Helloween

Helloween with special guests Beast in BlackWednesday, 19 November 2025Unipol Forum, Milan, Italy "40 years gone in the blink of an eye" This particular concert ended up being a solo ride. All the usual suspects were tied up with…

Released: 8/27/2025 on Reigning Phoenix Music / VictorProduction: Dennis Ward and Charlie BauerfeindLength: 50:47Genre: Power Metal "Down the Well-Worn Tracks" What's a smart thing to say about the new album from some of the…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 6/18/2021Production: Charlie Bauerfiend & Dennis WardAlbum length: 65.05 min.Genre: Power MetalRating: 9.5/10 German power metal giants Helloween are back with their sixteenth studio…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 2. 4. 2021Production: Charlie Bauerfiend & Dennis WardSingle length: 19.32 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 "Skyfall" is the first single from the upcoming new studio album by…

It was the first year of the new millennium when Iron Maiden dropped their comeback album with the re-recruited "deserter" Bruce Dickinson. It was an album of salvation, an album of relief, an album that landed at the right time in the…

"Every single show was sold out in advance. The European leg came closest to Slovenia on 12.11.2017, when Helloween played Munich, and then two weeks later at the Aegon Arena, a tennis hall in the Slovak capital Bratislava, where RockLine…

Helloween, today seen in many ways as the pioneers of power metal, have reunited with Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen while keeping their current lineup. That took them from a quintet to a septet, and they've named the massive world tour…

The album is full of bizarre arrangement choices, and this time Helloween are a shadow of themselves. It's been glued together badly. An album of total gray mediocrity that you can easily give a wide berth.

On »Masters of the Rings«, an unexpectedly successful and witty return to the victorious power metal battlefield, Helloween rose from the ashes like the mythical phoenix and made happy everyone who had already given up on them in the early…

»Chameleon«, a short detour into 'prog/pop metal', is the most eclectic album in Helloween's entire history, and in pumping in fresh ideas it took a lot of guts and a willingness to walk away from the usual, expected, demanded…

Every Helloween fan who expected another epic masterpiece after the "Keeper" era got a cold shower with "Pink Bubbles Go Ape", which also turned out to be a major commercial flop.

»Live In The U.K.« is far from perfect, mostly because of its short running time, which means plenty of beloved Helloween favorites are missing. Still, it remains the only official live document to date from the most successful and popular…

»Keeper Of The Seven Keys – Part II« is the ultimate power metal album and one of the most influential achievements in the history of Teutonic metal, still inspiring legions of more or less successful music enthusiasts today.

The first part of the »Keeper Of The Seven Keys« saga may be a bit less appealing than its more famous and more fun conceptual follow-up, released a year later, but it still stands today as one of the best and most important albums in the…

The speed metal masterpiece "Walls of Jericho" was quite possibly the best debut by any Teutonic metal band of the eighties. It earned Helloween a well-deserved cult status among the metal crowd of the time, and among those music fans who…

Helloween signaled their charge to the very top of Teutonic metal already on their first EP, which had little in common with their later power metal triumphs, and it made for one hell of a warm-up before the cult debut "Walls Of Jericho"…

"The Pumpkins are no doubt one of Germany's biggest bands and will always be welcome here, but they're capable of way better, and that setlist could really use a serious shake-up. Gamma Ray, on the other hand, blew everyone away."

The second edition of the Hellish Rock tour, which pairs the two biggest names in German power metal, Gamma Ray and Helloween, finally made a stop in Ljubljana!

Dani Löble is one of the best drummers in modern Euro power metal. As the first drummer and driving wheel of the rhythm section in Helloween, a band that in many ways defined the very idea of European power metal, he's been with the…

»Straight Out Of Hell« ranks, alongside »Gambling With The Devil« (2007), as the most polished and expressively complete "post-The Dark Ride" era Helloween album. A "brighter" record than "7 Sinners" (2010), with more of the band's…

Venue: Sziget / Budapest (Obudai) / HungaryConcert date: August 10, 2011Attendance: 60Ticket price: €45.00 (one-day ticket price) Here's an exclusive report from this year's edition of the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary! …

Location: Messegelände / Balingen / GermanyDate: Friday, 15.07.2011 And so day two of BYH!!! 2011 rolled around. Let me just hint that we were freezing in our tents at night, with the temperature hitting a measly 6° C…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Messegelande / Balingen / GermanyConcert date: 15.07.2011Attendance: 14Ticket price: 80€ (two-day ticket) And so the second day of BYH!!! 2011 rolled around. Let me just hint that…

The morning of the festival's third day, and breakfast too, were still riding high on the previous day's shows and served up more of that heated debate about heavy metal, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, but it couldn't go on forever...

