Power Metal, Pop Metal, and Pumpkins United - Interview with Andi Deris of Helloween

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We met with Andi Deris of ‪@helloween‬ to discuss their upcoming album "Helloween", making the band a 3-singer outfit, dealing with the pandemic, politics, Assange, and more!
"Helloween" will be out on June 18 via ‪@NuclearBlastRecords‬
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Photo of Andi: Martin Häusler
Photo of the Band on Stage: Fabio Augusto

[@conbotstudios]

Though it's rarely mentioned, I think Andi deserves a ton of credit for this reunion. It takes incredible self-confidence to share the spotlight with another singer that many fans have always considered as Helloween's "voice." Great interview.

[@theixxfactor]

Amazing interview. Not only for Andi, but the questions were outstanding. Intelligent questions from a real fan!

[@adolfoalbornoz3730]

I agree

[@benasaro1043]

Totally agree!

[@nrdlys]

The interviewer dude is amazing, what a job! So cool when it's not only basic questions but he also can actually ask serious or tough questions and the musicians feels him as a reliable talk partner to whom to tell more than usual. Again, amazing job and so glad to see Andi ☺️

[@buzzy-ears]

That Ingo part in the Pumpkins United tour was so unexpectedly emotional, I would call it the biggest highlight in an event full of them. Also, don't you love it when you support people for decades and they never let you down? These guys do it right.

[@Priest1908]

A message to Andi Deris. Their investment in the recoding of the album will be fruitful, because all the metal heads are gonna buy it. 🤘🏻🎃🤘🏻

[@beastwishes]

Andi rules and thanks for this! It would be really great to hear more from Andi about his music and his songs from the band... I think Andi really does capture the "black and the white" of Helloween and metal so well and he really doesn't get enough praise for his ability to do this in his writing and as a frontman but this was really interesting. Thanks a lot.

[@wtglb]

To me, Andi embodies Helloween, you can tell he lives and breathes that band and has done so right from the start.

[@MetalBlast]

Thank you so much for those kind words. I'm happy you liked it!

[@AntonioGazzaneo91]

Andi totally deserved his place in Helloween and it showed right after, but i would say it shows even when you hear how much of an humble guy he is

[@ak-id1yh]

What a pleasant and lovable guy! Looking forward to the album and the tour next year!!

[@Priest1908]

Andi is one of the most selfawared artists that I know. He cares about people. Very modest and noble man. And he is my favorite singer. I would also to find Andi's red metal concert jacket.

[@celioazevedoofficial]

I would like to see all Andi Deris's solo albums on streaming sites like Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, etc.

[@emersonvieira2533]

E eles são todos foda!!Vc escuta os álbuns solo e pode constatar imediatamente que o Andi é a alma do Helloween desde o Master...

[@markobighead3173]

Why? Just buy the albums.

[@celioazevedoofficial]

@@markobighead3173 I already own all of them.

[@celioazevedoofficial]

Such a great interview!

[@johnkatsoudas3544]

This is the best interview with Andi Deris that I have ever listened to. I enjoyed it big time!!

[@duffalias]

Awesome! I would like to hear more interviews with Andy about his time in Pink Cream 69. Love that era

[@JPR17]

Andy Deris is such a great, humble and talented human being... I respect him even more after listening to him and who he is a person and musician .. Makes me love the band even more.. I love the New album with Kiske, Deris and Kai.. Their voices are a great match and they are all different and so talented musicians.. My respect for them all and the whole band.. I've been following this band from the beginning and this is a huge moment for all Helloween fans. I am living/loving the New album. Kiske and kai's comeback, Weikath! the songs are great. I totally feel identified with them and they have never dissapointed us.. Never! .

[@kipel1563]

Wow! Great interview!! Really!! Andi is just class act person!! Love to see him in interviews. Very interesting the topic about Roland, I never knew that and it’s a shame. Wonder what really happened with Uli… Can’t wait for the new album of Helloween!! 🤘🏼

[@EnovagMusic]

I had tears on my face!! How beautiful, and, inspiring, to hear people being nice!! Despite the big talent!!

