Rocktopia: Helloween - 'Keeper Of The Seven Keys - Parts 1 and 2' (Deluxe Edition) - CD Review

A Rocktopia / Fireworks Magazine album review by Dave Cockett: When you look at the proliferation of power metal bands we've seen over the last couple of decades, it's easy to take it for granted that the scene has always been there in one form or another. Sure, heavy metal acts have always gravitated towards the hard and aggressive way of doing things, whilst the emergence of thrash in the early 80's introduced the concept of speed metal riffs; but it would take the rise to prominence of a German band that fused the two together to create the blueprint for the future. That band was Helloween, and the ramifications of their watershed 'Keeper Of The Seven Keys' sets still reverberates down the ages. http://ping.fm/RrnvP