Retrospect: Back to the year of 1988. The message causes a sensation: guitarist Kai Hansen leaves Helloween, the quintett he co-founded, which managed to move 250.000 units of KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS (Part. II) and reach goldstatus in Germany. Still all the world´s gold could not repress Hansen´s desire to realize his personal vision of modern, melodic Heavy Metal under the name of Gamma Ray (which was the songtitle of an old German band called Birth Control).
     
      As a consequence the first few albums HEADING FOR TOMORROW (1989), SIGH NO MORE (1991) and INSANITY & GENIUS (1993) , featuring the vocals of Ralf Scheepers (now with Primal Fear), had more of an experimental character, marking the obligatory quest for an unique style, that differed from Hansen´s former sphere of activity. The band´s definite style emerged at the latest with the release of LAND OF THE FREE in 1995: powerful Heavy Metal consisting of accessible melodies, anthemic sometimes epic songstructures and the unmistakable voice of the guitarplayer, who again too... (More GAMMA RAY Biography)