Year : 2026
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal , Melodic Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 104 mb
Bio:
Kai Michael Hansen (born 17 January 1963 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a heavy metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween. He is a prominent figure in power metal and has sold millions of albums worldwide. He is regarded as "the godfather of power metal", having founded three seminal bands in the genre. In 2011, he joined the band Unisonic featuring former Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske.His musical career started in 1978 in a band called Gentry, alongside Iron Savior's co-founder and producer Piet Sielck. In 1983, he and Michael Weikath founded Helloween, where he was guitarist and singer until Michael Kiske took over the microphone for the albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 and Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2. Hansen left the band due to the extensive touring in 1988–89 and went on to form his own power metal band Gamma Ray. Hansen also joined Iron Savior as guitarist in 1997, but quit after a few years to focus his efforts on Gamma Ray. He has now forged a very successful career with Gamma Ray, releasing several albums and playing sold out tours across the globe.Hansen participated in a large number of other projects. He appeared as a guest vocalist on Blind Guardian's albums Follow the Blind and Tales from the Twilight World. Around the same time, he and fellow Gamma Ray bandmate Dirk Schlächter collaborated on Angra's first full-length album Angels Cry, both playing guitar solos in the song "Never Understand". He also collaborated on Angra's album Temple of Shadows released in 2004 doing vocals for the song "The Temple of Hate". He participated as a guest guitarist on Michael Kiske's debut solo album Instant Clarity. Together with HammerFall he recorded a cover version of Helloween's I Want Out.Hansen played the role of Regrin the dwarf in Avantasia's Metal Opera albums by Tobias Sammet. Later he was featured in the album The Scarecrow playing guitar in the song "Shelter from the Rain". He was also one of the guest musicians in Avantasia's 2010 world tour, which have put him to play live together with fellow ex-bandmate Michael Kiske, after more than twenty years since he left Helloween. After this tour it was announced, via Michael Kiske's official website, that Hansen would join his new band Unisonic, as they "instantly felt the magic of Helloween years again and had a lot of fun together on and off stage".In 2005, he toured with the young German power/Viking metal band Stormwarrior from his home town of Hamburg as lead singer, playing material from his classic Helloween debut album "Walls of Jericho" – the favorite album and greatest influence of Stormwarrior. "Stormwarrior featuring Kai Hansen" returned in 2007 to play at the Magic Circle Festival in Bad Arolsen and at the Wacken Open Air Festival.In 2008, Hansen played with Stormwarrior at Sweden Rock Festival 2008.In 2011, Hansen joined the hard-rock band Unisonic, as second guitarist and reunited with old friend and ex-Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske, who formed the band in 2009. The band released its debut album, Unisonic in 2012 and embarked on its first world tour. Hansen stated in an interview that despite being a member of Unisonic, he will not have less focus on Gamma Ray, and that the next Gamma Ray album should arrive in 2013.Unisonic's second album, Light Of Dawn, was released in 2014 and a European and Japanese tour followed.
Album:
Kai Hansen is considered one of the most influential figures in heavy metal. As co-founder of Helloween and founder of Gamma Ray, he has significantly shaped power metal. With "Born With A Hammer," Hansen now presents his first solo album in many years, released on September 18, 2026, via earMUSIC. Raw, energetic, rebellious, and unmistakably personal, the album unites the various facets of his musical identity, moving between powerful heavy metal, hard rock, and a punk attitude, all carried by his signature sound. Produced by Eike Freese, "Born With A Hammer" showcases Hansen at the height of his creative powers. The first single, "Feeding The Beast," already provides a powerful first impression of the album.
Line Up:
Kai Hansen - Guitar , vocals - See also: Gamma Ray, Unisonic, ex-Helloween, ex-Iron Savior, ex-Avantasia (live), ex-Stormwarrior (live), ex-Gentry, ex-Iron Fist, ex-Second Hell
Eike Freese - Guitars (2016-2017, 2026-present) - See also: Dark Age, ex-Dyer's Eve
Tim Hansen - Guitars (2026-present) - See also: Induction
Alexander Dietz - Bass (2016-2017, 2026-present) - See also: Deathwish Apocalypse, Heaven Shall Burn, Erode, Gruppe Planet, ex-Décembre Noir (live), ex-Neaera (live)
Daniel Wilding - Drums (2016-2017, 2026-present) - See also: Carcass, ex-Killing Mode, ex-Misery, ex-Trigger the Bloodshed, ex-Aborted, ex-The Order of Apollyon, ex-Heaven Shall Burn (live), ex-Savage Messiah (live), ex-The Soulless
Tracklist:
01. Feeding the Beast 04:57
02. Welcome to Life 04:17
03. Don’t Care 04:02
04. Wait and See 03:31
05. Born with a Hammer 08:04
06. I.D.G.A.F. 04:28
07. End of the Road 03:37
08. Triple Trouble 03:16
09. Invaders 05:36
10. Wonderland 03:51
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