In reality this is a Helloween album. I think it’s Kai Hansen playing guitars and then the sound is more “Helloween”.
So, I’ve just been over to Wikipedia and I’m not sure what’s going on. This album is named for Gamma Ray on my music collection but it isn’t in the list of titles by Gamma Ray on their Wikipedia page. This means it might really be by Helloween [which is almost the same thing].
Fuck. It’s not on the Helloween Wikipedia page either. That’s me a bit bollocksed there then. Now the next thing is to search for the title rather than the band name. Perhaps I’ll try Kai Hansen.
Now I’m lost. It’s not on his page either.
The album is playing as I write this and bugger me if they haven’t covered “Death Or Glory” by a NWOBHM band which I’ve heard many times on a album collated by Lars Ulrich. However, the search isn’t going well to figure out this album because now I’ve search for “Death Or Glory” and all I’m getting is a song by The Clash and it’s NOT THAT ONE.
The next song has started and it’s a ballad bullshit thing. It’s called Lost Angels and sounds like it too.
Right, I’ve solved the Death Or Glory problem, it#s by a band called Holocaust, of course it is.
Back to searching for the album artist that I’m listening to at the moment. This review is causing pain and effort. Originally I was just going to write:
It’s typical Helloween and I haven’t listened to it much.
Jesus! That took some time. But now I’ve found it. The album is actually an EP with only a couple of new songs and some live versions of other songs. Here’s the Wikipedia page. Oh, it has three sides to the EP. Because, of course it does.
My next challenge is to try and find the NWOBHM compilation that Lars Ulrich put together as there’s a load of great songs on it.
On my previous communication I forgot to mention that I have finally completed the L section of the reviews and now I’m on the M bit, I mean I know it’s obvious but it feels like an achievement.