Helloween - Tournée reformation! 2017-2018

dupinguez a écrit:Et que les Keepers soient les deux meilleurs albums de speed mélodique de tous les temps, ça se discute. Je trouve que ça vieillit pas forcément hyper bien.

Dark S. a écrit:

Pietro a écrit:Hum, si la setlist se limite aux 4 ou 5 gros tubes des Keepers plus un best of de la période Deris... ben ça va rien changer par rapport à ce qu'ils jouent en ce moment.

Ben ouais. Franchement cette annonce ça ne change pas grand chose, on aura juste la présence du chauve sur quelques titres, bon, ok, voilà. Ce n'est que l'aboutissement de plusieurs années de tergiverscense, et ça arrive bien trop tard. En tout cas ça sent vraiment le sapin pour Gamma Ray, mais en même temps ce groupe est arrivé en bout de course.

Et sinon, le meilleur album de Power à l'européenne c'est Thundersteel de Riot, évidémment.

Dark S. a écrit:Tu aimes Thundersteel ? Tu es un mec bien ! Ah oui c'est vrai, tu les chroniques sur les éternels.

J'aime beaucoup les Keepers, mais aucun titres dessus ne me fout autant la chair de poule que "Bloodstreets" ou la super pêche (juppé style) que le title track.

Je rappelle d'ailleurs que le dernier album de Riot est également excellent (et enfonce toute concurrence en la matière) et que le groupe tue en live.

A few translated quotes provided to the Michael Kiske fan site Kiskelized follow below.

On who triggered the reunion:

Michael Weikath (guitar): "Kai has been way ahead of us. It has always been clear to him. The reunion is what Kai had wanted to do and he has been proposing over the years."

Michael Kiske: "It was Kai who gave me the final push to do this. It was me who said, 'Let's do this.' HELLOWEEN members have been making statements to imply a reunion, and the management must have thought about it for a number of years, but they never talked me into this. I brought it up backstage, and [HELLOWEEN/UNISONIC manager] Kosta [Zafiriou], of course, heard it and it started to roll from there. Everyone was waiting for me to say the word."

On Kiske's thoughts on the reunion:

Michael: "It is important to do this under the name of HELLOWEEN. It will be interesting and fun. We are planning many things, but it will be a fun healing process for me. I feel wonderful and relieved. It cannot be done in any other way."

"It's great to be able to do this reunion. I don't want to die leaving a problem unsolved. I feel very relieved now that I don't have any resentment anymore. This is very important for me. The reunion idea was gradually expanded inside of me. One day, I realized that I had no more hard feelings against HELLOWEEN."

On Kiske and Weikath repairing their relationship:

Michael Kiske: "When we met for the first time after a long time, you [Weikath] asked me, 'What did I do to you that you cannot forgive me?' And I said, 'I had forgiven you a long time ago.'"

Michael Weikath: "Honestly, I have been wanting to reach out to Michael for a couple of years. I have his phone number, and I have been thinking, 'Why not just call him?'"

On the possibility of Kiske singing Andi Deris-era HELLOWEEN songs:

Michael: "I think I should sing songs from Andi's era as well. Andi has been singing the old songs, and it's good idea for both of us to sing songs from each other's [eras]."

Kai: "We are thinking about having Andi and Michael sing together, sing in duet, and share vocals. Isn't it more interesting that way? I can do vocals, too. Sing in harmony and duet as well. We have three singers in this seven-member HELLOWEEN. Or, I may rephrase: Two singers and one shouter."

Roland Grapow a écrit:Dear Helloween Fans
thank you for asking me the last couple of weeks, about
why i am not being a part of that Helloween Reunion Tour,
to be honest,
i was never asked

i am in friendship again with all of the Weenies (Weiki, Markus, Andi, Sascha and Daniel and i had a several meetings the last 2-3 years, but we never talked about that possible reunion tour.

i knew about that possible reunion many years already, heard rumours and some information before, but no one called or tried to get in contact with me about that.

i am not sad or bitter due the misinformation of the recent Michael Kiske interview, maybe that is the info he just got from someone.

So, i wish you all a lot of fun with the reunion tour, together with Kai and Michi
and now you know all, why i am not being a part of it.
thanx a lot...

Roland

On why former HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow (1989-2001) isn't involved in the reunion tour:

Kiske: "As far as I know, they asked him [to take part in it], and he didn't wanna do it. That was the information [I was given]. He's probably still hurt. I know how it feels. When this stuff is fresh, it's difficult."

Pietro a écrit:

Pietro a écrit:Quelqu'un sait si Gamma Ray existe encore ? Parce que entre Unisonic où il a rejoint Kiske, son album solo et maintenant cette reformation de Helloween, j'ai un peu l'impression que Hansen a lâche l'affaire (déja qu'il avait lâché le chant dans son propre groupe !)...

Je croyais pas si bien dire: GAMMA RAY Members Launch UNITY; Debut Album Due In 2017

Pietro a écrit:Y aura au moins un nouveau morceau.
WEIKATH Says There Are Plans For HELLOWEEN To Record At Least One New Song With KISKE, HANSEN

Helloween a écrit:WHOA.

The PUMPKINS UNITED WORLD TOUR is going to be raw awesomeness! The news of Andi, Michi, Kai, Weiki, Sascha, Markus, and Dani turning in a unique premiere and entering the stage together has struck like a bombshell. Allow us to briefly show off with some numbers: The Super Tour, with plenty of dates being sold out for a while now, will be witnessed by more than 10,000 in Mexico City, 16,000 Brazilians will be rocking out in Sao Paulo, 9,000 have checked in at Santiago de Chile while in Stuttgart there’ll be 6,000; 8,000 can’t wait until the Milan show and finally there will be ultimate mayhem at the mega highlights in Prague with 12,000 tickets sold as well as in Madrid with, believe it or not, 14,000 (!) Spanish Pumpkinheads. No wonder, the metal press features hardly any other band in its cover stories and the world’s biggest metal mag “BURRN!” dedicates an unbelievable 41-page spread to PUMPKINS UNITED. This world tour will be forever unforgettable for the entire band and far more than 100,000 HELLOWEEN maniacs all over the planet.

WHAT?!

As we all know, HELLOWEEN is addictive – and so the boys can’t wait for the tour to start either and are releasing yet another sensational announcement while hunkering down in the rehearsal room: PUMPKINS UNITED are not only preparing to share the live stage, but have also written and recorded an exclusive song together. This year, Christmas and New Year’s eve happen in October, because the aptly titled track “PUMPKINS UNITED” blends everything that has made this band world-famous and a true trailblazer of an own sub genre: power guitar riffs, three-part guitar solos, double bass thunderstorms, and melodic-anthemic choruses soaring above all else, performed by all three singers of the band’s history! So this track is all about maximum “UNITED feeling” and a dream hardly anyone thought would come true. And now for the cherry on top: As a thank you to all fans for a quarter of a century of HELLOWEEN mania and decades of loyalty, “PUMPKINS UNITED” will be available via www.helloween.org from October 13 as a FREE DOWNLOAD!

WHO-HOO!

PUMPKINS UNITED airlines is ready for take-off: Tour riders have been sent long since, the crew is loading the flight cases, the new track is on repeat, and the boys are properly pumped up because the eagerly awaited kick-off in Mexico on October 19 is just around the corner now. But whether you have tickets or not: We highly recommend to stay tuned – for who knows where this unbelievable PUMPKINS UNITED journey will lead to from here ...

Pre-order the 10" vinyl single now (release: December 8th, 2017): http://nblast.de/HelloweenUnitedNB