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| | Somewhere Out in Space | | | Music Artist : | | Gamma Ray | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Noise | | Release Date : | | 1998-01-06 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Beyond The Black Hole
2. Men, Martians and Machines
3. No Stranger (Another Day In Life)
4. Somewhere Out In Space
5. The Guardians of Mankind
6. The Landing
7. Valley of the Kings
8. Pray
9. The Winged Horse
10. Cosmic Chaos
11. Lost in The Future
12. Watcher in the Sky
13. Rising Star Shine On
14. Return to Fantasy (bonus track)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 rock on
Submitted on: 2008-01-17 |
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| Dude, if you like that catchy heavy 80s fantasy metal with brilliantly fast solos, I know these guys won't disappoint you. There's no screaming in here. Just fast jams. This is an amazing album. They just can't go wrong |
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 Gamma Ray delivers again
Submitted on: 2007-01-15 |
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It can't have been easy for Gamma Ray to follow up their epic 1995 album Land of the Free, but with 1997's Somewhere Out in Space, the band delivered another dose of high quality power metal.
Somewhere Out in Space might not be as majestic as Land of the Free, but it's not that far behind it either. This is a very good power metal album, and definitely has that epic and melodic sound that Kai Hansen practically invented. The whole album is solid, but there are some standout tracks. The title track is a high-speed metal anthem worthy of Helloween, Valley of the Kings and Lost in the Future are epics song despite their relatively short length, Watcher in the Sky could have come from Judas Priest's Painkiller album, and Shine On is a majestic anthem. Future Freedom Call drummer Dan Zimmermann was on board for this album, and you can definitely hear elements of what would become the Freedom Call sound here.
Gamma Ray would continue their series of excellent albums with 1999's Power Plant.
I suppose it goes without saying that Gamma Ray would appeal to Helloween fans. Fans of the more recent power metal bands like Sonata Arctica, Freedom Call, Edguy and Hammerfall also owe it to themselves to check out Gamma Ray, and Somewhere Out in Space is a great album to start with. |
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A Space Odyssey
Submitted on: 2004-06-24 |
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| This is actually a progressive power metal concept album based on Arthur C Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (That's the author, the guy who directed the movie version was Stanley Kubrick). This is really good music and good vocals and just plain fun to listen to. |
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Awesome Metal!
Submitted on: 2003-09-28 |
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| Some really incredible stuff on this album. 'Beyond The Black Hole' and 'Somewhere Out In Space' are, in my opinion, among the best metal songs ever recorded. Other notables are 'Valley Of The Kings', 'Men, Martians and Machines', and 'Pray', but there's more goodies to be found here. Unfortunately, the last few songs feel a little forced. It's nice to get a CD with 14 songs, but quality is better than quantity, and there are a couple of real boners in there that kept me from giving this CD a '5'. But the good ones make it worth having in your collection. You'll never get enough of them. |
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They Smile
Submitted on: 2002-12-01 |
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| This is the album that really sold me on German power metal. I'd heard and liked Helloween(still do), but I must admit I was blown away after buying this on a whim. To newcomers, this won't sound all that extraordinary since you're probably already desensitized by the countless number of power metal clones out there. I consider this the real deal(along with Helloween and Blind Guardian....Grave Digger too I suppose) coz the grandaddy of this sound(Kai Hansen) is the leader of the group. Gamma Ray aren't the originators of this sound, Blind Guardian and Helloween existed long before, but this album is of personal significance because it was the one that really grabbed me. I think it had something to do with the intense energy and speed. I had always been a huge fan of thrash, but most of those groups(though I still love them) were always about Satan, death, disease, hate, etc. In the sleeve for this album, the band is smiling in their pictures! Very un-speed metal-like. I wish more people knew about this group in a world of extremely lame metal bands. It's scary that these guys are big in many other countries, but virtually unknown in the U.S. The ability to play instruments isn't really a necessity here. |
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