Helloween

Since Skyfall came out, I compared it to "And Then There Was Silence" because I felt both songs had something in common. Now I feel that both albums have something in common, as if they were concept albums, in their own way but very good, maybe it will take time for the public to say good is not bad but the best they have released in recent years from 7 sinners that the sound was almost the same.

"Helloween" is like a mix of the band in the 90's Better Than Raw type with influence of the keeper era and a sound at times semi dark reminiscent of The Dark Ride but closer to Rabbit Don't Come Easy. Personally, it doesn't sound like Unisonic or Place Vendome as some have mentioned. It is an album not the best but if perhaps what many of us expected, there are very good songs that will surely sound great live. But this self-titled album reminds me of what Blind Guardian did in 2002 which was to risk giving another concept to their work. The album sounds like something new because it does not totally resemble any previous era, it is something new taking the best of other eras. It is the first work in years with Hansen and Kiske, the result does not seem bad to me, rather very typical of the band so as not to depend so much on the Keeper era that many were clamoring for it.

I loved the sound of this album, many consider it similar to My God Given Right but to be honest I don't see it that way. With Kai Hansen on guitars again it gives a heavier touch that as mentioned reminds me of the band in the last years of Roland Grapow and Uli Kusch on the albums Better Than Raw and The Dark Ride with keeper era's elements. Although "Helloween" takes the best of each album, that also in a certain way makes the compositions and sound take their own attributes that make it not similar to an era that they have already demonstrated will not return, the Keeper era. The band wants to do something new with Kiske and Hansen back in the band.

Personally, this is the musical work I have been waiting for since the release of the first single, both voices in different songs make it something unique, many people may not like that because they continued with the idea of ​​the Keeper era formula returning. I give it the score selected for risking to do something conceptual of not repeating formulas, especially the one that they had been following from 7 sinners to My God Given Right, this seems like their own from now on to the best that Keeper has done to Legacy, which to my liking it seems like a concept album that sometimes characterizes a self-titled album by any band, it doesn't get 100 because I expected a twin or similar sound to Gambling with the Devil. I'm sure it will be an underrated album like Blind Guardian's A night at the Opera was at the time, but time will prove this work. Maybe the only difference in this work is that the band is more united than ever compared to Blind Guardian that the drummer ended up leaving the group. Helloween comes with everything in this new material.