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Kai Hansen, foresawing the difficulties to take the lead guitar and singing roles, decided to focus just on the guitar part, and so the search for a new vocalist begun, which ended in the former Ill Prophecy singer Michael Kiske being hired. This lineup change was key in the band's success, with the albums ''Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1'' and ''Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 2''.
 
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 (Music)|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 Continuity|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.
 
However, this was not the end of the band. Michael Weikath took the control of the band and hired the singer Andreas "Andi" Deris, from the band ''[[Pink Cream 69]]'', as well as ex-[[Gamma Ray (Music)|Gamma Ray]] drummer Uli Kusch. This change made the band to return to their roots, and continued to prosper in the international metal arena on their own terms, with the release of the album ''Master of the Rings''. More importantly, they remained the benchmark by which most every power metal band is still measured.
 
In 1995, however, there was sad news: Ingo Schiwchtenberg was profoundly depressed and [[Driven to Suicide|committed suicide]] by throwing himself to the subway rails. This hit hard in the band, who dedicated the album ''The Time Of The Oath'' (a [[Concept Album]] about a Nostradamus prophecy) to his memory.
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** Another example is the aforementioned Weiki (whose full name is Michael ''Ingo'' Joachim Weikath) and the late drummer ''Ingo'' Schwichtenberg, who played in the first 5 albums.
* [[Trrrilling Rrrs]]: When speaking in Spanish, Andi can't avoid these.
* [[Start My Own]]: After ''Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 2'', Kai Hansen left Helloween. Several years later, he formed [[Gamma Ray (Music)|Gamma Ray]]. Also, as noted above, Roland Grapow and Uli Kusch, who were fired from the band and created Masterplan.
* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]]: Kai Hansen quit the band over [[Creative Differences]] and went on to form [[Gamma Ray (Music)|Gamma Ray]]. Apparently, giving him room to have his own band and removing Michael Kiske from the equation was enough to calm both sides down, as the personnel from Helloween and Gamma Ray now get along quite amicably and even tour together, concluding their concerts by [[Fusion Dance|taking the stage simultaneously to form one big supergroup]], and as ''[[Portmanteau|Gammaween]]'', they perform [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cVRnTcEuS8 "I Want Out"]. In that video, they certainly ''look'' [[Ho Yay|friendly]]. And this is older than the 2008 joint tour, as his appearance in the Wacken Open Air 2004 can testify. And to make things better, he said in an [http://metalassault.com/Interviews/060410_Gamma_Ray.php audio interview], that he liked the Gammaween tour, and that he won't dismiss the chance of doing another tour like that.
** Also, Michael Kiske did guest a guest appearance on Gamma Ray's ''Land Of The Free'' album in the mid-90s, did guest vocals for Roland Grapow's and Uli Kusch's spinoff band Masterplan ([[What Could Have Been|and would have agreed to be their studio vocalist altogether, just not to performing live]]) and is working on a side project with Kai Hansen and Roland Grapow as well, trying to write, according to Hansen, some softer songs for him because of his "Metalphobia".
 
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