Gamma Ray – Kai Hansen Sits down with Metal Temple
In an interview recently conducted by Metal Temple’s Georgia, German Power metallers GAMMA RAY’s frontman, Kai Hansen, revealed that the band’s next album will be in the same direction as their “Land Of The Free” (1995) release which had gained the band a high level status in the ranks of Power Metal when it was released. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
- Metal Temple: You have created a milestone in Power Metal with Gamma Ray’s “Land Of The Free”. Do you think that creating such a masterpiece so early in your career was a blessing or a curse?
- Kai Hansen: “It is definitely both. It brought the band very high respect and it showed that Gamma Ray is a force. On the other hand, if you do such an album which everybody likes, people expect the next album to be the same. And of course you don’t do that! You don’t want to do the same thing again and again because people get bored and start to complain. Plus, it will be boring for you because you are a musician and you want to try different aspects of your music. Then, of course, you can’t just do that, because if you start doing that on purpose, it’s ’calculated’, planned and it is not exciting anymore. The next album will be in that direction though… I spited out all my aggression with ’Majestic’ (2005) and now I feel like making ’positive’ music again.”
- Metal Temple: “No World Order” (2001) was heavily influenced by Judas Priest, your favorite band. What did you do in order to create something different this time?
- Kai Hansen: “Well, it didn’t happen on purpose… and I don’t think that it is that influenced by Judas Priest. It is more a step back to the 80’s roots and the heavy, simple guitar riffing stuff. That is related to Judas Priest…”
- Metal Temple: …and you love Judas Priest! [Laughs]
- Kai Hansen: “Of course I love Judas Priest! I could never deny that!”
Read the entire interview with Kai of GAMMA RAY by clicking here.
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