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Sweden |
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Hard Rock, Power Metal |
DISBANDED
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Page online:
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March 23, 2008
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Last update/review:
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April 30, 2008
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Ride The Sky
Ride The Sky was a new Swedish (mostly)
band forming in 2006 and releasing their
debut album (
New Protection) a year later, with
their name no doubt a reference to the classic
Helloween
song (indeed, well-travelled drummer and
onetime Helloween sticksman Uli Kusch
helped form this group).
But if the band name derived from Helloween,
the music was less derivative of that band --
this is power metal, but
more of the melodic, hard rock-inspired variety
rather than the speedier stuff that Helloween
pioneered back in the day.
This wasn't revolutionary material (indeed, there were
similarities to two of Kusch's other recent bands,
Beautiful Sin
and
Masterplan),
and those into the heavier/extreme end of the metal
spectrum aren't going to find much here, but the album
got some good reviews and things seemed to be looking up for the group.
Unfortunately, both the band and the record label seemed to have
lost interest in pushing the band forward, and by April
2008 Ride The Sky was done.
Discography
New Protection
2007
Nuclear Blast
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- New Protection
- A Smile From Heaven's Eye
- Silent War
- The Prince Of Darkness
- Break The Chain
- Corroded Dreams
- The End Of Days
- Far Beyond The Stars
- Black Cloud
- Endless
- Heaven Only Knows
- A Crack In The Wall
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Bjorn Jansson
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Benny Jansson
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Mathias GarnĂ¥s
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Kaspar Dahlqvist
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Uli Kusch
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