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German power metal band

Helloween
Helloween performing at Wacken Open Air in 2018

Helloween performing at Wacken Open up Air in 2018
Background information
Origin Hamburg, West Federal republic of germany
Genres
  • Power metal
  • speed metallic (early)
Years agile 1984–present
Labels
  • Dissonance
  • RCA
  • EMI
  • Castle
  • Sony Music
  • Nuclear Boom
  • Steamhammer/SPV
Associated acts
  • Gamma Ray
  • Iron Savior
  • Masterplan
  • Blind Guardian
  • Liberty Call
  • Bassinvaders
  • Pink Cream 69
  • Unisonic
Website helloween.org
Members
  • Michael Weikath
  • Markus Grosskopf
  • Kai Hansen
  • Michael Kiske
  • Andi Deris
  • Sascha Gerstner
  • Daniel Löble
Past members
  • Ingo Schwichtenberg
  • Roland Grapow
  • Uli Kusch
  • Mark Cantankerous
  • Stefan Schwarzmann

Helloween is a High german power metal ring founded in 1984 in Hamburg past members of bands Iron Fist, Gentry, Second Hell and Powerfool. Its kickoff lineup consisted of singer and guitarist Kai Hansen, bassist Markus Grosskopf, guitarist Michael Weikath and drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg. By the fourth dimension Hansen quit Helloween in 1989 to grade Gamma Ray, the ring had evolved into a five-piece, with Michael Kiske taking over every bit lead vocalist. Schwichtenberg and Kiske both parted ways with Helloween in 1993; Schwichtenberg died two years afterwards as the result of suicide. Betwixt then and 2016, there had been numerous line-up changes, leaving Grosskopf and Weikath every bit the only remaining original members. As a septet, their electric current lineup includes 4-fifths of the Keeper of the Seven Keys: Parts I and Ii-era (1987–1988) lineup, featuring three additional members, singer Andi Deris (who had replaced Kiske in 1994), guitarist Sascha Gerstner and drummer Daniel Löble.

Since its inception, Helloween has released xvi studio albums, three live albums, three EPs and 29 singles, was honored with 14 gilt and six platinum awards and has sold more than ten million records worldwide.[1] [2] Helloween has been referred to as the "fathers of power metal", as well as 1 of the and so-called "big four" of the genre's early German scene, forth with Grave Digger, Rage and Running Wild,[three] [4] [5] [six] and as one of power metal "big four" overall, along with Blind Guardian, Sabaton and DragonForce.[7]

History [edit]

Early years and first album (1984–1986) [edit]

Helloween was formed 1984 in Hamburg, West Germany. The original line-up included Kai Hansen on vocals and rhythm guitar, Michael Weikath on atomic number 82 guitar, Markus Grosskopf on bass and Ingo Schwichtenberg on drums. That year, the ring signed with Noise Records and recorded two songs for a Noise compilation record chosen Decease Metal. The compilation featured the bands Hellhammer, Running Wild and Nighttime Avenger. The ii tracks were "Oernst of Life" by Weikath and Hansen's "Metal Invaders," a faster version of which would appear on the band's first full-length anthology.

Helloween recorded and released its offset tape in 1985, a self-titled EP containing five tracks. Also that year, the ring released its first full-length anthology, Walls of Jericho. During the post-obit concert tour, Hansen had difficulties singing and playing the guitar at the same time. Hansen'south last recording as the band's pb singer was in 1986 on a vinyl EP titled Judas, which independent the vocal "Judas" and live versions of "Ride the Sky" and "Guardians" recorded at Gelsenkirchen. (The CD edition has the live introduction, simply the songs have been replaced with studio versions and crowd noise spliced in.) Following these releases, Helloween began the search for a new vocalist.[8]

Hansen said in an interview 1999:

"We wanted to get for a lot more intricate stuff on the guitar and more technical. And so information technology was similar getting harder and harder for me without having big experience on vocals. I never had lessons or anything and I was non that stock-still on the guitar nonetheless then it was getting hard. On the other manus we thought it would be really cool to have a existent front homo, a real vocaliser. We heard Queensryche, the first album that they did, and we thought wow that would exist cool to have a vocalist similar that who could exist very stable on the high soaring notes and have a lot of expression."