Location: Kaufbeuren / All Kart Halle / GermanyDate: 02/11/2011 The day after the Accept show in Munich (report here), another big heavy metal event went down just ninety kilometers away in Kaufbeuren. Helloween rolled into the…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: All Kart Halle / Kaufbeuren / GermanyConcert date: Feb 10, 2011Attendance: 3000Ticket price: €37.00 The day after Accept's Munich show (report here), another big heavy metal event went…

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: January 26, 2011 The thirteenth studio album, "7 Sinners" (2010), has finally brought the Hamburg pumpkin-heads to the Slovenian capital! For the second time overall. Almost…

Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / CroatiaDate: 25.01.2011 Helloween are one of the most important European metal bands, since they were one of the key acts behind the boom of heavy-power metal in Germany and Europe in the late eighties.…

Helloween are more than just one of many bands - they're a foundational pillar of modern heavy metal and a franchise that promises great music and a mix of speed, melody and heavy metal classics.

Dani Löble is one of the best drummers modern European power metal has to offer. He joined Helloween in 2005 and has released three studio albums and one live album with the band.

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Kino Šiška / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 26.01.2011Attendance: 850Ticket price: 25,00€ The thirteenth studio album, "7 Sinners" (2010), has finally brought the Hamburg…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: January 25, 2011Attendance: 600Ticket price: 210.00 HRK Helloween are one of the most important European metal bands. They were one of the key acts…

"7 Sinners" is proof that the inventors of European power metal, Helloween, don't always have to stick to the adjective "happy". A black album and one of the heaviest in the band's career. "Heavy heavy Helloween!"

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: All Kart Halle / Kaufbeuren / GermanyConcert date: December 22, 2007Attendance: 3500Ticket price: €32.00 For you to really want to see the same concert a second time, it has to be a…

A chance to sit down at the same table for a chat with legendary Helloween bassist Markus Grosskopf doesn't come around every day. The guy is a true pillar of the European heavy metal movement today, since he lives and builds it practic

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Studentski kulturni centar / Belgrade / SerbiaConcert date: 16.11.2007Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 2.400DIN The Hellish Rock 07/08 tour. Helloween. Gamma Ray. Belgrade. Is there even…

There's no need to introduce Helloween. Behind them is a career of almost twenty-five years that has made them pioneers and one of the biggest acts in European power metal, one that has put out twelve studio al

Location: Idroscalo (Milan) / ItalyDate: 03.06.2006 A rundown of melodic European power metal, spiced up with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus left at midnight, and with the lovely, uplifting vocal soundtrack of mostly…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Idroscalo / Milan / ItalyConcert date: 03.06.2006Attendance: 18000 A revision of melodic European power metal, spiced with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus pulled out at midnight, and with…

Helloween have made a more than obvious 180-degree U-turn into "reverse"! After two big names, Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow, left the ranks, "Rabbits Don't Come Easy" (2003) already hinted at it, of course. O&#

In 2002, the elder statesmen of German power metal decided to put out their first real "best of" album, not counting "The Best, the Rest, the Rare" (1991), and a double one at that. After the departure of guitarist Roland Gra

After a short hiatus in which some major lineup changes went down, here comes a "transitional" but solid record from the band that founded power metal and, for many, is still the best at it

Location: Vienna (Austria), Planet MusicConcert date: 07.11.2003Attendance: 800Ticket price: €26.00 Finally! Helloween closer to home on tour, a mere 450km away. Rage as the support act were the main reason I bit my lip and brushed aside…