1704 - Helloween Power 1996

"Power" is a hit track by the German Helloween band, featured as the fourth track and lead single on their seventh studio album, The Time of the Oath. While The Time of the Oath is a dark concept album centered on the apocalyptic prophecies of Nostradamus, "Power" serves as an optimistic contrast. Prior to Andi Deris, Helloween was defined by Michael Kiske's pristine operatic tenor. On "Power," Andy Deris leans heavily into his unique high baritone vocal range. He delivers a performance packed with raspy aggression, attitude, and a "gritty" hard-rock edge that gave Helloween a much tougher, street-ready sound for the mid-90s metal scene.

1505 - Helloween I Want Out 1988

"I want out" is the prototype of a perfect commercial power metal song. The riff is catchy and memorable, the lyrics authentic, the vocal performance powerful, the rhythm section very tight and the chorus an absolute amazing text to sing along with.

1402 - Helloween Twilight of the Gods 1987

"Keeper of the Seven Keys" holds some classic tunes, the pummeling "Twilight of the Gods" , beautifully integrating melody and neoclassical Metal- two things that rarely work so well together.

1119 - Helloween A Tale that wasn´t right 1987

"Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1" is the second studio album from German power metal/heavy metal band Helloween, released in 1987. It marks the first appearance of vocalist Michael Kiske, and is considered to be one of Helloween's best albums, credited by many to be the birth of power metal. The power ballad “A Tale That Wasn't Right” is quite strong. It’s the only Weikath song here but clearly one of his strongest. Kiske vocals gives it a operatic touch.

866 - Helloween I´m Alive 1987

Keeper Pt.1" was the first Helloween-album with Michael Kiske on the vocal helm. The first two earlier releases the self-titled EP in 1985 and "Walls of Jericho" in 1986 were a style resulted form a combination between Metallica and Iron Maiden but it's on this album that their songwriting appears to be progressed and matured, and they take an important step in their musical career and with this album they bring a new genre to the metal scene: Power Metal.
The opening riff of "I'm Alive" is indeed a strong way to kick in the whole album.

470 - Helloween A Little Time 1987

Helloween members had an extraordinary talent and imagination to write most of the songs in "Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 1". By combining very fast drumming, high pitched vocals, melodic and technical riffs with fabulous twin-guitar solos, Helloween achieved to lay the foundations for Power/Speed metal, as it is known today. The heavy "A Little Time" is a memorable cut.

455 - Helloween Eagle Fly Free 1988

This track appears on the second part of the groundbreaking "Keeper Of The Seven Keys part I. "Eagle Fly Free’ opens the album, and it is a speed metal assault. Without stopping for breath, this one manages to weave melody with aggression, and fierce poetics with an intellectual onslaught.The leads are also some of the best the band has put out.

405 - Helloween Metal Invaders 1985

"Metal invaders" is included in the unforgettable "Walls of Jericho". In 1985, Helloween was comprised of power metal ace Kai Hansen on guitars and vocals; Mike Weikath on guitars; Markus Grosskopf on bass; and Ingo Switchtenburg on drums. Kai has a strong, charismatic voice and utilizes it excellently, bursting out with confidence and passion. Just check out "Metal Invaders".

288 - Helloween How many tears 1985

Helloween have been the pioneers of the happy, positive, upbeat sound that today so many bands emulate. "Walls of Jericho" is the first full length album of the band. With its speedy sound, catchy rhythm and Kai Hansen's powerful screams, it is considered to be one of their best works. "How many tears" is a long epic song, which is always played on stage.

235 - Helloween Future World 1987

"Keeper Pt.1" was the first Helloween-album with Michael Kiske on the vocal helm. With the previous two releases (a self-titled EP in 1985 and "Walls of Jericho" in 1986), the band showed to have already found a quite distinctive style.
In 1993 the conflicts within the rest of the band reached critical mass as Michael Weikath refused to work any longer with Michael Kiske. The decision was made to fire Kiske. In hindsight, it is clear that the move away from power metal to pop was Kiske's idea; he had taken on a more vocal role in the band, and did not hide the fact that he disliked Helloween's style of power metal, instead favoring a softer, pop style of music. Helloween returned in 1994 with former Pink Cream 69 frontman Andi Deris as their new lead singer, and Uli Kusch, formerly of Kai Hansen's Gamma Ray on the drums. Deris sings in this live in Sao Paulo in late 2006, recorded for their live album "Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006".
"Future World" can be counted among the best songs the band have ever written, and has become crowd favourites at live-shows.

83 - Helloween Ride the Sky 1985

Not more than a few months after releasing a groundbreaking debut EP bearing their name, Helloween offered up another uncompromising piece of speed metal madness in “Walls of Jericho”, which expanded upon the arsenal of ideas held in common between founder Kai Hansen and almost as prolific songwriter Michael Weikath.
Sure enough, the most ambitious and riff dominated speed metal song of its time “Ride the Sky” follows, featuring one of Kai Hansen’s greatest vocal performances to date. Where on the EP, his voice was quite nasal and a bit off center at times, here his voice is much more focused, though still quite rough and scratchy.

39 - Helloween Halloween 1987

"Keeper Pt.1" was the first HELLOWEEN-album with Michael Kiske on the vocal helm. With the previous two releases (a self-titled EP in 1985 and "Walls of Jericho" in 1986), the band showed to have already found a quite distinctive style (especially with the latter. Helloween started out with plain Maiden-influences, but they created their own sound out of that. This epic cut shows how brilliant and influential this German band became for nowadays Power Metal-bands.