Metal Reviews

How is Pink Cream 69?? I've not heard them yet. Any good?

Well, Walls Of Jericho wasn't an EP for one thing, and in any case, Kiske didn't feature on either it or the Helloween EP.

The Hansen era was Helloween's best, I won't dispute that. The Kiske years are a different matter - two excellent albums, two very suspect ones.


I like the Hansen era best, its heavier and more aggressive, and the soloing and guitar work is masterful. Kiske Era comes next. Their two most commercially succesful albums came out in that period.....Chameleon and the other one were complete crap, but when taken in context....that being that Keepers 1 and 2 both had Kiske and hansen on them....I don't understand how you could say that Deris/era helloween is better than Kiske's...when their two greatest albums were released in that time period. I dont care about ratios, the fact that the keepers albums had Kiske on them puts them so far above Andi Deris and the watered down shit they play now.

The mini album is still my absolute favorite, then comes Walls of Jericho then Keepers 2 and then 1. My list stops there. none of the new stuff is worthy of being on that list.

As for the Deris era, the only album I'm not convinced of is Rabbit Don't Come Easy, which I still haven't listened to in great detail. The previous four are all enjoyable and in fact displayed a great album-to-album progression.

Hansen-era on vocals?? No way in hell!

Have you ever noticed when discussing long-running bands with people, oftentimes they claim to like the first couple albums better than everything else the band has released?

I mean, how many have said that the early Helloween is the best, the Brainstrom thread has people claiming the first two albums are the best, people say the first two Iced Earth albums are the best, too! It's weird because a lot of time it's hard to believe someone could actually believe that. It's almost like a band comes out back in the day, people really like them, but then get sick of the band and simply say the early stuff is better instead of admitting they don't really like the band anymore! Hahaha. Very strange.

Or, you know, they just like the early stuff better.

Horror Show was their peak.

Not really. Iced Earth did peak at Night of the Stormrider.

The Dark Saga was their lowpoint. What a boring album (except for, of course, A Question of Heaven). Luckily, Something Wicked was awesome.

I wonder how many metal fans actually realize Helloween is a semi-Christian band.

Kiske wrote only 2 songs on the Keepers album (You Always Walk Alone & Rise and fall) which i thought were the weakest of the album. After Kai left the band, Kiske got a much more major part of the songwriting and he wanted to do rock albums instead of metal albums that the rest of the band wanted. Therefore the next 2 albums were that they were.

I think you all should thank KAI HANSEN for the Keepers albums! Indeed it's a little bit odd to do Keepers III without the biggest player in the team during KeepersI&II, but after listening to this single i really think that this can be worth its name!

I think those songs are great. I love every song on the first four releases...none of them are weak...except for maybe Reptile on Walls of Jericho. And just because Weikath is still in the band doesnt mean that this new Keeprs allbum will be good...he's only half of the magical guitar duo that gave us the first two keepers albums....and frankly he's the lesser of the two.

Bah...there are definitely a few weak songs on those albums, more than the two you mentioned. But I guess it's possible you just like bad music!! 8)