Artmania Sibiu: Gamma Ray 2

Gamma Ray was founded by Kai Hansen after drastically leaving Helloween in the late '80s. Kai formed Gamma along side Ralf Scheepers, a big Judas Priest fan from the band Tyran' Pace. The beginning of Gamma Ray was pretty much the continuence of classic Helloween material (Hansen was the founder of that band too), slowly but steadily improving themselves and their sound album to album finally achieving the power/speed metal genre crowns. In 1994 Ralf left Gamma Ray as a result of living too far away from the base camp. So it was time for Kai to take over the singing for himself just like on the first Helloween album. Ralf later formed with Mat Sinner his own band, Primal Fear. And this is where we stand right now ... Gamma's golden era with Kai on vocals which still goes on to this day...

Kai Hansen has been guest musician on albums from Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Heavens Gate, Stormwarrior among others.

In 2006 Henjo Richter was injured in a fall and replaced on tour by Kasperi Heikkinen of the Finnish Gamma Ray tribute band Guardians of Mankind, whose keyboard player Eero Kaukomies was already part of the Gamma Ray touring line-up (Eero was also drafted in as a temporary live member of Freedom Call around the same time).

Henning Basse of Metalium (Ger) filled in as vocalist on January 17th and 18th of 2008 when Kai Hansen was suffering from flu. Kai still performed in his role as guitarist.


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