''Empire of the Undead'' is the eleventh studio album by German

power metal Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contra ...

band

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, released on 28 March 2014. It was their first album to feature new drummer Michael Ehré following

Dan Zimmermann Daniel Hans Erwin Zimmermann (born 30 October 1966 in Nürnberg, West Germany) is a retired heavy metal drummer. Dan is best known as having been the drummer of German power metal bands Gamma Ray and Freedom Call from 1997 to 2012. He was a fou ...

's departure in 2012.

Background

Kai Hansen Kai Michael Hansen (born 17 January 1963) is a German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of metal band Helloween, which he rejoined in 2016. He is a prominent ...

revealed in an interview with Metal Blast in April 2013 that their upcoming album, ''Empire of the Undead'', to be released in 2014, would have a "more thrashy" sound. In the same interview,

Dirk Schlächter Dirk Schlächter (born 15 February 1965, in Bad Nauheim, Germany) is the bassist of the power metal band Gamma Ray and Avalanch from 2018. History Dirk got in touch with music for the first time joining a music school at the age of 8. At the ag ...

announced that the band would do a headlining tour following its release, in March or April 2014.

Track listing

Credits via the album's liner notes.

Personnel

– Lead vocals, guitar *

Henjo Richter Henjo Oliver Richter, (born 24 November 1963 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a guitarist and keyboardist in Gamma Ray (band), Gamma Ray, the German power metal band formed by Kai Hansen. Biography Henjo is a self-taught musician and started playing ...

– Guitar, backing vocals, keyboards *

– Bass, backing vocals *

Michael Ehré Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

– Drums

Charts

References

External links

Empire of the Undead album release, from Gamma Ray's website
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