Hi everyone!

I thought it may be a good time to introduce myself.  My name is Squeak.  I have taken over responsibility for this official Gamma Ray myspace profile about 10 days ago.  I have been a huge, huge fan of Gamma Ray since their beginning (and Helloween since before that as well).  I will be updating it regularly, as well as adding lots more photos and whatnot in the coming days. 

For right now, I have added promo photos from the albums since No World Order (waiting to get the older ones still), plus all of the album covers, covers of singles, and covers of the videos they've released.

I have also added FIVE more songs to the music player - these are the songs that are now available on the profile:

Land of the Free II - When the World's On My Shoulders
Land of the Free II - Into the Storm
Power Plant - Anywhere in the Galaxy
No World Order - New World Order
Land of the Free - Time To Break Free
Heading for Tomorrow - Heaven Can Wait

I have also added the two festival dates that the guys are confirmed for, which are:

April 24, 2009 - KarmøyGeddon Festival - Norway
July 10, 2009 - Derrame Rock festival - Spain

In a few days, I will be send out a blog and bulletin to ask people to send in any old concert photos (clear, good quality ones), pictures of old concert flyers/posters, pictures of ticket stubs (not plain ones, but ones that have some sort of artwork on it or they look cooler than normal, plain ones), pictures of fan artwork of the band, pictures of tattoos of the band, ANY magazine articles from around the world, etc.  So, if you'd like to start looking through your own collections, I would grately appreciate it!  If you want an idea of what I am asking for, you can go look at the KREATOR myspace profile that I run, which has many of these things on it : www.myspace.com/officialkreator .  I am wanting to make this profile a place for fans to find cool and unusual things, especially things that people like me (in California) have never had the chance to see.  If there are any other things you can think of, please let me know - I am open to all ideas and will do my best to get some things out there for all of you!

As well, no one had logged into this myspace profile from the beginning of December until the beginning of March, so if you know ANYONE who sent a friends request between December and February, PLEASE ask them to send a new one!  Myspace will only keep friend requests in the queue for one month, so anything before February 4th was deleted already. 

Also, there is another Gamma Ray profile here: www.myspace.com/gmmaray .  This is NOT an official profile and they haven't logged into the profile since 2007.  I am in the process of getting it deleted and am trying my best to send friend requests to all 1700+ friends on there.  If you know anyone that has that profile and not this one, please let them know to come over here!

If you are curious as to who I am, I have worked with bands for over 20 years, doing photography, promotion, writing press releases, interviews, etc.  The myspace profiles that I run for bands are:

DIMENSION ZERO (melodic death from Sweden) - www.myspace.com/dimensionzerometal
KREATOR (thrash from Germany) - www.myspace.com/officialkreator
MORGANA LEFAY (dark power metal from Sweden) - www.myspace.com/morganalefay
PATHOS (heavy, thrashy power metal from Sweden) - www.myspace.com/pathosmetal
TAD MOROSE (traditional power metal from Sweden) - www.myspace.com/tadmorose 
VENOM (black metal from England) - www.myspace.com/venomlegions

I also help with the following myspace band profiles:

DESTRUCTION (thrash from Germany) - www.myspace.com/officialdestruction
SUIDAKRA (thrashy pagan metal from Germany) - www.myspace.com/suidakra

And... if you want to know me, you can always wander onto my myspace:

www.myspace.com/photomistress

Now, if anyone out there would like to repost this bulletin, I would definitely appreciate it, because I really want to reach the Gamma Ray fans that are out there, and hell, even some new fans!  Thanks to everyone for being patient.

~Squeak

GAMMA RAY's long-awaited 2-DVD/2-CD DVD package "Hell Yeah! The Awesome Foursome Live in Montreal", is scheduled for release on October 27 in Europe and November 4 in the U.S. via SPV. The set will feature a multi-camera recording of the band's May 6, 2006 show at Medley in Montreal, Quebec, several "road movies," promotional clips, and footage from the group's January 2008 concert in Barcelona, Spain.