Keeper of the Seven Keys (1986–1989) [edit]

The band institute an eighteen-yr-sometime vocalist, Michael Kiske, from a local Hamburg band named Ill Prophecy. Kiske was initially uninterested in them, having heard the more thrashy Walls of Jericho, merely after Weikath insisted, he attended one of their sessions and heard some songs they had equanimous for his voice (songs which would afterward be featured in their next albums), and he changed his mind.[9]

With their new lead vocaliser in tow, Helloween approached record labels Dissonance International and RCA and proposed the release of a double-LP to introduce the line-upward. This proposition was turned down.

Instead, they recorded a single LP, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I. The album was released by Dissonance Records on 23 May 1987, months after the ring spent the winter of 1986 into 1987 difficult at piece of work inside Horus Audio Studio in Hannover, Deutschland. It consisted of songs by and large written by Hansen. Due to guitarist Michael Weikath'due south disease, he was recovering from a nervous breakdown, all the rhythm guitars on the album were played past Hansen. Weikath was simply able to play some guitar solos and only wrote the ballad "A Tale That Wasn't Right". Weikath said in an interview: "I was pleased to even so be in the band."[10]

The album received peachy reviews from the press and a great response from the fans. The positive reception took Helloween across the sea, as they toured the United states together with Grim Reaper and Armored Saint. Their American distributor at the time, RCA, got them to record a video for the epic "Halloween", but cut information technology to four minutes then that the video can be played on MTV. However, subsequently the European bout together with Overkill, the first struggles within the ring started taking shape.

Exhausted from touring, Hansen asked the band to take a short intermission from live performances. However, as the band was merely starting to gain momentum the time to take a break was just non correct. The disputes ranged from arguing most their musical direction on the future releases to extensive touring and other, by and large insignificant topics. Hansen started contemplating leaving the ring.

In Baronial 1988, Helloween released Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II. This time the record featured more Weikath-penned tracks. The idea backside this was that the showtime anthology should feature tracks written by Hansen due to their similarity to the manner of their debut, while the second anthology would feature tracks composed by Weikath which were a lot more mainstream by comparison. The album capitalized on the success of Keeper of the 7 Keys Function 1 and picks up where it left off. Success bloomed all over Europe, Asia and even the US. The album went gold in Deutschland, reached #108 in the United states of america, hitting the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland summit 30 albums and single "Dr Stein" reached the lofty heights of #57.

Despite the vast commercial success of the Keeper's role 2, the rift between the band members kept growing. They spent more time arguing nigh the music rather than composing it. Hansen called for a meeting and once again asked the band if they could have a intermission from touring.

The band got the chance to perform, in forepart of 100.000 people, as a part of the Monsters of Rock festival along with Iron Maiden, David Lee Roth, Kiss, Megadeth and Guns N' Roses at Donington Park on 20 August 1988.

Around the same time, the tension betwixt the band and their record label Noise led to an argument which would later atomic number 82 to a lawsuit. The band was discontent with how much they were being paid taking into business relationship dandy record and trade sales, as well as frequent touring. Helloween too supported Iron Maiden on their Seventh Tour of a Seventh Bout, on some dates in Europe.

In the autumn of 1988, the band went on yet some other European tour, at present as headlining deed, named "Pumpkins Fly Gratuitous Tour", which spawned their first ever live album, released the year after, titled "Alive in the U.One thousand." recorded during their evidence in Scotland. The same tape was besides released as "Keepers Alive" in Japan and "I Want Out Alive" in the Usa.

MTV put the unmarried "I Want Out" into heavy rotation. A video that was directed by Storm Thorgerson. In Hansen's I Want Out the guitarist very publicly laid out his disillusion with life as a member of Helloween at this time.[xi]

"It was a argument, yes," Hansen says. "It wasn't simply wanting out of the band, it was a full general thing relating to everything that was going on: poor management, other people telling united states of america where to exist and what to exercise, never-catastrophe internal discussions… I just wanted to rock."

In back up of its Headbangers Brawl show, MTV as well presented the Headbangers Ball Tour in US and invited Helloween to be a part of information technology in 1989. However, before the start of that bout, in December 1988 Kai Hansen bankrupt the news to the other members that he was leaving Helloween. Hansen'due south concluding show with the band was at The Hummingbird, Birmingham, Great britain on 8 November 1988.

Hansen and Kiske'south departures (1989–1993) [edit]

Helloween chose Roland Grapow to replace Hansen.

