GAMMA RAY — Heading for Tomorrow (review)

GAMMA RAY — Heading for Tomorrow album cover Album · 1990 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Genre: power metal / traditional heavy metal / hard rock / glam metal

Although is is not the strongest album out there, it is easy to see what happened to the important creative force that Helloween lost when Kai Hansen left the band - and it did take them a long time to recover from that loss. Anyway, "Heading for Tomorrow" is a strange, yet refreshing, ecclectic affair which is difficult to pinpoint genrewise. While there are a lot of power metal elements, I think that a lot of the songs draw a lot on traditional heavy metal and hard rock - such as "Heaven Can Wait", "Space Eater" the Deep Purple-like "Look at Yourself", and the Queen-like "Heading for Tomorrow", while others like "Free Time" are kind of glam metallish. The ballads "The silence", "Lonesome Stranger" and "Sail On" are a bit too cheesy for me, although all three tracks contain some nice parts.

Stand-out tracks for me are the "Money" and "Hold Your Ground", both of which seem to be parodies of neoclassical heavy metal, the musical quality being as high as with those artists that they parodize.
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