HELLOWEEN "Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy"

[Wyvern]

"Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy"

TRACK LISTING:

CD 1
01 The King For A 1000 Years 13:54
02 The Invisible Man 07:17
03 Born On Judgment Day 06:14
04 Pleasure Drone 04:08
05 Mrs. God 02:55
06 Silent Rain 04:21

Total Playing Time: 38:56

CD 2

01 Occasion Avenue 11:04
02 Light The Universe (feat. Candice Night) 05:00
03 Do You Know What You`re Fighting 4? 04:45
04 Come Alive 03:20
05 Shade In The Shadow 03:24
06 Get It Up 04:13
07 My Life 4 1 More Day 06:51

Total Playing Time: 38:45

LINE-UP:
Andi Deris - vocals
Michael Weikath - guitars
Sascha Gerstner - guitars
Markus Großkopf - bass
Dani Loeble - drums

- The new studio album is a double CD with nearly 80 minutes playing time

- The CD comes in a high quality digi-pak with 6 flaps

- Blackmore`s Night singer Candice Night is doing a wonderful vocal appearance on the track "Light The Universe"

Check out the album cover here: http://www.metal-rules.com/news/Helloween-Keeper.jpg

Damn now I'll have to get the album, I'm a fan of Candice Night

 

[wdiv]

If it's <80 minutes, then why is it a double cd???
Hate when the record labels pull that kinda shit.

 

[Wyvern]

If it's <80 minutes, then why is it a double cd???
Hate when the record labels pull that kinda shit.

Dunno, today technology allows to you record nearly 80 in one CD with decent sound. Maybe to artificially increase the CD price (which considering it's Helloween not Iron Maiden can be a bad move). Maybe they will add some multimedia track and run out of space

 

[Fangface]

I don't know what to think about that... this record will have to live up high expectations.
I guess their new label SPV asked them to make a follow-up to Keepers so that the sales would be at least decent this time.
Still I think it's a good idea to make 2 cds instead of one, there's probably a concept behind that and I'm not fond of 80 minutes long records.

 

[Wyvern]

The 7th song of CD2 comes also in the single and it's very good. I'm trying to d/l the Japanese single to check 1st song of CD1. But the single song itself (5th of CD1) is really baaaaad.

 

[wdiv]

Maybe it's got some video track or some BS like that to justify the 2nd disk. I actually thought that record labels didn't like disks to be 2 disks, since it hurts sales.

I think they're gonna have a real tough time trying to live up to the Keeper's legacy.


Speaking of belated sequals that can never live up to the originals... has there been any news of late regarding the supposed QR Mindcrime II album?

 

[Electronicoil]

Speaking of belated sequals that can never live up to the originals... has there been any news of late regarding the supposed QR Mindcrime II album?

They played a track off of it when they opened for Judas Priest in Dallas a couple months ago. It was ok. Not mind-blowing good, but better than some of the tracks off their recent albums.

I might be tempted to get it. Not that I'm not skeptical it will be mediocre, but because I'm interested in what they're going to do with the storyline.

 

[wdiv]

I might be tempted to get it. Not that I'm not skeptical it will be mediocre, but because I'm interested in what they're going to do with the storyline.

I'm very skeptical that it will be mediocre or worse.... We'll see!

 

[Wyvern]

Finally I heard 1st track/CD1 and it's a great, great one. 13:56 minutes of pure Helloween, owes a lot to the early Deris era, but also has great soft passages interlocking female ethereal voices and keys, to give a neat prog-power vibe. The guitar work is excellent, it seems Weikath and Gestner are truly integrated now.

Maybe the most technical song Hellowen has wrote in their history, and a great companion to 'Halloween' and 'Keeper Of The Seven Keys'

 

[SickBoy]

Maybe the most technical song Hellowen has wrote in their history, and a great companion to 'Halloween' and 'Keeper Of The Seven Keys'

Well, I hope you are right, I'd really love to hear Helloween back to the good old days when they were one of the best. But that stupid single bothers me to death!

 

[Wyvern]

Well, I hope you are right, I'd really love to hear Helloween back to the good old days when they were one of the best. But that stupid single bothers me to death!

'Mrs. God' sucks über-time, the sole idea of that song in the album makes me mad. At least I know that 'The King For A 1000 Years' and 'My Life For One More Day' are really, really good songs.

Also I expect a lot from the song with Candice Night, which increase points to the album

So from 13 songs, it's a 2-1 so far. Of course a full hearing (K-T) will be advisable prior to any purchase.

 

[D-KOM]

This album is the last way to get money out of the rotten corpse Helloween now is. To make a big sensation of the titel and make people remember of the "ancient times" of Heavy Metal seems to me only a marketing gag to get more than 500 copies sold. harhar Seriously, since the leaving of Michael Kiske the band fall deeper and deeper down the spiral of shit. I am not pessimist, but realistic and so I think that to release an album similar to the Keepers is impossible for this Helloween LineUp.
Does anybody hear something from the solo stuff Kiske has recorded? If not, than be glad, it´s even shittier than the new Helloween...

 

[T.I.E.]

as the great Abba said :

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world

 

[Fangface]

This album is the last way to get money out of the rotten corpse Helloween now is. To make a big sensation of the titel and make people remember of the "ancient times" of Heavy Metal seems to me only a marketing gag to get more than 500 copies sold. harhar Seriously, since the leaving of Michael Kiske the band fall deeper and deeper down the spiral of shit. I am not pessimist, but realistic and so I think that to release an album similar to the Keepers is impossible for this Helloween LineUp.
Does anybody hear something from the solo stuff Kiske has recorded? If not, than be glad, it´s even shittier than the new Helloween...

I thought his first solo album was ok, if one doesn't expect speed metal of course. The following stuff, on the other hand... meh.

Still I don't think Helloween went that crappy in the 90's, Time of the Oath, Better than Raw and Dark Ride are good records IMO.

 

[Wyvern]

Still I don't think Helloween went that crappy in the 90's, Time of the Oath, Better than Raw and Dark Ride are good records IMO.

Their best as a matter of fact. I don't expect the new one to live to that legacy (pun intended) but I hope a better outcome that RDCE or "Chameleon"

 

[D-KOM]

In my little world, both Keeper albums will eternally be inviolable!
The best thing Kiske did since he left the band was his cooperation with the Edguy-guy on the two Avantasia albums. There he shows what a great singer he still is, regardless of the shit he released with his solo bands...

 

[wdiv]

as the great Abba said :

I'd opt for At Vance's version of the song

 

[Wyvern]

I'd opt for At Vance's version of the song

It's funny but there are better covers of ABBA work, do you have the Metal tribute to ABBA? I recommend it extensively, even if only for Therion, Sargant Fury, Rough Silk and Glow.

 

[wdiv]

So has anybody heard this cd yet?

 

[Wyvern]

So has anybody heard this cd yet?

Hear it yes although I lost the files when my comp was stolen. The album it's available today supposedly, I'll have to include it on my next haul.