Listening to Halloween by Helloween for the first time ever⎮Metal Reactions #40

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[@taddei3912]

Best power metal band of all time!!!👌🎃🎃🎃

[@godetonter4764]

Rainbow Rising invented Power Metal, but Helloween was the first True Complete Power Metal band. Similar to what Black Sabbath did with inventing Heavy Metal, but Judas Priest were the first True Metal band

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

@@godetonter4764 Led Zeppelin recorded "Communication Breakdown" two years before Sabbath's debut album. But you're absolutely right about Priest though.

[@jimmyandersson59]

​@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 Zeppelin aint metal.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

@@jimmyandersson59 Wasn't talking about the band as a whole.

[@jimmyandersson59]

@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 fair enough. Have a good Day Sir. ;)

[@simonrobinson10]

Michael Kiske (singer, took over vocals from guitarist Kai Hansen) was only 17 when he recorded this The band had lots of fallouts, new members over he years after their peak in 1989/90 You should check out their reunion show (Pumpkins Reunited) from Wacken on 2017/18 - all 3 singers (Kai/Michael/Andi), 3 guitars, its immense See the 12 minute Keeper of the Seven Keys performance. Its ace.

[@northerchild]

Helloween is a pillar of power metal, kai hansen is the father of power metal he has another amazing band call gamma ray is brilliant... Cheers from colombia so much love and respect for the reaction and give a space a this amazing bands

[@lug23]

Yes, a complete listening of both Keepers is a must 🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️

[@keithdawe8521]

Saw them live at Donnington, Monsters of Rock UK 1988. Their first 3 albums are essential power metal albums.

[@svekkapung]

First one is more speed metal I'd say, but all awesome albums

[@Tearnofear]

saw them a month ago, it was freakin awesome =) sadly Michael wasn't there due to a Cold/Flu

[@Dr_Klops]

In my remembrance the most hyped song of this album was Future World. I didn't know the term "Power Metal" them, we called it simply Happy Metal.

[@OldManTenno]

I’ve listened to this song every year since I got the album in 1987. Freakin’ metal masterpiece. 🤘🏼

[@p1g5m0k3]

It’s Halloween season tradition for me as well every year. 🤘🏻🎃🤘🏻

[@Mike-pl3yi]

I can't wait until you experience Keeper part 2. Oh my god...the vocals

[@justston188]

RIP Ingo

[@imaKaiya]

Tis the end of Moshtober and the celebration of Halloween. Are we ready for today's video? Stay tuned, because tomorrow I have something VERY exciting to announce as we jump into our next Holiday month on the channel ❤

[@evilvolts]

The 1st time I heard Helloween was through a cover of Eagle Fly Free by Lovebites my favorite Power Metal all female band from Japan so I listened to the original by Helloween after hearing their version to compare the two.

[@MorgothAce6099]

listen to the SONG keeper of the seven keys it's also 13 mins long

[@swabia1554]

There is a project called avantasia where tobias sammet the composer openly admitted Michael Kiske being the reason why he wanted to sing. So sammet after a while wrote albums for his favorite singers. So Avantasia features many singers on one album that he wrote songs for and of course MR Kiske is not missing. That is some rabbit hole to go through for itself.

[@djclabbe88]

I've been a metal head for 25 years, I've been too 100s of concerts, and a few rock festivals (Sweden Rock Festival). But somehow I always thought Helloween was some super-heavy-only-scream band, so I never listened to them, I knew zero. Then I saw a reaction to the song Halloween, from their United Alive tour (Madrid), and fuck have I been missing out! They're magical, especially live. And now with both singers on stage. I can listen to that record everyday 🤘

[@djclabbe88]

@Dragon Ball fans can't read I don't know actually. I didn't knew they were a power metal band either at the time. I'm seeing Helloween live next summer 😁🤘

[@NS1.]

I can't believe Michael Kiske was just barely out of high school when he recorded this. He was one of the best of the best 80's metal operatic singers. Up there with Geoff Tate, Bruce Dickenson, Ray Alder, Warrel Dane...I could go on. Hey Kaiya, check out the band 'Sanctuary'. Their first 2 albums from '88 and '90 were total kickass thrash with great vocals and great guitar. They had a video on MTV from their second album. I'm almost positive you'd dig their style. Warrel Dane's (RIP) vocals were tremendous. Edit: Oh! Also, their live version of 'White Rabbit' live in Tokyo. 😎🌹

[@kirbymjk71]

Next up Keeper Of The Seven Keys song from Part 2!!! Also check out Save Us, Judas, Future World, A Tale That Wasn't Right & there is a live version of I Want Out they did from not too long ago & Michael Kiske reunited with them onstage for that which is pretty cool to see Wacken Open Air I believe is the festival it was filmed at. The first song I ever heard by Helloween was I Want Out & what an awesome song, I think you'll really love that one

[@kirbymjk71]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWatdZmuoqudnK8 Here's the link for the live version of I Want Out

[@pablopallone]

You forgot to mention ''Eagle Fly Free'', the anthem of power metal.

