HELLOWEEN — Walls of Jericho (review)

HELLOWEEN — Walls of Jericho album cover Album · 1985 · Speed Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Ride the sky...

Genre: speed metal / power metal

This is the debut full-length release by power metal legends Helloween, and it contains nine well crafted tracks which draw on pwer metal, speed metal traditional metal and also a bit of thrash metal.

The guitar distortion is quite dirty for a Helloween release, but that adds a welcome sense of brutality; I think this album also contains some of the most aggressive and brutal riffage ever produced by Helloween (such as the main riff of "Ride the Sky" and the opening riff of "Guardians"). Unfortunately, as was typical of 80s metal, the entire production is drowned in reverb which muddies everything up.

I think that the weakness of this album is Kai Hansen's shrill and rather thin voice. I mean, he was a great guitarist and songwriter already back then, but he sure wasn't the geratest singer in the world. Fortunately, his annoying singing does not ruin the listening experience in its totality.

I'd recommend this to fans of German speed metal, German pwer metal and traditional and thrash metal as well.
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Unitron wrote:
more than 2 years ago
For me, 'Ride the Sky' is simply one of the best openers to any album.

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