Grapow was originally discovered in a club in Hamburg, Germany playing with his band Binge. Helloween guitarist Michael Weikath, who kept Grapow'due south name in listen in the event Hansen would potentially leave.

Grapow, who was a car mechanic at the time, stated in 2017 that, if Weikath had not happened to ask him to bring together the band, he would accept kept his job and given upwardly on his dream of becoming a professional musician.[12] Grapow said in 2020:

"Weikath called me in August 88 with the question if I was still playing guitar, because he saw me at a Rampage evidence, He asked me if I'd like to join Helloween later they will cease the European tour, because Kai wanted to get out the ring…so I started learning the songs and in December I was playing five songs with them at the rehearsal room. Some weeks later I was already on bout in America with them and then we went to Japan subsequently that." [13]

The inaugural Headbangers Brawl Bout started in Apr 1989 with Helloween joining San Francisco Bay Area thrash-metal band Exodus in support of headlining act Anthrax.[14] The band was slotted in the prestigious 2nd spot, right before Anthrax's set. On the heels of this exposure to U.South. audiences, the band accomplished worldwide success. Kiske reflected at the time:

"I can see why it made sense for us to get involved with MTV just I really don't retrieve we fit this bill at all. We're playing our hardest songs every night, but we're not thrash."

At the height of their success Helloween decided to sign with then-major characterization EMI after existence urged to exercise so by their direction company Sanctuary, who also managed Iron Maiden. Their quondam label Noise Records sued them for alienation of contract which finer put the band on hold. Between June 1989 and April 1992 they did not play ane show. All the momentum the band had build up came to a halt.

Their first album with new guitarist Grapow Pinkish Bubbles Go Ape was released on EMI in the spring of 1991 in Europe and Nippon. In the rest of the world likewise equally the band'southward dwelling country Federal republic of germany the album was delayed until April 1992 due to the ongoing legal battle between the ring'southward electric current and erstwhile labels. Past that time the music landscape had changed drastically. It likewise did non help that Helloween moved even farther away from their speed metallic roots and further cover the hard rocking side of their audio. As a result, Pink Bubbles Go Ape failed commercially and tensions started to build amidst the band members.[15]

They played their first testify on their "Quick How-do-you-do Tour" in Hamburg 30 April 1992 and continued with some more dates in Europe and the band also went to Japan in the autumn of 1992.[16] [17]

The follow-upwards Chameleon was released on EMI in the summer of 1993. The very experimental album was a commercial failure. The band'south diversion away from the sound that had fabricated them famous alienated a large portion of their fanbase.

The original drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg was then fired from the ring due to his deteriorating mental state.[15]

"We started to notice something was wrong with him when we were on tour, with all that road pressure" remembers Weikath. "Ingo had a strange behavior... he did foreign things and we noticed something was seriously wrong with him. We lived with him and we could see his changes". [18]

Grosskopf said 1996:

"It was like he had two people in his mind: the good and the evil. He told me the evil was e'er talking to him. It was very strong in him, he was very depressed. We decided to give him professional assist, 'cause nosotros could not help him. It was besides serious."

Schwichtenberg could not exist part of the band anymore until he recovered from drugs and booze abuse and took his medications against schizophrenia. After a long phone call with Weikath, in which he explained why they had fabricated that hard and painful decision, Schwichtenberg was asked to get out Helloween.

He was replaced by session drummer Ritchie Abdel-Nabi on a temporary ground to cease the Chameleon Tour. Also many of the European dates were cancelled. Helloween played in one-half-filled venues and their decision to focus the setlist mostly on Chameleon and Pink Bubbling songs did not help either.

Weikath said 1994 most Kiske and the Chameleon Tour:

"During that bout nosotros played seven concerts and cancelled the balance. Kiske said he had a throat illness, but we all thought it was panic. Your vox disappears when yous are frightened or on panic. It looked like he just stayed static on stage, and when I said to him to move and requite a better impression to the audience, he said that I was diminishing his authority on stage. I didn't detect that fun, because he did his acts on stage, and they weren't spontaneous like before, he was only standing still to sing better, and that showed u.s. that the songs from "Chameleon" weren't good for shows. I understand, the album could be interesting, simply on the eyes of the fans we weren't able to play it live. It was similar rice for us: Gluey, but not tasty!" [19]

Meanwhile, the conflicts inside the residual of the band worsened and the decision was made to fire Kiske. His last operation with the band was at a Clemency testify at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg 22 December 1993, until he returned to the stage with Helloween 24 years subsequently.