[@slugcult1973]

Kiske was really young back when he joined Helloween. 17 years young. And his pipes are STILL killer. I saw them live in January here in New York City. Helloween with Kiske and their other singer Andy, and blew everyone away.

[@matzek6200]

Fantastic band with many many great songs like How many tears, Keeper of the seven keys, Eagle fly free, Dr Stein and many more.🎸🤘

[@MrMadl1]

Check out Keeper Of The Seven Keys (United Alive 2017). One of the best live bands.

[@cirithungol6377]

you should check out the live version of this with both singers on it

[@maddinreiner9061]

Definetly Awesome !!!!

[@KillerwhaleTRX]

He was 16 or so when singin this shit!! One of the best singers of all time......

[@krisamagus1]

no

[@JulianoKM10]

Another great power metal band is Angra. They are the second biggest brazilian metal band in the world, exvept for Sepultura. Songs that you could check are Carry On, Angels Cry, Heroes of the Sand, Rebirth and Temple of Hate.

[@Demiurgo198]

Judas Priest - Painkiller must be next if we're talking about legendary bands and vocals, or I just missed that reaction somehow?

[@JayTor2112]

I never heard the similarity to Bruce, and I've listened to them since '87, but everyone makes that comparison. Other than the style they sing in, the voice was always different to my ears. I suggest the sequel to this song "Keeper of the Seven Keys" from the part II album, and "Skyfall" from the latest album, both 13 minute epics. They are not concept albums, but they have the two long concept pieces that tie them together.

[@enriquecorona1218]

Helloween came in a period of time of Germany, with other similar bands like stormwitch, iron angel, angel dust, midnight darkness, stranger, gravestone, grave digger, black fate.

[@mustainehugo]

The band of my life

[@davidviteris]

Great reaction! Be sure to include "Walls of Jericho" (their first album, and probably the first 100% power metal album ever recorded) in your deep dive!

[@eazye519]

That album is more thrash metal

[@spartanRko2001]

@@eazye519 The choruses in 'Guardians' and 'How Many Tears' are very far away from thrash metal. I think it is more like speed metal, transitioning from thrash to power.

[@josephstevenson552]

Great reaction! This is the first time I've come across your channel. You were spot on in your first assessment that the singer sounds like Bruce Dickenson from Iron Maiden and King Diamond. I had the same reaction almost 40 years ago when it came out! This song is awesome. They are still touring!! You should check out the live versions that have come out in the last few years where they have 2 singers going! I look forward to seeing more of your reactions! Take care!

[@Macovic]

In the topic of music this band (especially during this periosd) was something special… something truly amazing. Hearing this song for houndred times it still gets better.

[@danipino3566]

Yeahh Halloween!! I was pretty into Death Metal in the early 90's and anything without harsh vocals was garbage to me. Helloween showed me the way to the appreciation of the full spectrum of Metal... kaiya, you are wonderful! I love your channel and love your Metal journey. Keep goin'! Greetings from 🇦🇷🤘

[@xristospats2180]

Great! And if you like 13 minutes songs ICED EARTH - "Dante's inferno" should be next..

[@metalmanny666]

Any iced earth so to be featured on this channel would be great. Maybe next year’s Halloween season

[@jawosammadennhier7062]

Amazing reaction of yours. Thank you! 🙂👍👌 Michael Kiske = Miraculous voice ("Stimmwunder") from Germany, with almost 3 octaves. In my opinion, he is still singing powerfully today. Helloween is one of my favourite bands, contributed to the soundtrack of my life.

[@randywissler9923]

He sings with his band Unisonic these days. And he still has those golden pipes!!!

[@gonzalomartinezmetalhead]

Nice reaction! Michael Kiske is a great vocalist and their sound is certainly influeced by Iron Maiden. They are the pioneers of european power metal and in my opinion, the best band.

[@godetonter4764]

They sound like Queensryche, more than Iron Maiden. No Exit Fates Warning also sounds like Helloween a bit

[@naveedchowdhury7135]

Best power metal duo Michael Wiketh and Kai Hansen

[@stromghouls]

michael kiske has a very different voice than bruce dickinson. i can differentiate them instantly. and michael still has awesome voice today. you should check the bands place vendome and unisound where he is older. he has such a beautiful voice.

[@Metzwerg74]

Keeper of the seven keys 1+2.... those two albums are among the very very best, that was ever made in metal history....

[@danielwaggoner8467]

Im not sure if you have checked out the live version of this yet but it is an absolute must!!! Its with the original singer this singer and the later singer all on stage together... words can do the show no justice... the best

[@RmonteiroHQ]

The very first concert i went was a Helloween concert, went to see them 2 other times with different formations, had a blast every time, great performance live!

