Helloween & Gamma Ray

[Kalata]

I could create an album, maybe even two, purely consisting of bonus tracks

An album consisting of bonus songs...

Spoiler

1.We Unite
2.Deliver Us From Temptation
3.Far Away
4.Livin' Ain't No Crime
5.Find My Freedom
6.Golden Times
7.Walk Your Way
8.Revolution
9.Faster We Fall
10.Save Us
11.Pumpkins United

Top-notch album! Btw, 8 of all those songs are written by Markus Grosskopf.

honourable mentions: ''Save My Hide'', ''Another Shot Of Life'', ''I'm Free'' and ''See The Night''

 

[Black Bart]

An album consisting of bonus songs...

Spoiler

1.We Unite
2.Deliver Us From Temptation
3.Far Away
4.Livin' Ain't No Crime
5.Find My Freedom
6.Golden Times
7.Walk Your Way
8.Revolution
9.Faster We Fall
10.Save Us
11.Pumpkins United

Top-notch album! Btw, 8 of all those songs are written by Markus Grosskopf.

honourable mentions: ''Save My Hide'', ''Another Shot Of Life'', ''I'm Free'' and ''See The Night''

Don't forget "A Game We Shouldn't Play".

 

[KidInTheDark666]

Out of all their bonus tracks See the Night and Free World are my favorites. I can't comprehend why they weren't included on Gambling with the Devil and My God-Given Right.

 

[GhostofCain]

Not sure if this interview has been shared here:

How Helloween buried the hatchet and returned with one of the best albums of their career

With differences sorted, a new-look seven-piece Helloween followed a successful world tour with a fruitful trip to the studio. But will the love last?

www.loudersound.com

 

[Kalata]

How Helloween buried the hatchet and returned with one of the best albums of their career

With differences sorted, a new-look seven-piece Helloween followed a successful world tour with a fruitful trip to the studio. But will the love last?

www.loudersound.com

The band will stay United and at least one more albums is on the way:

Weikath: ''We are going on forever, together. It’s the most suitable thing to do.''

''We agonised over whether or not to include a ballad [it was eventually saved for the next album], and the final running order was actually put together by Markus Staiger, the boss of our record company, who really got involved.'' - wut...

 

[Onhell]

An album consisting of bonus songs...

Spoiler

1.We Unite
2.Deliver Us From Temptation
3.Far Away
4.Livin' Ain't No Crime
5.Find My Freedom
6.Golden Times
7.Walk Your Way
8.Revolution
9.Faster We Fall
10.Save Us
11.Pumpkins United

Top-notch album! Btw, 8 of all those songs are written by Markus Grosskopf.

honourable mentions: ''Save My Hide'', ''Another Shot Of Life'', ''I'm Free'' and ''See The Night''

Um, isn't Save Us an album track on Keepers II? Or are we in a Gangland situation in which it was added into later CD pressings?

 

[GhostofCain]

Um, isn't Save Us an album track on Keepers II? Or are we in a Gangland situation in which it was added into later CD pressings?

Gangland was always part of The Number of the Beast. Very underrated song if you ask me.

 

[Forostar]

A very regular song indeed, available on most album releases, worldwide. Same goes for earlier "bonus" songs.

Here my fav bonus tracks from the Grapow era (1991-2000), a very, very good time of the oath bonus tracks. Would be a great album.

"You Run with the Pack"

Grosskopf

3:54

"Can't Fight Your Desire"

Deris

3:45

"Star Invasion"

Deris, Weikath

4:47

"Still I Don't Know"

Deris, Grosskopf

4:13

"Walk Your Way"

Grosskopf

4:56

"Back on the Ground"

Kusch, Deris

4:40

"A Game We Shouldn't Play"

Deris

3:38

"The Madness of the Crowds"

Deris

4:12

"Deliver Us from Temptation"

Grosskopf, Weikath

4:54

 

[Onhell]

Gangland was always part of The Number of the Beast. Very underrated song if you ask me.

Really? I thought I read in the commentary that it wasn't in the LPs and it wasn't added until the 98 CD reissues....

 

[KidInTheDark666]

That's Total Eclipse.

 

[Forostar]

Really? I thought I read in the commentary that it wasn't in the LPs and it wasn't added until the 98 CD reissues....

Total Eclipse.

 

[GhostofCain]

Really? I thought I read in the commentary that it wasn't in the LPs and it wasn't added until the 98 CD reissues....

Total Eclipse is the song that was not on the original pressing of The Number of the Beast with the exception of the LP version released in Japan (and perhaps some other territories).

 

[Forostar]

I was checking discogs and it may be Japan only.

 

[Onhell]

So I know the last THREE comments said Total Eclipse, but I still had to check to make sure

 

[GhostofCain]

I was checking discogs and it may be Japan only.

I did not want to categorically say Japan and then have someone even nerdier than me tell me I had forgotten the Indonesian pressing.

 

[Jer]

GAMMA RAY To Release '30 Years Live Anniversary' Album In September

Hamburg, Germany's GAMMA RAY has delivered impressive statements of its own musical philosophy to the worldwide heavy metal community for more than 30 years now. Founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the famous German power metal band HELLOWEEN, GAMMA RAY recorded 11 studio...

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Well, it’s something, at least.

 

[Forostar]

My son found a resemblance between the opening of the Russian/Soviet anthem and the start of Out for the Glory's chorus by Helloween:

start here for the anthem: click
start here for the Helloween chorus: click

 

[Kalata]

Curious thing about Helloween album cover:

The cover art was painted by hand by Eliran Kantor and selected against a number of digitally created images. Markus Staiger (founder of Nuclear Blast) was initially against it and tried to convince the band to chose another one, but the musicians' opinion prevailed.

 

[MindRuler]

the musicians' opinion prevailed.

Like it should be.
Oh wait...DOD cover.
Forget my reply.

 

[Yax]

A couple of months later - How do you guys think the latest record holds up? As for me, I don't spin it as much, but I stand by my initial assessment that this is a really, really good record. It is definitely the best since The Dark Ride for me. The average song quality is very high, but it does lack a song of "Keeper of the 7 keys", "Eagle Fly Free" or "I Want Out" level of quality, although I think Mass Pollution comes rather close. It's the top album highlight for me.