[@MetalBlast]

I am indeed very nice

[@vidromero]

I didnt know this channel. Subbed immediately. This interview is so cool. Excelent questions asked to Andy. Thank you!

[@joshuaschmidinger3993]

Love and deris and helloween, been listening to the new album all day 😎🤘❤🔥👏 thanks for this bro. Someone said it in the comments and I agree, you asked great question and also came at it as a fan(with that love)great job.

[@susisimilikiti8500]

i always love andi since he was in Pink Cream 69.

[@MetalPersonJ]

"The Dixie Chicks were right" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear Andi say.

[@mikelsanmartin8899]

Without reading the comments I was already gonna write how great the interviewer is. Everyone's saying it in the commnets! Amazing job mate

[@MetalBlast]

Thank you so much, that means a lot. ❤️

[@naziziyayu5461]

A great interview ❤️👍🙏

[@boozefueledreviews6928]

Great interview!!! Very tasteful questions... not trying to bring up any scandal but letting Andi answer how he wants. Too many interviews want to dwell on bullshit topics... this was very well done! Excellent job!

[@peacockfilletsteak]

Honestly one of the best Andi interviews I've seen! Really interesting subjects without treading all the familiar topics.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

great job , thanks for the awesome interview. I wonder if i would have answered Where the Rain Grows as well, almost

[@MichaelHolmgaard]

Would love to hear you interview Michael Weikath too

Obrigado pela entrevista :)

[@darthchopper9016]

Great interview of a massive metal legend! I’m sure there will be a helloween tour next year, otherwise the fans should start a helloween gofundme, I’d donate.

[@karincristinecunhagoncalve1237]

Andi THE GREAT. I love you

[@JoolsGuitar]

I've been trying to understand the Roland Grapow situation since it happened and now at last it is revealed. On the other hand, this doesn't explain what happened with Uli Kusch

[@sailorpsycho]

I have a Rock Hard magazine from those years with interviews from roland and weiki. Roland's was "The hell with them, we're through!" and Weiki's was "something happened, the band splited in two factions and I didn't want another chameleon situation so we parted ways"

[@markobighead3173]

Given the apparent closeness of Roland and Uli, maybe Uli defended what Roland did and since they'd already had Masterplan going, they were sent off together and they pursued Masterplan. But I have noticed that Uli is seldom mentioned at all in interviews regarding past members, and they've even played songs he's written since then too.

[@JoolsGuitar]

@@markobighead3173 that's right, but that "financial betraying" sounds very serious and including Uli just because they were close is a little extreme. Let's see if someone ask them about Uli because he's often ignored even when he was a big part of the band

[@sailorpsycho]

@@JoolsGuitar Just a tinfoil-hat theory: I noticed that most bands Uli has been part of has bad blood towards him: Gamma Ray fired him and barely mentioned him in the early album re-releases; Helloween acts as if he didn't exist even though they played a couple of his songs live for almost 2 decades without him in the band, and Masterplan kicked him out after JUST 2 albums over "musical and personal differences"... Maybe He was the one behind all this drama and the helloween camp is salty towards Roland for enabling it... Just a tinfoil-hat theory...

[@JoolsGuitar]

@@sailorpsycho that's my theory as well. I recently watched a Timmo Tolkie interview where he was asked about Uli and he opened his eyes and said "no comments". I also read some interview where Roland said that he was "too negative". There's definitely something going on and that's a shame because the guy is an incredible musician.

[@metallihorsemen]

Amazing interview - loved all the questions! I hope you can interview Michael Weikath in this same style soon. Greetings from NYC 🤘🏼btw: any favorite song off the new album sampler you got?

[@MetalBlast]

Probably Fear of the Fallen.

[@walterosedin]

ahce unos dias vi una entrevista a Michael Kiske y descubri lo interesante de las cosas que contaba. Hoy veo esta hermosa charla con Andy Deris y me doy cuenta que realmente la banda esta pasando un enorme y genial momento de madurez en sus integrantes. Me encanto conocer lo que conto Andy. Sin dudas me siento privilegiado de ser contemporaneo a esta gran banda. Gracias por darnos estos momentos tan gratos. Por muchas mas entrevistas de este estilo. Un gran saludo

[@eddiemaiden2012]

Fantastic 👏 🤘

[@LuisPellicano]

It's good to know, after all these years, that Roland was a dick. Some people splitted between Helloween and Masterplan, but I stuck with the "old guys". Nice!

