in Madrid (Jan. 19) and Granada (Jan. 20).
A recent interview with Kai Hansen conducted by "Sir Jay" of SPV-TV can be viewed below.
GAMMA RAY's new album, "Land of the Free II", entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 54. The CD, which will arrive in the U.S. later this month via SPV Records, also landed on the Swedish chart at No. 57 and Norwegian chart at No. 98.
"Land of the Free II" is a conceptual continuation of the group's 1995 classic "Land of the Free", and contains around 65 minutes of music.
The members of GAMMA RAY produced the new album themselves. All four musicians — Kai Hansen, Henjo Richter (guitar),Dirk Schlächter (bass) and Daniel Zimmermann (drums) — are experienced enough to translate their ideas at the studio. But for the first time in ages, the band allowed themselves the luxury of enlisting outside support for certain stages of the recording process. "We wanted to have a clear head in some areas to be able to concentrate on the important things," Hansen explained the decision to recruit Tommy Newton (HELLOWEEN, UFO, etc.) and his Area 51 studio in Celle, where the new material was mixed. Newton also took care of the drum parts as a sound engineer at GAMMA RAY's own studio.
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