New Band: Ride The Sky

I heard a song on the Nuclear Blast Allstars bonus CD recently and was pretty impressed. This is Uli Kusch's new band. Heavy power metal with some progressive touches, with a singer—Bjorn Jansson (ex-Beyond Twilight), to be exact—that sounds a lot like Jorn Lande, who was also once in Beyond Twilight. Speaking of Lande and Kusch, I wouldn't say this band is very far off from Masterplan territory, from my limited listening experience.



Anyway, the album is out somewhere. I haven't seen it around here, but I can't wait to get a copy. Check out some samples below:

NEW PROTECTOR (Video)

http://www.myspace.com/ridetheskytheband
http://www.ridethesky.eu

Ride the sky!
Give me wings...to fly...
Ride the sky!

Named after the Lucifer's Friend song?

SAHB Healer wrote:

Named after the Lucifer's Friend song?

I would assume it's named after the Helloween song, but I don't know; Uli wasn't in the band back then.

I was thinking Helloween.

Uli's got a set of brass balls naming his new band after a Helloween song that he didn't even play on...

I was thinking it was a Helloween cover band. I dont really like the voice...

Eyesore! Good call....sounds a lot like Masterplan which in my book is a very good thing. This is on my want list. Thanks for the tip! I also got a little bit of an Evergrey vibe which is again a good thing....

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Eyesore! Good call....sounds a lot like Masterplan which in my book is a very good thing. This is on my want list. Thanks for the tip! I also got a little bit of an Evergrey vibe which is again a good thing....

Yep. I hear both, too. Definitely sounds like a solid release. Hopefully I can score a copy soon.

And I sort of agree with Freddy about the band name, though I do think it's a pretty cool band name. Haha. I can't remember—is there any bad blood between Helloween and Uli? There is, right? It could be a big FU to the band. Haha.

I was thinking Helloween on the name as well. Sounds like a band with a lot of promise, though!

Eyesore wrote:

Haha. I can't remember—is there any bad blood between Helloween and Uli? There is, right? It could be a big FU to the band. Haha.

I dunno about the rest of the Helloween guys but I know that Uli and Michael Weikath had some disagreements about Helloween's direction that led to Uli leaving the band...I read an interview with Weiki a while back where he said a lot of what turned up on the first Masterplan album started out as Uli's demos for a new Helloween record...he seemed a little ticked off that Masterplan kinda got started on Helloween's dime...

This sounds great!
Uli is very busy these days!
I really like his other bands Beautiful Sin and Mekong Delta as well!

Olafsto wrote:

This sounds great!
Uli is very busy these days!
I really like his other bands Beautiful Sin and Mekong Delta as well!

I always read your name as Oldfatso for some reason. Haha.

I may be old, but I`m not fat
Speaking of names, I have always wondered if it is the eye in the bottom of your back that`s sore??????

That's a mouth, not an eye.

I've had this for quite awhile and really enjoy this alot. Definitely has some Helloween touches to it!

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