Kiske did non have any contact with Grosskopf and Weikath for many years. He would after release soloalbums with dissimilar musical directions. In 2008, Kiske released Past in Different Means; an album featuring near of his sometime Helloween songs, albeit rearranged and re-recorded acoustically. Commenting on Kiske's dismissal, Grosskopf afterward said:[xx]

"People idea we were crazy for firing a singer like Kiske, but so afterward all those years and listening to what he's doing at present I hope people volition understand why we did that decision. Otherwise he would have pushed the states into the direction where he is going now and we didn't want that."

1993 would come to a close for Helloween with no vocaliser, no drummer, and no record contract (EMI released the band from its agreement for the low sales numbers for Pink Bubbles Go Ape and Chameleon).

Weikath said 1994:

"Well, EMI said nosotros didn't sell enough records for their gustatory modality. They had to pay a lot of pre-production costs and sadly we weren't able to sell enough albums for them to take their money dorsum. The fans were disappointed. Start with "Pink Bubbles Go Ape", and now with "Chameleon". We nonetheless sold 400.000 copies of "Chameleon", but we made a deal with EMI and changed our label." [nineteen]

Grosskopf connected:

"That was a time when nobody understood each other. There was too much arguing. Someone wanted it this fashion, the other wanted that style. We didn't accept anything to lose. The three of us sat down and decided to brainstorm again."

First years with Andi Deris and return to the roots (1994–2000) [edit]

Helloween returned in 1994 with former Pink Cream 69 frontman Andi Deris equally their new pb vocalizer and Uli Kusch, formerly of Kai Hansen's Gamma Ray, on drums. The band already knew Deris from some recording sessions in Hamburg, though both Deris and new drummer Uli Kusch played on the ring s next album Master Of The Rings, which was released on eight July 1994, they were temporary members of the band dorsum during the recording sessions, simply they eventually became permanent members of the band on 1 September 1994.[twenty] He had been approached by Weikath to bring together the ring in 1991, merely he had declined, despite being intrigued past the offer and having to deal with emerging conflicts between him and his band. In the years since, however, Kiske was fired from Helloween and the bug within Pinkish Cream 69 worsened. Faced with the inevitability of his firing, Deris accepted Weikath's offer during a night out with the ring members.[20] With this new lineup and a new tape contract with Castle Communications, Helloween released its comeback anthology, Chief of the Rings.

eight March 1995, original drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg committed suicide by jumping in front of a train in his native Hamburg. In the years since his deviation from Helloween, Schwichtenberg had gotten worse from schizophrenia. 1996's The Time of the Oath was dedicated to his retentivity.

Following another world tour, a double live anthology called Loftier Alive was released. In 1998, Helloween released Ameliorate Than Raw, 1 of the band's heaviest albums since the full-length debut. The subsequent supporting tour was fabricated upwards of stops in Europe, Japan and Brazil, but on 20 Dec 1998, the ring visited New York and played a show at the venue Coney Island High in Manhattan, the first show for Helloween in the United States in nearly a decade.

The band would follow Better Than Raw with a 1999 release titled Metal Jukebox, a cover-anthology featuring Helloween's versions of songs from such bands as Scorpions, Jethro Tull, Religion No More, The Beatles, ABBA and Deep Purple.

Line-upwards changes (2002–2004) [edit]

2000 saw the release of The Dark Ride, a more than experimental and darker anthology than their previous releases. It came complete with downtuned guitars and a gruffer singing style from Deris. Immediately following the tour, Helloween parted ways with guitarist Roland Grapow and drummer Uli Kusch.[20] One version of events states that Weikath, Deris and Grosskopf felt that Kusch and Grapow, in particular, were spending more time on and paying more attention to their new side-projection, Masterplan (Grapow's output on Helloween albums had dropped to barely i vocal per album by that betoken); since the others believed that Kusch and Grapow were non ane hundred percent dedicated to Helloween, they were dismissed.

