Ride the Sky

Infobox musical artist
Name = Ride the Sky


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Origin = Sweden, Germany
Genre = Progressive metal Power metal Symphonic metal Hard rock
Years_active = 2006–2008
Label = Nuclear Blast
Associated_acts = Helloween Gamma Ray Masterplan Dionysus Beyond Twilight Tears of Anger XsavioR
URL = [http://www.ridethesky.eu/ www.ridethesky.eu]
Current_members = Bjorn Jansson Uli Kusch Benny Jansson Mathias Garnås
Past_members = Kaspar Dahlqvist

Ride the Sky was a progressive power metal band formed by ex-Helloween, Gamma Ray, and Masterplan drummer Uli Kusch, and Tears of Anger members Bjorn Jansson and Benny Jansson.

History

The ground work for Ride the Sky began back in 2006 when drummer Uli Kusch started swapping musical ideas with vocalist Bjorn Jansson. [ [http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/nb/v2/bands/band.php?bandID=334 Welcome to Nuclear Blast USA! ] ] Uli left Masterplan later that year and was asked by Bjorn and Benny to do some guest work on the next Tears of Anger album. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:dpftxqqrld6e allmusic ((( Ride the Sky > Overview ))) ] ] Uli was impressed with the music sent to him, and started sending some of his own compositions back to them. [ [http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/nb/v2/bands/band.php?bandID=334 Welcome to Nuclear Blast USA! ] ] The three musicians decided to put all their work to play in Ride the Sky. The trio hired bassist Mathias Garnås, and keyboardist Kaspar Dahlqvist, in order to, according to them, to "Gain the highest caliber of talent to complete the band". [ [http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/nb/v2/bands/band.php?bandID=334 Welcome to Nuclear Blast USA! ] ] They have so far released one album entitled "New Protection", on metal label Nuclear Blast records. The band combines strong traits of progressive metal, power metal, and symphonic metal, with strong influences from 80's hard rock. [ [http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/nb/v2/bands/band.php?bandID=334 Welcome to Nuclear Blast USA! ] ]

On November 17, 2007, on their website they, announced that Kaspar departed from the line-up due to personal reasons, and that Ram-Zet's Henning "Zet" Ramseth was to replace him on keyboards and rhythm guitar for the rest of the tour. [ [http://www.ridethesky.eu/index2.htm Ride The Sky ] ]

On April 22, 2008 the band stated in their blog on MySpace that they have officially broken up [ [http://www.myspace.com/ridethesky MySpace.com - Ride The Sky - SE - Metal - www.myspace.com/ridethesky ] ] , saying "There was not much media focus and together with a minor support from the record company, we came to the point where it was just not worth the work to even try to complete a second album."

Members

Current members

*Bjørn Jansson – vocals
*Uli Kusch – drums
*Benny Jansson – guitar, backing vocals
*Mathias Garnås – bass guitar

Former members

*Kaspar Dahlqvist – keyboards

ession members

*Henning Ramseth – keyboards, rhythm guitar

Discography

*"New Protection" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.ridethesky.eu/ Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/ridethesky Official MySpace]

References