Majestic is the eighth full-length studio album from the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 power metal

Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...

 band 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...

, released in 2005. The band also released an LP version through their website to complement the supporting tour, limited to 1500 copies worldwide.

Guitarist Henjo Ritcher was injured during the Majestic tour from falling down a flight of stairs on a ferry between Sweden and Finland. He was forced to sit out on half the tour due to his injury.

The song "Blood Religion", with lyrics about vampires, became a trademark song of Gamma Ray, with fans in concert chanting some of the main chorus lines during the song similar to how fans recited the main chorus to "Future World", a Helloween song.

Track listing

1. "My Temple" (Hansen) – 4:57
2. "Fight" (Richter) – 3:24
3. "Strange World" (Hansen) – 5:03
4. "Hell is Thy Home" (Hansen) – 4:46
5. "Blood Religion" (Hansen) – 6:53
6. "Condemned to Hell" (Zimmermann) – 4:56
7. "Spiritual Dictator" (Zimmermann) – 5:38
8. "Majesty" (Hansen) – 6:23
9. "How Long" (Hansen) – 4:06
10. "Revelation" (Richter) – 8:30
    • Japanese Bonus Track

11. "Hellfire" (Zimmermann) - 4:37

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...
  
  
• Mastered at: Finnvox Studios, Helsinki
  Helsinki
  Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
  
  , Finland
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
  
• Cover Painting by: Hervé Monjeaud
• Digital Artwork and Booklet Design by: 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:...