| CD REVIEW Helloween |
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Band : Helloween To celebrate their 25 years of existence, Helloween have made a choice of songs spanning their career and put them on this CD. They could easily have limited themselves by just re-recording the songs or by just re-mastering them, but that's not what they did. Instead they completely rearranged the songs, leaving parts out (guitar solo on "Eagle Fly Free"), adding some unusual instruments (sax in "Dr. Stein"), playing them in an acoustic version and even adding a child choir (on "I Want Out"). If you take for instance The Keeper's Trilogy the three songs "Halloween", "Keeper Of The 7 Keys" and "The King For A 1000 years" the songs were sort of thrown in a blender and to top it of they were on this song accompanied by the 70 men strong Prague Symphonic Orchestra, which unevitably reminds me of what Metallica did a few years ago, a trend soon followed by other groups. To sum it all up, it's a good album with an unexpected approach. 85/100 Erik Morren. |