VOYAGER-X travel back to the future with their brilliant new album “Magic”, due out on 03/22/2024. Between 1987 and 1997, Voyager belonged at the top of the emerging rock scene around Nuremberg and Southern Germany.
With an original stage performance and strong songs, the refreshing sound inspired fans of heavier rock music at countless concerts and festivals. Singer Mario Gansen recorded the album “We Were All Fools …” with German Krautrock formation Grim Reaper in 1979 and supported Judas Priest and also Motörhead during their 1980 Bomber tour. During a Dynasty gig, his second bigger band, he met the Voyager-X musicians Stephan and Jörg for the first time, with whom he made music together successfully for the next ten years and who are still on board now. Actually, the album “Magic” was supposed to have been released in 1997, but shortly after the recording of the songs in Deckelmann Studio in Zirndorf, Germany, the musicians decided to put their band, then still called Voyager, on ice due to their life circumstances at that time, taking them all around the globe. The band then awoke from this deep slumber just after the original line-up consisting of singer Mario Gansen, guitarist Stephan Baumgärtner, bassist Jörg Schreiber, keyboardist Christian Mordek and drummer Peter Webert met during an event in 2019 and the idea came up to continue what ended so abruptly 22 years earlier after an exciting decade of intensely lived rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Due to other bands using the name in the meantime, the band was renamed to Voyager-X. Political and still current events are processed in the lyrics, penned by singer Mario Gansen (ex-Grim Reaper, ex-Dynasty). The nine songs literally float back to a time when musical virtuosity and vocal artistry still harmonized perfectly, and bands such as Van Halen, Survivor, Marillion and Saga dominated the charts. The German musicians skillfully built the bridge from classic bombast and art rock to more modern sounds with their sophisticated rock music and see themselves as entertainers with a particular claim, taking the audience on a journey through the own rock history with a varied program. Therefore, friends of great rock in the style of Queensrÿche, Fates Warning or Savatage can now look forward to the release of the extraordinary album “Magic”, which was also remastered by Romin Katzer.
1. Janus Face
2. Hypnotize You
3. Magic
4. You Crossed My Way
5. I Recognize You
6. Don’t Lose The Path
7. C’mon Live Your Dreams Together
8. Walk On The Dead Line
9. Crime Of The Century
Mario Gansen (v)
Stephan Baumgärtner (g)
Chris Mordek (k)
Jörg Schreiber (b)
Peter Webert (d)