Helloween with Kai Hansen AND Michael Kiske

I sure do hope they play a date near me:

http://pumpkins-united.helloween.org/en/pumpkins-united-world-tour-2017-2018.html

That would be awesome. I got the strangest feeling that they won't be coming around here though.

Wow!

Never thought I'd see this.

So how does it work? Everyone plays the songs they recorded?

Sweet!

...but will they bring it to the US?

I will go and see this if they come near me!

i'd love to see this if it comes anywhere near me.

Pass a new Gamma Ray or Deris fronted Helloween. F*ck Kiske.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Sweet!

...but will they bring it to the US?

It's supposed to be a world tour. I'm sure it will only hit all the major markets in the States. I'd love to see them!

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I signed up to get the song but won't be able to check it out until later.

It's a good song. But I'm not sure Hansen & Kiske's vocals elevate the song as much as I was hoping they would.

It's not the glorious epic I somehow imagined it to be.

I'm not feeling it with that song, very meh.

Checked it and it is ok. I have learnt never to have high hopes for such reunions.

i like it. Sounds like Helloween and that is just fine for me.

Is deris still with the band?

Hmmmm, I never got the email. Better try again

007 wrote:

Hmmmm, I never got the email. Better try again

Mine came almost immediately, but it went straight to the spam folder. It took me several hours until I thought of that.

Check yours. Somehow it might not pass the filter.

Lari wrote:

007 wrote:

Hmmmm, I never got the email. Better try again

Mine came almost immediately, but it went straight to the spam folder. It took me several hours until I thought of that.

Check yours. Somehow it might not pass the filter.

if you cannot find it let me know and i will send it over. I am working on my Helloween covers album (Helloween songs covered by other bands) and am thinking of putting this song on it just because...

It's a good tune, but I wish they did something a bit more epic, something where each vocalist could shine a bit more.

Anyone catch them on the tour?

Saw them live the other day at the Masters of Rock festival in the Czech Republic. They put on a great show, and Michael Kiske still sounds AMAZING live. I'm just sad they didn't play some songs I'd like them to have played, like Victim of Fate, Rise and Fall or Where the Rain Grows - and many other Deris era songs that I'd say are actually better than some of the ones that were played.
Anyway, I definitely recommend seeing them on this tour if one gets a chance to!

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Saw them live the other day at the Masters of Rock festival in the Czech Republic. They put on a great show, and Michael Kiske still sounds AMAZING live. I'm just sad they didn't play some songs I'd like them to have played, like Victim of Fate, Rise and Fall or Where the Rain Grows - and many other Deris era songs that I'd say are actually better than some of the ones that were played.
Anyway, I definitely recommend seeing them on this tour if one gets a chance to!

That's because the Deris era blows away the Kiske/Hansen eras. Also, "Rise and Fall" is one of their worst songs. That's why they didn't play it.

Well tbh, the best stuff they did with Deris are the the first four albums and Gambling with the Devil. Surely could have played something off that instead of, say, Are You Metal?
They did play a couple of songs from the EP and Walls, but Victim is my fav song from that era...and it got left out.
Rise and Fall rules. :p

I got tickets to see them in NY in September, can't wait.

Do they have any plans to release a new studio album? I lately picked up Kai Hansen's latest album, Hansen and friends, and found it to be highly enjoyable.