Gamma Ray's Reviews

No World Order

(Average Rating: 9.00 out of 10)

Their best album

(Rated this album with 10 out of 10)
Reviewed by gergellor from Zuquizira

I knwo that hardcores fans of a band normally get too much excited about a new release by their favourite band, and say it's their best ever.

I'm not a hardcore Gamma Ray fan, because I do not own all of them official releases. I've got Insanity and Genius, Land of The Free, Somewhere Out in Space, Blast From The Past and, now No World Order. I must also say that sometime ago I got rid of Sigh No More, an album I did not like at all, and also that I never completely enjoyed Ralf Scheepes's vocals.

So, from the albums I own, NO WORLD ORDER is by far their best album. It tops even LAND OF THE FREE, because production is better, at the hands of Kai Hansen and Dirk Schlachter (the album was recorded at Kai Hansen'studios, at Hamburg). Also, this album has a more straight-a hard rock / metal sound, it's less progressive metal or totally power metal. THis can be testified by the HUGE amount of influences that one can notice along the songs, mainly Judas Priest.

I enjoyed all the tunes, except the last one, "Lake Of Tears" (I found it a really pedestrian power ballad).

Anyway, it's clear to me now that Gamma Ray totally blows away the competition of European power metal bands like Running Wild, Grave Digger, Stratovarius, Rhapsody, HammerFall, Nocturnal Rites, etc.

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