Gamma Ray: Kai Hansen (vocals, guitar); Henjo Richter (guitar, keyboards); Dirk Schlachter (bass); Dan Zimmerman (drums).
Additional personnel: Piet Sielck (vocals; guitar); Thomen Stauch (drums).
Recorded at Hansen Studio, Hamburg, Germany, June 1997.
Recorded in 1997 and released in the U.S. a year later, Gamma Ray's fifth studio recording, Somewhere out in Space, is a concept album paying tribute to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The music largely follows the gothic Euro-metal style Kai Hansen employed with Helloween. ~ Steve Huey minimize