Land of the Free II is the ninth full length studio album by Gamma Ray

Gamma Ray (band)

Gamma Ray is a power metal band from Hamburg, northern Germany, founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the German power metal Helloween. Hansen is the current lead vocalist, guitarist as well as the chief songwriter of Gamma Ray. The band is known as one of the most prominent...

. It was released on November 16, 2007 in Germany, November 19 in Europe, November 21 in Japan and January 15, 2008 for North America. To promote Land of the Free II, Gamma Ray joined Helloween

Helloween

Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...

 on the 2007/08 Hellish Rock Tour. The song "Into the Storm" is available on the band's MySpace page and its music video on YouTube.

The first-edition CD, released as a Digipak, was limited to 30,000 copies.

Track listing

1. "Rising Again" (Hansen) – 0:27
2. "To Mother Earth" (Hansen) – 5:11
3. "Empress" (Zimmermann) – 6:22
4. "Rain" (Richter) – 5:16
5. "Into The Storm" (Hansen) – 3:47
6. "When The World" (Hansen) – 5:44
7. "From The Ashes" (Hansen) – 5:26
8. "Leaving Hell" (Hansen) – 4:20
9. "Real World" (Hansen) – 5:42
10. "Hear Me Calling" (Richter) – 4:14
11. "Opportunity" (Schlächter) – 7:14
12. "Insurrection" (Hansen) – 11:33

Japanese Import Track listing

1. "Into The Storm" (Hansen) – 3:47
2. "From The Ashes" (Hansen) – 5:26
3. "Rising Again" (Hansen) – 0:27
4. "To Mother Earth" (Hansen) – 5:11
5. "Rain" (Richter) – 5:16
6. "Leaving Hell" (Hansen) – 4:20
7. "Empress" (Zimmermann) – 6:22
8. "When The World" (Hansen) – 5:44
9. "Opportunity" (Schlächter) – 7:14
10. "Real World" (Hansen) – 5:42
11. "Hear Me Calling" (Richter) – 4:14
12. "Insurrection" (Hansen) – 11:33
    • Japanese Bonus Track

13. "Blood Religion (Live in Montréal)"

Personnel

• Kai Hansen
  Kai Hansen
  Kai Michael Hansen is a power metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray, and 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...
  
   - vocals, guitar
• Henjo Richter
  Henjo Richter
  Henjo Oliver Richter, in Hamburg, West Germany, is a guitarist and keyboardist in Gamma Ray, the German power metal band formed by Kai Hansen.-Biography:...
  
   - guitars, keyboards
• Dirk Schlächter
  Dirk Schlächter
  Dirk Schlächter is the bassist of the power metal band Gamma Ray.- History :Dirk got in touch with music for the first time joining a music school at the age of 8. At the age of 11 he got his first acoustic guitar followed by an electric guitar at the age of 15. At the age of 19 he turned to bass...
  
   - bass
• Dan Zimmermann
  Dan Zimmermann
  Daniel Hans Erwin Zimmermann is a heavy metal drummer currently playing in Gamma Ray. Dan joined Gamma Ray in 1997.-With Gamma Ray:*Valley of the Kings *Somewhere Out In Space...
  
   - drums

Credits

• Produced and engineered by: Dirk Schlächter
  Dirk Schlächter
  Dirk Schlächter is the bassist of the power metal band Gamma Ray.- History :Dirk got in touch with music for the first time joining a music school at the age of 8. At the age of 11 he got his first acoustic guitar followed by an electric guitar at the age of 15. At the age of 19 he turned to bass...
  
  , Kai Hansen
  Kai Hansen
  Kai Michael Hansen is a power metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray, and 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...
  
  
• Mixed by: Tommy Newton at Area 51 Studio, Celle
  Celle
  Celle is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the River Aller, a tributary of the Weser and has a population of about 71,000...
  
  , Germany
• Cover Painting by: Hervé Monjeaud
• Booklet Graphics and Layout by: Dirk Illing

Chart positions

• Germany: #54
• Sweden: #57
• Norway: #98