Gamma Ray drummer Dan Zimmermann takes advantage of a break from his original
band to form Freedom Call with singer Chris Bay. After a debut album in 1999,
Stairway to Fairyland, Freedom Call released the mini-album Taragon, featuring
Saxon's Biff Byford, also in 1999. Crystal Empire, the band's real second album,
was released in 2001. Eternity came out in 2002, before Freedom Call released
their most accomplished album, The Circle of Life, in 2005. Fluctuating between
classical metal and an obvious appetite for symphonic metal, Freedom Call
returned in 2007 with Dimensions. Lege...