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Land of the Free
Studio album by Gamma Ray
Released	May 29, 1995 March 18, 2003 (Re-release)
Recorded	R.A.S.H. Studio Gelsenkirchen (Drums), Hansen Studio Hamburg
Genre	Power metal
Length	56:43
Label	Noise Records
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Gamma Ray chronology
Insanity and Genius (1993) Land of the Free (1995) Somewhere Out in Space (1997)

Land of the Free is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 1995. Land of the Free was the first Gamma Ray album to be released since the departure of Ralf Scheepers, leaving former Helloween lead vocalist and Gamma Ray guitarist, Kai Hansen to take up lead vocals. This is his first recording as a lead vocalist since Helloween's release of their album Walls of Jericho in 1985.

This was the last album featuring the then current line-up of the band. Originally, bassist Jan Rubach was to swap positions with guitarist Dirk Schlächter, but decided to leave the band instead. Drummer Thomas Nack also left after this album.

The track "Afterlife" was written as a tribute to Ingo Schwichtenberg, Kai Hansen's former bandmate in Helloween, who committed suicide prior to the album's release.

Part of the solo of track 4, "All of the Damned", is taken from the Eagles song Hotel California.

Along with most of the band's past catalogue, the album was re-released in 2003 with a different cover and expanded tracklist which featured three tracks that had either appeared as bonuses on various different editions of the album (namely "Heavy Metal Mania", which was a Japanese bonus track on the original release) or were unreleased tracks.

1. "Rebellion in Dreamland" (Hansen) – 8:44
2. "Man on a Mission" (Hansen) – 5:49
3. "Fairytale" (Hansen) – 0:50
4. "All of the Damned" (Hansen) – 5:00
5. "Rising of the Damned" (Hansen) – 0:43
6. "Gods of Deliverance" (Hansen/Rubach) – 5:01
7. "Farewell" (Schlächter) – 5:11
8. "Salvation's Calling" (Rubach) – 4:36
9. "Land of the Free" (Hansen) – 4:38
10. "The Saviour" (Hansen) – 0:40
11. "Abyss of the Void" (Hansen) – 6:04
12. "Time to Break Free" (Hansen) – 4:40
13. "Afterlife" (Hansen/Rubach) – 4:46

• 14. "Heavy Metal Mania" (Mortimer) - 4:49 (Holocaust cover)
• 15. "As Time Goes By (pre-Production version)" (Hansen/Sielck) - 4:53
• 16. "The Silence '95" (Hansen) - 6:29

• Lead Vocals & Guitars: Kai Hansen
• Guitars: Dirk Schlächter
• Bass Guitars: Jan Rubach
• Drums: Thomas Nack

• Keyboards: Sascha Paeth
• Guest Vocals: Hansi Kürsch ("Farewell")
• Guest Vocals: Michael Kiske ("Time to Break Free", "Land Of The Free")