They were replaced by guitarist Sascha Gerstner (ex-Freedom Call, Neumond) and drummer Marker Cross (ex-Metalium, Kingdom Come, At Vance, Firewind), culminating with the recording of another studio album, titled Rabbit Don't Come Piece of cake, in 2003. The band met Gerstner via a recommendation by producer Charlie Bauerfeind. According to Grosskopf, 1 day he was recording something with Freedom Phone call "and afterward on we called him up and he went to commencement run across Weiki because information technology was very important that Weiki finds a actor that he can play with and also communicate and understand. [...] And then we got him on the island where we recorded and allow him hang out with us a little and then he decided 'Good, permit's go'."[20] After in 2012, on an interview with Metallic Shock Finland's Master Editor, Mohsen Fayyazi, Grapow stated:

I felt very secure in Helloween. In the middle of the tour I said something to Michael and Markus and I said my opinion near something. I wanted to make something the all-time for the band and I remember they misunderstood me, like I wanted to be leader. I was telling the truth and that's how I am... It was a great time in Helloween... but I am happy when I left the band subsequently Dark Ride considering information technology's one of my favourite albums, it inverse my life totally.

[21] [22]

Cross could not stop the album due to mononucleosis, completing only two tracks; the drum tracks were completed by Motörhead'south Mikkey Dee. Stefan Schwarzmann, former drummer of Running Wild and Have would shortly thereafter take over the drumming duties. Despite a somewhat tepid response to the album, Helloween notwithstanding completed a successful world bout, highlighted by the return of classic songs such as "Starlight", "Murderer", and "Keeper of the 7 Keys" to the setlist. Additionally, the band toured the The states for the start time since 1989, playing to sold-out crowds at nearly every venue.

Steady line-upwardly (2005–2016) [edit]

2005 saw still another line-upwards alter, following the "Rabbits on the Run" bout, as information technology became apparent that Helloween and Stefan Schwarzmann did not share the aforementioned musical vision. As further noted by the band, he had some trouble performing fast drum parts,[20] so he was replaced past Daniel Löble, the former drummer of German metallic band Rawhead Rexx. A modify in tape visitor also followed equally they inked a deal with German characterization SPV. Any fears that what had now become a revolving door of band members would bear upon the quality of their new album were laid to rest as Helloween's new studio anthology, titled Keeper of the Vii Keys – The Legacy, was released on 28 Oct 2005 in Germany and 8 November in the Us to commercial and disquisitional acclaim. The album had a pre-release single, "Mrs. God", every bit well as a video for the track. The track "Low-cal the Universe" was released as a single on 22 November, featuring Candice Night of Blackmore'south Night on guest vocals. She also appears in the video clip for that track.

In late 2006, Helloween filmed and recorded shows in São Paulo (Brazil), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Tokyo (Japan) for their alive album Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Bout 2005/2006. The DVD also featured extra footage of the band, likewise as interviews and a road movie. This was the 2d Helloween live album to characteristic Andi Deris as frontman and third overall. Information technology enjoyed chart success in several countries: Germany: 9 (DVD) & 58 (CD), Sweden: 9 (DVD), France: 10 (DVD)[23] Helloween has since completed their studio album Gambling with the Devil, which was released on 23 October 2007. Information technology received many positive reviews, with well-nigh fans praising the album as existence one of the best Deris-era albums. Despite beingness one of Helloween's heaviest albums, it is noted for featuring more keyboards. "As Long as I Fall", the showtime single, was released in early on September and simply available via download (save for Japan, where it was released on CD). The video for the song is available at their official site.[24]

Helloween teamed up with Kai Hansen'southward electric current band Gamma Ray for their 2007–2008 "Hellish Rock" world tour, which started in early November 2007. Helloween were headlining and Gamma Ray were labeled as the "very special guest" with most shows also having fellow High german "guest" Axxis. The bout went through Europe, Asia and South America, likewise as a few dates in the Us. The bout is notable for Kai Hansen stepping on phase with his former ring fellows Weikath and Grosskopf to perform hits "I Want Out" and "Future World" in the concluding encore segment of Helloween.[25]

On 26 December 2009, Helloween released the Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary album in Japan. The album was released on 1 Feb 2010 in Europe. The album is a compilation of ten of the band'south best known songs, re-recorded in unlike musical styles than the original recordings and by the current lineup. Information technology features a seventeen-minute "Keepers Medley", recorded past a 70-piece orchestra from Prague, mixing together "Halloween", "The Keeper of the Seven Keys" and "The King for a 1000 Years". There is a express edition digipak, including a thirty-infinitesimal "making of"-DVD with interviews and studio footage. The ring's website states that the album was released on 13 April 2010 in North America via Sony & THE END RECORDS labels.[26] On xiv May 2010, it was announced on their site that they were working on a new studio album,[27] which was the fastest and heaviest effort in years.

