Sunstorm is a hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 project featuring lead vocalist Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner , is an American rock singer, known for his works with Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Deep Purple. From the late 1990s, he continued to perform in a large number of solo albums and other studio projects...

 (formerly of Rainbow

Rainbow (band)

Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...

), bassist/vocalist Dennis Ward and guitarist Uwe Rietenauer (both of Pink Cream 69

Pink Cream 69

Pink Cream 69 is a German hard rock band founded in 1987 in Karlsruhe, Germany by Andi Deris, Dennis Ward, Kosta Zafiriou and Alfred Koffler. The band gained their first contract by winning music magazine Metal Hammer 's newcomer competition in Ludwigsburg one year after forming. In 1994, Andi...

 fame), drummer Chris Schmidt

Chris Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga...

, and keyboardist Jochen Weyer. The album also features artists such as Dann Huff

Dann Huff

Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...

 and Jim Peterik

Jim Peterik

Jim Peterik is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the band Survivor and as vocalist and songwriter of the hit song "Vehicle" by The Ides of March...

as additional songwriters. The first album called Sunstorm was released in 2006. In 2009 they released their second album House Of Dreams.