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'''Helloween''' is a German [[Power Metal|power]]/[[Speed Metal|speed metal]] band. Alongside Switzerland's [[Celtic Frost]] and Sweden's [[Bathory]], Germany's Helloween were possibly the most influential heavy metal band to come out of Europe during the 1980s. By taking the hard riffing and minor key melodies handed down from metal masters like [[Judas Priest]] and [[Iron Maiden]], then infusing them with the speed and energy introduced by the burgeoning thrash metal movement, Helloween crystallized the sonic ingredients of what is now known as [[Power Metal]].

Sadly, just as they were on the verge of breaking to a wider audience -- even flirting with American success -- the band's meteoric rise was rudely interrupted by internal strife and a string of bad business decisions. Hiring Kiske ultimately proved a double-edged sword -- his iconic work with the aforementioned ''Keeper'' albums was what set up said meteoric rise in the first place, but he then decided he wanted to move away from [[Power Metal]] towards a [[Lighter and Softer|lighter]] [[Hard Rock]], a decision which cost them the departure of Kai Hansen, who would later start [[Gamma Ray]], with Roland Grapow, from Rampage, replacing him. And to top it all, the band was also in a legal dispute with Noise Records about a bunch of nasty legal stuff, which resulted in them not being able to release anything for some time. Everything resulted in two disastrously mellow albums (''Pink Bubbles Go Ape'' and ''Chameleon'') which are best not discussed, [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity|even by the band themselves]], and very nearly finished off the band. As a result of this, both Kiske and Ingo were sacked for the band, although for different reasons. Kiske was fired because Michael Weikath refused to work with him any further, while Ingo was released due to mental and drug-related issues.

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* [[Cover Version]]: "[[The Beatles (band)|Something]]", "[[Judas Priest|The Hellion/Electric Eye]]", "[[Kiss|I Stole Your Love]]", "[[Grand Funk Railroad|I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)]]", "[[Carl Perkins|Blue Suede Shoes]]", "[[Jean Michel Jarre|Magnetic Fields]]", "[[Status Quo (band)|Rain]]", "[[Queen|Sheer Heart Attack]]" and "[[Accept|Fast As A Shark]]". Also, during the "Master of the Rings" tour, they did a version of Pink Cream 69's "Where The Eagle Learns To Fly".<ref>Said band was Andi Deris's previous band before joining to Helloween.</ref>

** ''7 Sinners'' somehow managed to be even more [[Darker and Edgier]] than ''Gambling With The Devil''. Lesee: the two comic songs of the album ("[[Heavy Meta|Are You Metal?]]" and "[[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|Who's Mr. Madman?]]") are very heavy; there're lots of [[This Is Sparta]] in the songs; even in the normal verses; Dani Loble destroys his drumset in any of the songs, even reaching [[Death Metal]] and [[Black Metal]] speeds, sometimes; "Not Yet Today", the intro to "Far In The Future" is chillingly dark... hell, even the ballad, "The Smile of the Sun" sounds pretty heavy. When the band said that this is the most heaviest and fastest album they made, they weren't joking.

* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: The protagonist of "Perfect Gentleman", from ''Master of the Rings'', is bound to a mental institution in "Who's Mr. Madman?", from ''7 Sinners''.

{{quote| ''"Sixteen years have passed since he, one perfect of his kind, the Casanova of his time, crowned himself to conquer the land in craving for lust. Lust, one of the seven deadly sins. Punishment he has suffered. Look at him what did he become, who is he now?"''}}

{{quote| ''I am "le d'Artagnan de coeur"''}}

{{quote| Bad luck if you get a stone,<br />

like the good old Charlie Brown,<br />

you think Linus could be right<br />

{{quote| [[Metallica|I'm your pain when you can't feel]]}}

{{quote| [[Judas Priest|White heat]]<br />

** The [[B -Side]] "Les Hamburgueois Walkways" is inspired by [[Gary Moore]]'s "Parisiennes Walkways".

{{quote| ''"(...) all troublemakers on concerts, PUMA Sportswear, (because of no cooperation) Neil Perry (Sounds): if we sound like Discharge, [[Just for Pun|discharge]] yourself! You don't have any glimpse, '''and everyone who is still spelling [[Spell My Name with an "S"|HELLOWEEN with an "A"]].'''"''}}

{{quote| ''"WARNING! Everybody Who Will Be Writing HELLOWEEN With An "A" Or Tries To Distribute Pamphlets With An "A" Will Be Turned Into A Pumpkin!!!"''}}

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