HELLOWEEN — Helloween (review)

HELLOWEEN — Helloween album cover EP · 1985 · Speed Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Genre: speed metal / power metal

This EP certainly contains high quality, minimally cheesy, German power/speed metal which contain everything that Helloween would later be famous for, such as neoclassical shredding, energetic drumming, epicness, inherently melodic guitar riffage and so on. "Starlight", "Murderer", and "Cry for Freedom" (once it gest properly started) are all fast paced speed metal-based power metal tracks, while "Warrior" and "Victim of Fate" are more midtempo, but no less powerful.

My favorite track on this EP is "Victime of Fate" with its fast triple meter style, resulting in the same sort of drive as found in Iron Maiden's "Phantom of the Opera". It also contains an epic Helloween-style chorus and a ballady bridge, which would have worked better with another vocalist.

The weakness of this album is very much Kai Hansen's vocals. His voice has a very raw and shrill quality to it; something which a lot of people will probably appreciate, but his vocal style on this album just is not my cup of tea.

apart from the vocals, this is a very good EP, and I'd recommend it to any fan of German speed metal and German power metal.
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