[@kraylothomason2545]

😂😂😂 she done said Coked Out power metal section 🤣🤣🤣 that was great

[@markuskaufmann3515]

Wow… as an original Halloween fan I never thought of comparing them with either Iron Maiden or King Diamond. But can see where you are coming from 🤘

[@ericarmstrong6769]

Absolutely the pioneers Nobody did this before

[@Freddysbackcountry]

The Godfathers of Powermetal and one of the most Importend Metalbamds in General of Metalhistory🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻

[@kyleadams1655]

I fucking love this album. I found it in a record outlet like 25 years ago. I had never her of them before but the album cover was so bad ass so I bought it. Best decision ever hahaha

[@WDC_wolf]

If you like power metal and concept albums then you DEFINITELY need to listen to Avantasia, especially two first albums (The metal opera part 1 and part 2). Michael Kiske also sings one of the parts on that albums, as well as many other great singers.

[@wobvandijk555]

Masterpiece! Glad you didnt to the much shorter single/video version. Greetingz from the Netherlands \m/

[@michaeljarvis6882]

Sounds like the great kat showed up

[@ericarmstrong6769]

Great analysis.

[@kapfe1933]

Listen to the live version, with their two singers

[@Tearnofear]

I saw them live just about a Month ago. Let me tell you, they are still Toplevel. All 3 Singers from over the Years rejoined and they each sing the Songs of their Period. I listen to them since their first Album :)

[@Orschd]

Concept Albums? Well...don't know if you already heard it, but there is one you will never forget! : The Chrimson Idol - WASP

[@joekidal5797]

Kiske, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), Joey Tempest (Europe), Klaus Meine (Scorpions) are some of the best european heavy metal/ rock vocalist. The 80s were such great time if you're into power metal or glam metal.

[@joelabel7843]

Keerper of the 7 keys live wacken 2018

[@andrewbaldwin9796]

Geoff Tate from Queensryche has a massive vocal range 🤘

[@eazye519]

Keeper of the seven keys the song is their best work. You should definitely listen to that.

[@Kronmizter]

Welcome to the Helloween family!!!

[@pablorodrigodiaz3114]

If you liked this song, listen to its sequel: the epic "Keeper of the seven keys" from the album "Keeper of the seven keys part 2. I think it's even better, see what I mean...

[@shibaanimagaming4433]

There new album is awesome all the old vocalists are on it too

[@Tolucoregonian]

The best way to describe it, Iron Maiden and King diamond colliding. But I also like Merciful Fate and Iron Maiden colliding and creating this amazing band, whom were the greatest when Michael Kiske was their singer.

[@carlgibson285]

It was my younger brother that got me into Helloween. I was 12 and he was 8 at the time lol. I was into the more thrashy side of metal while my brother was a big Maiden and King Diamond fan. My dad bought my brother the Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 2 album, and when I heard the opening track (Eagle Fly Free) I was fully on board immediately. It's kinda sad because I haven't seen my brother or my dad for over 20 years, but every time I hear this band I'm taken straight back to my childhood and my memories of rocking out with the two of them.

[@eazye519]

Call them up. Life is too short to hold grudges. Unless they passed away.

[@Metzwerg74]

if at all, it´s themed about good versus evil, and about making that choice.... just listen to rise and fall...

[@eazye519]

Michael Kiske the lead singer was 18 when he recorded this

[@joebarrera9741]

Agreed Helloween is awesome great power metal band

[@beastrace81]

yessss. great choice. also so funny one of my best friends is a singer in a metal band and is in Asheville right now.

[@HeavyRulezz]

There is a Judas Priest - Nostradamus concept album,amazing stuff

[@christophschmedes5975]

Helloween id one of thev history Metall bands have fun

[@danooch1137]

They also have a Keeper of the Seven Keys : The Legacy that was released in '05

[@narvik9035]

Please, do a three song dive into Helloween: 1. Murderer 2. Ride the Sky 3. Metal Invaders

[@bukeksiansu2112]

Check out another great German power metal band "Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth" Amazing concept album.

[@joeltowner953]

Duelling guitar solo represents the devil and god fighting over the hero's loyalty, the devil temptimg him and he eventually choosing to fight for the light. Very cool

[@toomasargel8503]

18:29 that because that no comment to drummers skills at all !

[@user-cj4bt7mb6c]

Living metal legend. !!!!!!!!!🤘🤘 Don't call me exaggerating. Greatest power metal band.!!!HELLOWEEN.🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

[@evilwildseed]

There The Godfather of Power Metal

[@BlackieNuff]

That King Diamond shirt with the haunted house backdrop just go so well together.

