HELLOWEEN

Release Year: 2006
Artist Origin: GER
Style: dynamic expressive heavy speed metal

with the third full-length [1998] in vocalist Andi Deris era the representative entity of German power/heavy metal starts to feel real robust and comfortable, bravely stepping out of the standard in quite an experimental manner, sharpening their stylistics with a more intense approach and earlier untypical spontaneity - with a few exceptions, it is impossible to predict their still very catchy music anymore, and this factor makes the longtime fans real excited, considering this impetuous recording one of the most spectacular in their career, brimming with intricate guitar lines and complex rhythmic tricks, let alone the exceptional drama fully present; recent European edition with a remastered sound is expanded with liner notes and vintage pictures in the booklet, as well as four extra songs, two of them are live numbers