Helloween released their thirteenth studio anthology, 7 Sinners, on 31 October in Europe and 3 November in the U.s.a.. Before its physical release, the ring made it available worldwide for streaming via their Myspace page. The name of the album alludes to the seven deadly sins. Co-ordinate to Andi Deris, the album goes straight to the indicate: "After an acoustic anthology, we needed definitely something that shows the people without whatsoever question that this is a metal album."[28] The ring toured to promote the new album with Stratovarius and Pinkish Cream 69 equally their guests.[29] [30] On 5 Apr 2011, via the band'southward website, it was announced that seven Sinners was awarded 'Gilt status' in the Czech Democracy.[31]

In June 2012, Helloween entered the studio to brainstorm recording their fourteenth album, Directly Out of Hell, which was released on xviii January 2013.[32] They and then went on tour around the world with Gamma Ray again.[33]

In September, Helloween played at Rock in Rio 2013 with former fellow member Kai Hansen as a special guest.[34] In October 2014, the ring appear a new album for a May 2015 release. It was produced past Charlie Bauerfeind at Mi Sueño Studio on Tenerife and marked their return to the Nuclear Blast characterization with which they released The Dark Ride and Rabbit Don't Come Like shooting fish in a barrel.[35]

On 26 February 2015, the ring revealed the name and the comprehend artwork of the album, My God-Given Right, released on 29 May 2015. The artwork was created past Martin Häusler.[36] [37] In June 2015, information technology was discovered that the ring members were working on a book, released as "Hellbook".[38] Grosskopf stated that it is "a kind of history volume with lots of pictures".[39] [40] [41]

Pumpkins United (2016–present) [edit]

In November 2016, information technology was announced that former members Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske were re-joining the band for a globe tour titled the Pumpkins United World Tour, that would showtime on xix October 2017 in Monterrey, United mexican states, and conclude the following year.[42]

"Kai said something like, 'Michael, if we don't ever do anything once again under the name of Helloween, we're simply idiots.' [...] and I simply said, 'You know what, Kai? I'm open.'"

—Michael Kiske in 2017, on when Kai Hansen convinced him to perform with Helloween over again.[43] [44]

Although Hansen had been occasionally appearing as a guest on Helloween shows for a few years, Kiske had been particularly reluctant in interviews to the thought of performing with Helloween again due to bad blood with Markus Grosskopf and especially Michael Weikath, dating from when he was fired from the band in 1993; this started to change in 2013, when he ran into Weikath at the Sweden Rock Festival.[45] He stated in 2017: "The first thing [Weikath] said was, 'What take I washed that you tin can't forgive me?' That was the first line he said to me. And I realized that I had forgiven somehow a long time ago without noticing. That's how it all started". It was Hansen, who had been his bandmate as a role of Unisonic since 2011, who ultimately convinced him in 2014.[43] [44] Other pop one-time members Roland Grapow and Uli Kusch were not asked to re-join, with Grosskopf stating "it would exist too many people".[46]

This new line-up released an original vocal, "Pumpkins United", on 13 October 2017, as a gratuitous download (with a vinyl release on eight Dec), on which Deris, Hansen and Kiske all share atomic number 82 vocals.[47] The Pumpkins United World Bout started in Monterrey, Mexico on 19 October 2017. The kickoff show saw both Deris and Kiske performing songs from their respective Helloween albums and sing duets together, while Hansen performed lead vocals for a medley of songs from Walls of Jericho. The show besides included a tribute to the late original Helloween drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg.[48]

Even so, Kiske started suffering health bug related to his voice shortly earlier starting the tour, to the betoken where after the first two shows in Mexico, his involvement for the next dates was unsure.[48] [49] He was cleared to perform past doctors in time for the next bear witness in San José, Republic of costa rica on 23 October, although his disease forced the band to temporally remove a few songs from their setlist, and to have Deris, Hansen and Gerstner support him more vocally.[50] [51] [48] After accusations from fans of Kiske using lip sync on the more vocally demanding parts of some songs, Kai Hansen confirmed that Kiske had indeed partially used taped vocals, but only for the tour's opening show in Monterrey, and because the band feared they would have to abolish the evidence, equally Kiske felt unsure he would exist able to perform at all due to his illness.[48] On 28–29 October 2017, the ring recorded their concerts in São Paulo, Brazil for a future alive anthology and DVD.[52] [53]

