Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is always a feel good factor that resides deep in the heart of Germany’s Godfathers of Metal, Helloween, that emulates the way the North American stalwarts and British pioneers of N.W.O.B.H.M to such an extent that when the songs of their back catalogue are unleashed, the sound created is one that cannot, must surely not, be ignored.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Thirty years on from the opening salvo and the declaration of war on British and American dominance on Heavy Metal, thirty years since the Walls of Jericho came tumbling down under the pressure of guitar riffs being played as if Joshua’s trumpet had been misinformed of its exact duty in life, the pumpkins of Helloween are reborn once more in arguably the band’s finest and certainly critically advanced album since The Keeper of The Seven Keys Part II.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
From first crashing note to last thunderous moment, Helloween’s latest album, Straight Out Of Hell, is a reminder of the band’s early glory days of Germanic story telling that rivalled the Brothers Grimm in its ability to take a simple idea and give it such intensity and such power that the only clear rivals the metal group were either in the U.K. or in America.