Hellowe are a German power metal band from Hamburg. Formed in 1984, the group was originally a quartet featuring Kai Hans on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Michael Weikath on lead guitar and backing vocals, Markus Grosskopf on bass and backing vocals, and Ingo Schwichtberg on drums. The band's currt lineup includes constant members Weikath and Grosskopf, alongside Hans (who rejoined in 2016 after leaving in 1989), co-lead vocalists Michael Kiske (from 1986 to 1993, and since 2016) and Andreas Andi Deris (since 1994), rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Sascha Gerstner (since 2002), and drummer Daniel Dani Löble (since 2005).
The band signed with German heavy metal label Noise Records before the d of the year and released their self-titled debut EP in April 1985.
After the group issued their debut full-lgth album Walls of Jericho later the same year, Hans decided to step back from the role of lead vocalist to focus on his guitar playing. After a lgthy process of trying to find a replacemt, in November the role was filled by Michael Kiske.
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Keeper of the Sev Keys: Parts I and II followed in 1987 and 1988, respectively, before Hans left completely on New Year's Day 1989 due to the ever-increasing stress of touring.
With new guitarist Roland Grapow, the band released two studio albums – Pink Bubbles Go Ape in 1991 and Chameleon in 1993 – before more lineup changes occurred. During the 1993 tour in promotion of Chameleon, Schwichtberg was fired due to drug addiction and mtal health issues, with Riad Ritchie Abdel-Nabi taking his place for the rest of the shows.
By the d of the year, Kiske had also be fired after growing tsions betwe the two members had led Weikath to refuse to work with the vocalist.
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After firing two members in late 1993, Hellowe returned early the following year with new vocalist Andreas Andi Deris and drummer Ulrich Uli Kusch.
In a statemt issued the day after the official announcemt, the dismissals were credited to differces in priority, with a spokesman for the band adding that It was felt Roland and Uli were paying too much time and atttion to their solo projects. After a very successful tour behind The Dark Ride album Michael, Markus and Andi felt quite rightly that the focus of Hellowe members must be 100% on Hellowe.
Hellowe remained without a second guitarist until August 2002, wh it was announced that Sascha Gerstner, who had left Freedom Call a year earlier, had joined the band.
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Recording subsequtly began for the group's next album, however Cross was forced to sit out after contracting mononucleosis, with Mikkey Dee of Motörhead taking his place in the studio.
The lineup remained stable for more than t years, before it was announced in November 2016 that founding member Kai Hans and former vocalist Michael Kiske would be returning to Hellowe for the Pumpkins United World Tour starting the following year.
At the start of the tour, the newly expanded group released the single Pumpkins United, featuring Kiske, Hans and continuing vocalist Andi Deris on vocals.Helloween are one of Germany’s premier heavy metal bands. Since 1984, they have blended power with melody, hard-rocking grooves with technical flash, and written an enduring soundtrack for the lives of several generations of metal-hungry music fans. These ‘Fathers of Power Metal’ have sold over 10 million records worldwide and are festival headliners to this day.
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Over the years, there have been – as you find with many big bands – several lineup changes. Normally, each of these lineups represents on era for the band, and fans can zone in on whichever of these eras they prefer. Not so with Helloween, because they are back with no less that seven band members from different ‘ages’ of Helloween’s history! Back in the fold is Kai Hansen, beloved vocalist & guitarist from the 1984-89 period, who shares lead vocal duties with two other members: Michael Kiske, the band's vocalist from 1986-93 (he returned in 2016, like Haisen), and Andi Deris, who has sang with the band since 1994!
One man who has been in the band for an uninterrupted stint since the beginning is lead guitarist Michael Weikath. With the release of Helloween’s newest self-titled record, we managed to get hold of Michael (not 45 minutes out of his bed but still full of wisecracks and good cheer) from his home in Spain to talk about this historical line up, the writing process for their bombastic new record, and some tasty facts surrounding his custom made guitars!
: So, let’s talk about the new record then! There’s a big line-up this time: there’s 7 of you in the band! How was it in the studio with such a blend of classic members and newest members?
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Michael Weikath: Actually, we’re kinda like a family. Now that I’ve seen other interviews of everyone else and what they’ve said, and so I’m not mistaken when I said a few things before. Actually, I’m glad that the other guys also see it that way. It’s kind of like, you have a good knowledge of every character involved, and it makes the whole thing lovable if you see it form a different point of view. Like, in the past, there’s always been ego problems because of fame and bad contracts. Nowadays it’s like, ‘Yeah, he’s got this habit of doing this or that’ and, you know, it’s rather cute (
GG: From what I gather, there are a few different members contributing to the writing. Is it a situation where you all bring in songs, and you all work on each other’s songs?
MW: More or less! What we did was, everyone did their respective demoes on their home systems. Then we met in April 2019 and we played those demoes to each other. Kai Hansen, who took a little longer with
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Till November of that year – that was actually the time when we started the pre-production phase. For two months, we worked over all these things, all the details, arrangements, tunings, tempos and whatever. That took quite some time and when it was finished, we went in to record the final drums on 24 track analog tape.
, which I believe is one of yours...do the other members have an equal say on how this song develops or does the writer have veto?
MW: Yes, the writer always has the final say in a way, except someone would run into a situation where everyone would say, ‘You know, your song just bloody sucks!’ (
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) right? Then it’s, ‘No, but I think it’s amazing!’ and the rest are thinking it’s a bunch of bollocks. Luckily, it didn’t really happen that way. It happened in different ways, like, ‘Oh, this is a pretty nice B-side!’
I’m lucky: I brought across all the stuff that I wanted to bring across and I have a fair say in those things. It always depends on what you are able to gather together, from the violins hanging up in the heavens, if you want to get to that level and put in in your demos or whatever, if that comes across as very convincing, then you’re on the lucky side.
GG: Certainly. Of course, with any band where there are a number of guitar players, there can sometimes be issues about who plays what, where and how. You have three guitarists! Was that ever a difficult thing to manage?
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MW: Not really, I mean, we are lucky. I mean, we have similar playing styles. As the readers may know, you can’t take just any 3, 4, 5 guitarists, put them together because they would differ, in big ways sometimes. One guy might have a vibrato in his fingers that goes really cool and smooth, and he would really fit with another one who would go like (mimes a wider vibrato sound). Just yesterday I had a listen to Gary Moore. I think I’ve always known him quite well from what there was, and now there’s this posthumous album they put out. It’s got a track on there that’s called
. He’s doing his feedback thing and he’s actually doing vibrato faster than I would’ve remembered: I’ve seen him perform many, many times.
. On that track that I mentioned, if they’d added choirs and things, it could have been a monster of a track. Now it’s real simple and basic with some guitar and Hammond organ, that’s about it. And so, that would have suited...the way he plays is on the faster vibrato style already, but still in the area of ‘it’s the right thing to do’. Its arguable (with more than one player) that if one goes, ‘I do my tones like this’ and the other goes ‘I do my tones like this’, like if one guy goes for a lot of mids and the other guy goes, ‘Actually, I hate mids’, you’re never going to match, ever. Right?
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MW: We all prefer a particular tone that goes into, I don’t know, Scorpions, Michael Schenker, whatever. Then we go, ‘Oh, that’s a pretty nice tone there!’ and we tend to agree on those things.
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