Nigh a potential studio album nether the Pumpkins United line-up, Deris stated in March 2018: "Nosotros certainly have lots and lots of talks [about information technology]. This summer, if the chemistry goes on like this, and so everything is possible. After recording that particular "Pumpkins United" song, nosotros realized that it's like shooting fish in a barrel working together. [...] Yeah, it was no problem at all, equally if we would have worked together for decades already. And then, I could run into an upcoming anthology for the future. If the chemistry stays the manner it is now, I definitely would say 99 percent yep, nosotros're going for it."[54] When they were interviewed together in June, Weikath stated: "We don't actually feel like starting with information technology because information technology's going to be a lot of work and it's going to have a lot of time and correct now, we are kind of comfy with what we are doing, so to say. So, we are not lying. It'southward very easy to say; we are simply besides lazy to get started with that", while Hansen stated "There's a lot of ideas in the room for what nosotros do adjacent and so on. But, nothing is kind of decided. Nothing is ripe for the decision. We leave that open up, kind of."[55]

On 21 August 2018, the band appear that, at the request of their characterization Nuclear Blast, the Pumpkins United line-upwards would perdure after 2018, and that a live CD and DVD for the Pumpkins United World Tour would be released in early 2019, followed past a new studio album to be recorded afterwards that year for a planned 2020 release, with Weikath, Hansen and Deris acting as a "songwriting trio"; this will be their starting time studio anthology to feature Hansen since Keeper of the Seven Keys: Role II in 1988 and the get-go with Kiske since Chameleon in 1993.[56] The Pumpkins United World Tour concluded on 22 Dec 2018 in Hamburg.[57]

On four October 2019, Helloween performed at the 2019 edition of Rock in Rio[58] and on the same day the alive DVD/Blu-ray United Alive and the live anthology United Live in Madrid, both recorded during the Pumpkins United World Tour, were released. The kickoff comprises recordings of the band's performances in Madrid WiZink Middle (2017), at Wacken Open Air 2018 and in São Paulo (2017) and the 2nd is a recording of the full performance in Madrid, with songs recorded in shows in Prague, São Paulo, Wacken and Santiago interim every bit bonus tracks.[59]

On 26 November 2019, the band published a video in which they shared that they had begun recording their next album in Hamburg and that they were planning to resume touring in late 2020.[sixty] On 1 June 2020, Helloween confirmed that they had postponed their autumn European tour to the leap of 2021, due to the COVID-nineteen pandemic. The band also appear that they had "decided to shift the release" of their new album to early next twelvemonth; with 6 years between My God-Given Correct and the new anthology, this marks the longest time betwixt 2 Helloween studio albums, as the band had never previously spent more than three years without releasing a new studio album.[61] On 25 March 2021, Helloween releases in Nippon their new book, an encyclopedia called Seven Keys United Memorial: Consummate Collection of Helloween.[62]

In March 2021, it was appear that the band's first anthology with the Pumpkins United line-upwardly would be titled Helloween, and information technology was released on xviii June 2021.[63] [56] [61] [64] The anthology topped German charts and also reached number one in sales in other countries.[65] [66] Following the success of this album, the ring launched a comic book and a line of collectible action figures inspired by the bands' cover artwork and lyrical lore.[67]

Band members [edit]

Timeline [edit]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Metal Hammer Awards (GER)

Discography [edit]

  • Walls of Jericho (1985)
  • Keeper of the 7 Keys: Part I (1987)
  • Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part Two (1988)
  • Pinkish Bubbles Go Ape (1991)
  • Chameleon (1993)
  • Master of the Rings (1994)
  • The Time of the Oath (1996)
  • Meliorate Than Raw (1998)
  • The Dark Ride (2000)
  • Rabbit Don't Come Easy (2003)
  • Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy (2005)
  • Gambling with the Devil (2007)
  • 7 Sinners (2010)
  • Straight Out of Hell (2013)
  • My God-Given Right (2015)
  • Helloween (2021)

Bibliography [edit]

  • Hellbook (2015) [69]
  • Seven Keys United Memorial – Complete Collection of Helloween (2021) [70]
  • Helloween: The Total History (2021)[71]
  • Helloween: Seekers of the Seven Keys Comic Volume (2021) # Several bug [72]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helloween

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