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Somewhere Out in Space

Somewhere Out in Space
Gamma Ray

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Track Listing

  1. Beyond the Black Hole
  2. Men, Martians and Machines
  3. No Stranger (Another Day in Life)
  4. Somewhere Out in Space
  5. Guardians of Mankind
  6. Landing
  7. Valley of the Kings
  8. Pray
  9. Winged Horse
  10. Cosmic Chaos
  11. Lost in the Future
  12. Watcher in the Sky
  13. Rising Star
  14. Shine On
  15. Return to Fantasy [*]
  16. Miracle [*]
  17. Victim of Changes [*]

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #237481 in Music
  • Released on: 2003-03-18
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Gamma Ray delivers again4
It can't have been easy for Gamma Ray to follow up their epic 1995 album Land of the Free, but with 1997's Somewhere Out in Space, the band delivered another dose of high quality power metal.

Somewhere Out in Space might not be as majestic as Land of the Free, but it's not that far behind it either. This is a very good power metal album, and definitely has that epic and melodic sound that Kai Hansen practically invented. The whole album is solid, but there are some standout tracks. The title track is a high-speed metal anthem worthy of Helloween, Valley of the Kings and Lost in the Future are epics song despite their relatively short length, Watcher in the Sky could have come from Judas Priest's Painkiller album, and Shine On is a majestic anthem. Future Freedom Call drummer Dan Zimmermann was on board for this album, and you can definitely hear elements of what would become the Freedom Call sound here.

Gamma Ray would continue their series of excellent albums with 1999's Power Plant.

I suppose it goes without saying that Gamma Ray would appeal to Helloween fans. Fans of the more recent power metal bands like Sonata Arctica, Freedom Call, Edguy and Hammerfall also owe it to themselves to check out Gamma Ray, and Somewhere Out in Space is a great album to start with.

The 2003 reissue of Somewhere Out in Space features digitally remastered sound, three bonus tracks (Miracle, a cover of Uriah Heep's Return to Fantasy, and the cover of Judas Priest's Victim of Changes, which originally appeared on the Valley of the Kings EP), and comes in a nice digipack. It's a great way to improve a classic album.

NOTE: If you can find one, there is a very cool (but very limited) box set that collects all six of the remastered Gamma Ray albums.