Band leader Kai Hansen looks back at GAMMA RAY's first American tour with pride and great joy, saying: "We had played in the States only once before, so this was our first headliner tour of America. Of course we had no idea what exactly to expect, but the reactions were overwhelming. The tickets sold extremely well, and the atmosphere was amazing night after night. What you see on the footage from Montreal is what we experienced at almost every show."

He continued: "We had been thinking about releasing a live DVD for a long time, especially as our faithful fans had been nagging us about one for years. Unfortunately we'd never had the time to plan and realise such a large-scale project. Well, here you go! This is a DVD the way we like it: diverse and multi-faceted, featuring a musical cross-section of the GAMMA RAY albums recorded by the current line-up since 1998. The road movie speaks for itself, and those nice little extras are great mementoes of our band history to date."

The DVD's humorous subtitle "… And The Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn't Want To Wear His Donald Duck Costume…" refers to keyboardist Eero Kaukomies who plays in the GAMMA RAY cover band GUARDIANS OF MANKIND from Helsinki and who performed with GAMMA RAY during its entire American tour. Hansen explained: "During the tour, Henjo suddenly noticed that Eero has a somewhat duck-like walk. So the crazy idea developed to make him wear a Donald Duck costume at the show in Montreal and present him to the audience. Naturally, this great suggestion didn't meet with much enthusiasm from Eero, and the whole thing became a running gag." Hansen added with a wink: "By the way, the 'awesome foursome' refers to Henjo, Dirk, Daniel and myself, in case you were wondering."

GAMMA RAY will travel to Russia at the beginning of September and is scheduled to tour America and Canada this fall. And the rest of the year? "We are collecting ideas for our next studio album," Hansen revealed. "Quite a few of them have already piled up, so come autumn we will probably begin to sort through them and go to the studio in January 2009."

Track Listing – DVD:

DVD 1 – Montreal Show 2006

01. Welcome
02. Gardens Of The Sinner
03. New World Order
04. Man On A Mission
05. Fight
06. Blood Religion
07. Heavy Metal Universe
08. Dreamhealer
09. The Heart Of The Unicorn
10. Fairytale
11. The Silence
12. Beyond The Blackhole
13. Valley Of The Kings
14. Somewhere Out In Space
15. Land Of The Free
16. Rebellion In Dreamland
17. I Want Out
18. Send Me A Sign

DVD 2

Road Movie:

* Documentary from the Northamerican Tour

Video Clips:

* Space Eater
* One With The World
* Gamma Ray
* Rebellion In Dreamland
* Send Me A Sign
* Heavy Metal Universe
* Eagle
* Into The Storm

Live At Wacken Open Air 2003

* One With The World
* Last Before The Storm

Live At Wacken Open Air 2006

* Rebellion In Dreamland
* Heavy Metal Universe
* Somewhere Out In Space

Historay: Over the years private movies, backstage scenes and live performances
Unplugged: Kai and Henjo unplugged in Japan

DVD 3 (Bonus, only Europe)

Four songs from "Land Of The Free II" recorded live in Barcelona during the "Hellish Rock" tour with HELLOWEEN in January 2008:

01. Into The Storm
02. Empress
03. From The Ashes
04. Real World

Plus Backstage scenes, soundchecks, etc...

Track Listing CD:

CD 1

01. Welcome
02. Gardens Of The Sinner
03. New World Order
04. Man On A Mission
05. Fight
06. Blood Religion
07. Heavy Metal Universe
08. Dreamhealer
09. The Heart Of The Unicorn
10. Fairytale
11. The Silence

CD 2

01. Beyond The Blackhole
02. Valley Of The Kings
03. Somewhere Out In Space
04. Land Of The Free
05. Rebellion In Dreamland
06. I Want Out
07. Send Me A Sign

Bonus Tracks:

08. Into The Storm
09. Empress
10. From The Ashes
11. Real World