HELLOWEEN To Release 'Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary' In December

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

DR. STEIN video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVY4CK8ciJw

What's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes. "God-awful."

"Dr Stein" was never high on my list of Helloween favorites, but I never dreamed they'd figure out a way to make that song even MORE annoying!!

This lends further proof to my theory that saxophones have no place in metal, by the way.

Seriously, wow...that was bad. Didn't SPV (Helloween's label) just come back from the brink of bankruptcy? If the rest of this album sounds like that, its release is going to put'em right back there again.

suck

lol you guys are brutal. The album isn't something that everyones going to like. It was done just for fun and nothing else. Yea the should have probably just put a whole new album out or even just redid the songs in the traditional way, but I think this album will be ok. They made it through Chameleon and they'll make it through this. Its better than having another plain old best of, although I wouldn't have objected another live album.

I'm actually getting a kick out of this. Haha.

That video was good fun, I didn't think the new version of the song would work from the samples but I actually quite liked it. Clearly they're just having a laugh and it's better than just a straight re-recording.

The dark ride is in my opinion the catchiest of them all

The Keepers Trilogy Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLEmdofcr4I

The Keepers Trilogy Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmny53sEKnE

I'm listening to this now so I can't really comment but its pretty cool so far.

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

The Keepers Trilogy Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLEmdofcr4I

The Keepers Trilogy Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmny53sEKnE

I'm listening to this now so I can't really comment but its pretty cool so far.

Those are actually pretty cool.

Also - to those who are slamming this album, remember - Helloween has always had a sense of humor. I think this album is just a strange way of them communicating their humor. It's a joke album I think. I'll buy it for the kicks and wiggles if nothing else.

Dr. Stein was funny. The rest was just meh.

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Also - to those who are slamming this album, remember - Helloween has always had a sense of humor. I think this album is just a strange way of them communicating their humor. It's a joke album I think.

Which is all well and good but (to me at least) Helloween's weird sense of humor has never translated into decent music. I'm sure they're funny guys and all but when they do stuff like this it's like listening to an elaborate, private joke amongst the band members that nobody else is supposed to "get."

I can understand what you are saying Freddy. I guess I'm a bit of a Helloween fanboy though.

So forgive my zeal.

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I can understand what you are saying Freddy. I guess I'm a bit of a Helloween fanboy though.

So forgive my zeal.

Forgiven. I'm usually a Helloween fanboy too. When I said "their weird sense of humor has never translated into decent music," I wasn't slamming their entire catalog, what I meant was that I've never found their so-called "funny" songs terribly funny. I do love the band otherwise, but the limits of that fanboy-ness are being severely tested by what I've heard of this album thus far.

I admit that parts of this album suck. But at least some of the songs are pretty cool (for me).

Think of it like this. If you don't like the album, what's the big deal? It's not like it's the next chapter of original material and it's not like it over-writes the original versions of the sons either. It's certainly better than a standard compilation, at least.

Smindas wrote:

Think of it like this. If you don't like the album, what's the big deal? It's not like it's the next chapter of original material and it's not like it over-writes the original versions of the sons either. It's certainly better than a standard compilation, at least.

I agree.

Listening to the album now..... Its pretty cool so far. I didn't really know what I was going to expect from this from the stuff I had heard so far, even though I liked it. Ive been happy with it so far.

Blabbermouth sez today that the UNARMED disc will get a U.S. release in March.

...why such a gap in release dates? By March, everybody in the U.S. who wants to hear it will have either already bought an import copy (paging Phoenix Reign Drummer!) or will have downloaded it, and therefore its U.S. release will be ignored entirely.

The music business really is a strange place.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Blabbermouth sez today that the UNARMED disc will get a U.S. release in March.

...why such a gap in release dates? By March, everybody in the U.S. who wants to hear it will have either already bought an import copy (paging Phoenix Reign Drummer!) or will have downloaded it, and therefore its U.S. release will be ignored entirely.

The music business really is a strange place.

There is probably some legal red-tape that has to be sorted out for the US release date, therefore holding up the release date. But you make a perfectly good point. You'd think the music industry would have started to catch on by now. Stupid.

I wasn't planning on buying it anyway after listening to the samples and watching that wretched "Dr. Stein" remake video ... but these are the kinds of things that I think about late at night when the power's off.

Maybe The End Records (who are releasing the Helloween disc in the U.S.) needed a tax write-off really bad. "I got it, let's belatedly release an album that absolutely NO ONE will want!"

Fat Freddy wrote:

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

DR. STEIN video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVY4CK8ciJw

What's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes. "God-awful."

"Dr Stein" was never high on my list of Helloween favorites, but I never dreamed they'd figure out a way to make that song even MORE annoying!!

This lends further proof to my theory that saxophones have no place in metal, by the way.

Seriously, wow...that was bad. Didn't SPV (Helloween's label) just come back from the brink of bankruptcy? If the rest of this album sounds like that, its release is going to put'em right back there again.

The video was fun enough, but the remake of the song?

I'll buy it. Looking forward to it, actually. Not sure I'll like it, but I dig that they tried to do things different. Unfortunately, I know have to read all the whiny fans complain about them selling out. Haha.

Can this guy sing Kiske's songs properly? Not from what I've heard.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Blabbermouth sez today that the UNARMED disc will get a U.S. release in March.

...why such a gap in release dates? By March, everybody in the U.S. who wants to hear it will have either already bought an import copy (paging Phoenix Reign Drummer!) or will have downloaded it, and therefore its U.S. release will be ignored entirely.

The music business really is a strange place.

Hahaha yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaas? Got mine yesturday. I'm a little mad though because theres a version with a dvd and I didnt get that one in the mail! Stupid amazon! I wonder if the US release will have that dvd.

Eyesore wrote:

I'll buy it. Looking forward to it, actually. Not sure I'll like it, but I dig that they tried to do things different. Unfortunately, I know have to read all the whiny fans complain about them selling out. Haha.

Thats the thing, in interviews with Helloween they say specifially this was just something special to do and not everyone is going to like it. I don't think the whole band was really into the idea at first but they just went for it to do it for fun and not to really be taken so seriously as everyone seems to be. Their next album will be back to normal. For now enjoy the sillyness!

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I'll buy it. Looking forward to it, actually. Not sure I'll like it, but I dig that they tried to do things different. Unfortunately, I know have to read all the whiny fans complain about them selling out. Haha.

Thats the thing, in interviews with Helloween they say specifially this was just something special to do and not everyone is going to like it. I don't think the whole band was really into the idea at first but they just went for it to do it for fun and not to really be taken so seriously as everyone seems to be. Their next album will be back to normal. For now enjoy the sillyness!

That's what I am thinking too. Sure, it'll probably be my least favorite Helloween album. But I still want it. Heck, I need it - for the collection's sake alone. Even if I don't listen to it all that often.

I also like it when bands do something different.