[@Sanguine_Addiction]

I recommend you check out Type O Negative. Start with Love You To Death, Creepy Green Light, Anesthesia, Christian Woman, Wolf Moon, Green Man.

[@juanaguirre4833]

More Helloween!

[@YerkoCornejo-fd4kv]

More helloween please 😊😊

[@rimisark]

Nobody react to live song from 1987 hells on wheels... Epic it was... Maybe you were the first to do that... Who knows...

[@juanprc10]

Since you like concept albums and high pitched vocals, I recommend the album Operation Mindcrime by the band Queensryche, I think you’ll like it. Also, for some awesome high vocals, check out Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody, Ascending to Infinity.

[@w-james9277]

You should check out a band called "Burning Witches" they're an all girl heavy metal band and they make very catchy riffs!

[@leophistopheles]

Fun fact (or something xd): Michael Kiske auditoned for Maiden (or someone related to the band wanted him as the new singer) after Bruce quited/left the band, but Steve didn't want him on thr band because he wasn't from England. And then we've got Blaze instead

[@term437]

Kiske never auditioned for Iron Maiden. It was a rumor that he would, but kiske denies that ever happened. It was really only between blaze bayley and Russ north (cloven hoof). Also kiske was the one who mentioned he wouldn’t join because he was German and maiden being English, the fans would never accept it.

[@maurocardoso5875]

2 concept GREAT albums are VEKTOR - terminal redux and also Marilyn manson - Antichrist Superstar. and im sure you will love boths

[@justinvermilyea7640]

Hi kaiya missed you 😍🤩🤘🤘🤘

[@BlackieNuff]

The Keeper albums are NOT concept albums in the strictest sense. While some songs are conceptually linked and/or make references to other songs on the album(s), they are not arranged in any real order that would suggest it is a "chapter by chapter" telling of a story arc. The opening and closing tracks of Part I do serve their purpose as album openers/closers, but are not anything special. Initiation is an instrumental that leads directly into the next track (I'm Alive), and Follow The Sign is just a slow, ambient guitar solo with whispered narration, and really acts as a prelude to the title track, which appears as the last track on Part II. Part II also opens with an instrumental similar (if only by name) to Initiation, called Invitation, which then leads into Eagle Fly Free (an amazing track, which has a nice little bass solo and drum solo worked into it). Part II runs longer than Part I, and while it may have some of the better songs on an individual measure (which include Save Us, March Of Time, You Always Walk Alone, We Got The Right, and the title track), Part I can probably boast that "all" of its songs are good, but the best tracks would have to be Twilight Of The Gods, I'm Alive, A Little Time,Future World, and of course, Halloween. That leaves only the shorter "intro/outro" tracks that "bookend" the album.

[@MrBTK1976]

If you like concept albums, you should give these bad boyz a listen: Sabbat - Dreamweaver Paradox - Heresey Sodom - M16

[@FortessofShred]

Fantastic band

[@thomasvilstrup9172]

Please do keeper of the seven keys

[@djclabbe88]

Should have listen to United Alive in Madrid. SO much better, both sound and performance 😎

[@basicguy5785]

This was from before power metal was called power metal. I think most people referred to this as speed metal.

[@nimck6642]

You should totally react to Type O Negative’s ‘Slow, Deep, and Hard’ album

[@SubwaySweden]

Helloween..... my gateway drug.... and look at me now, finding the beauty in pigsquealing... it's all Helloweens fault

[@fernandooliveira4037]

Hello beutifull lady..... Helloween are the creaters the inventers the fathers of the power metal.... When the singuer Michael Kiske enter in the band in 1987 he and them change the history of the havy metalfor ever.... No any band exist like this at that time..... Today the álbum "keeper of the seven keys part 1 and 2 e considered the best album the best masterpice of the until today.... And today power metal is the style of havy most played whith more bands in the world....😅

[@carlospozaplaton3089]

BEST IN LIVE please

[@toomasargel8503]

Imakaiya , how many bass drums You have ?

[@ericarmstrong6769]

Can you do Fates Warning. Pioneer of prog metal. Just say its from Eric

[@serpentmanthys6439]

"First reaction" from a person who wears a Kind Diamond shirt 😂😂😂😂

[@justinvermilyea7640]

Have a lot to talk to you about have you heard mercyful fate huge king diamond and mercyful fate fan here

[@mrmetal0251]

If you like concept albums then you need to check out Queensryche Operation Mind Crime a must listen 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@davegnarlsson4344]

17yo Micheal Kiske.

[@metalmanny666]

If you like concept albums you should check out BTBAM

[@viraldls2.0]

Please react helloween final fortune

[@joelabel7843]

Helloween rules!!!! Im subbing. Also iv never met a women who likes this band so im falling in love with you too haha jk jk

[@gerardvandooren2075]

try Rob Halford Judas Priest victem of changes live