Helloween & Gamma Ray

[Cat Milk Supreme]

Prowler, Rise and Fall is great. You have been told.
Just listened to My God Give Right; loved it. Give us some date you bitches!

 

[NotePad]

I would love to see Kiske sing or at least join in on some Deris songs. There's some great stuff they never play live that they should pull out because Kiske would sound great and some are very classic Helloween power metal. Songs like Salvation, If A Mountain Could Talk, Final Fortune, Dreambound, the list goes on. They have much great material they ignore.

 

[Forostar]

@Ariana I tagged you because I'm not sure if you've seen all these.

So many photos. Gets me thinking these two ex-Helloween members and H might have wanted to do a whole album.

 

[Ariana]

I have, but it's good to have them up here.

 

[Forostar]

Tourdates please.

 

[Black Wizard]

Tourdates please.

Ditto.

 

[Black Wizard]

 

[Forostar]

Sheesh, they're really building it up aren't they? Only this, as of yet:
2017-10-21 Mexico City (Arena Ciudad De Mexico) MX
2017-10-28 Sao Paulo (Espaço Das Américas) BR
2017-10-29 Sao Paulo (Espaço Das Américas ) BR
2017-11-11 Stuttgart (Porsche Arena) DE
2017-11-14 London (O2 Brixton Academy) GB
2017-11-18 Milan (Alcatraz) IT
2017-12-09 Madrid (Barclaycard Arena) ES

 

[Black Wizard]

That's the same thing Iron Maiden did for last year's tour isn't it? Announce the tour in dribs and drabs.

 

[Mosh]

Dream Theater and Opeth both did that too for recent tours. It must be the thing to do now.

 

[Black Wizard]

I got my ticket in a presale this morning.

 

[terrell39]

The tour was announced three MONTHS ago and still no US dates announced (though they were promised). Perhaps they can't find a promoter? Should not have announced the tour then!

 

[Night Prowler]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154456137128907

 

[terrell39]

The tour was announced three MONTHS ago and still no US dates announced (though they were promised). Perhaps they can't find a promoter? Should not have announced the tour then!

Five MONTHS later, still waiting...

 

[rhinohorn]

Helloween will never have problems selling tickets in Europe, Japan or South America.. but the USA ? Perhaps their best bet is to find a co-headliner thats popular in the current US rock\metal concert circuit -or- do a few music festivals .

As much as it pains me to say it, Helloween has always been a niche metal band here in the USA and the casual concert-goer isn't likely to pay $35 to see a german metal band on a nostalgia tour.

Don't get me wrong, I'd give my left nut to see them live and I've already partitioned my piggy bank in anticipation as I suspect I will be flying north or out to the west coast (I cant imagine them playing in the southeast US).

 

[Black Wizard]

And suddenly a sample of a new Helloween song featuring Michael Kiske has appeared.

The quality of the recording is not great so it's hard to make a judgement on those 91 seconds yet. I didn't expect this though. I thought they'd just tour to make a ton of money then go back to their day jobs.

 

[Night Prowler]

It probably doesn't take much to record one cheesy power metal song Doubt they'll make more than one song, but I think they won't stop at this one tour.

But, just in case, I need to go check how much would it cost for me to go to Sofia and back and see if I can make it to this show in December.

 

[Black Wizard]

I'm pretty sure they'll be at festivals next summer. I'm hoping they'll subheadline Bloodstock.

 

[Night Prowler]

You can get a free download of the full song here.

https://www.helloween.org/

Honestly... the lyrics make me ill... It's like they let Joakim from Sabaton write them

 

[Forostar]

Nice warm-up for the tour! Not a big fan of the chorus. But that instrumental part (starting here). Nice.