[@erikandrasik8667]

Very nice interview.. Andi is very smart, funny, talented, awesome frontman, perfect gentleman and great guy.. Met him couple of times and he was always very nice, in 2011 he even jumped from stage after the show and shook hand just with me because we shared stares and were showing things to each other for the whole show.. It was just an amazing experience... And he is very great and very smart guy to talk about everything, about life and I really admire his wisdom and how he looks at the problems in the world in general.. Thanks so much for great interview with him, hopefully this time in 2022 we all gonna see them live !!

[@Edgelordess]

So thats what King for 1000 years is about! I've been trying to find the meaning of this song for years.

[@MetalBlast]

Happy to help 😅

[@Blore07]

Fantastic interview!

[@MetalPersonJ]

"If we can't tour in '22, it costs our neck." This sentence has been burned into my head ever since I heard it. As we get closer to the end of the year I am terrified Helloween is going to come to an end because they aren't being added to any festivals or tourdates being announced. Especially since the record is so goddamn good. I will never forgive Nuclear Blast if Helloween dies.

[@MetalBlast]

Why would you be angry at Nuclear Blast if the band dies? I'm not trying to defend the label, I'm just curious as to why you think they'd be responsible for it.

[@MetalPersonJ]

@@MetalBlast I understand that there's booking agents involved, but wouldn't Nuclear Blast have some say at this point on whether or not Helloween tours?

[@MetalBlast]

No, that wouldn't be a label decision.

[@philiphowell6336]

I love that he's just chill smoking his cigar :) haha

[@Zeheroth69]

Awesome interview, very good job.. Talking to eachother as if you lot know eachother for years haha. Great to see. Love love love Helloween, the new album and Andi

[@MetalBlast]

Thank you so much for that!

[@Zeheroth69]

@@MetalBlast not at all! Keep it up \m/

[@soniaderis622]

❤❤

[@monrrous]

peazo puro! PD Gran entrevista

[@fabiofriske7672]

Andi is very nice guy!!!

[@MetalGildarts]

Fantastic interview. I’m glad we finally know why Roland Grapow was let go. Also enjoyed Andi’s candidness concerning current events. My love and respect for him went up. Good job bro.

[@MetalBlast]

Thank you so much!

[@markobighead3173]

Definitely drastically different than the Internet story of The Dark Ride being too heavy so him and Uli were out. That story never made much sense to me either.

[@irlanfernando3147]

@@markobighead3173 Only people who don't think straight believe this version, because after Dark Ride the Helloween continued to make very heavy albums, such as Keep of the Legacy and 7 sinners

[@markobighead3173]

@@irlanfernando3147 I agree, even Rabbit Don't Come Easy had some heavier elements to it akin to The Dark Ride. Another thing is that Roland and Uli only wrote the two darkest tracks, but the other two tracks they both wrote were typical Helloween and Andi still wrote the majority of the album. It was the most popular narrative, but I never really believed it because it just didn't make sense at all.

[@bimmyfrizzo3988]

I guess over the years, helloween took a lot of blame for sacking roland, Because maybe they didn't want to tarnish his reputation. Maybe the story of roland was a lot worse than what andi described in the interview.

[@juliereminiec4937]

metal Blast : that happened in the states back in the 60s John Lennon said that " the ebatles were bigger than Jesus !" but he said that in reference to the British teens...

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

keeper 1 was pop metal, for the first time i hear this, and from the right mounth; it is the definition of Helloween´s essence

[@juliereminiec4937]

Keeper was one of the first power metal lps Hall of the mountain King (Savatage).& Transendence ( Crimson Glory) are the other two

[@bimmyfrizzo3988]

Roland grapow was an amazing guitarist and song writer for helloween. I really wish they didn't have to fire him. But I completely understand why they did it. Even though michael weikath hated the dark ride and apologized for it, I don't think that's why roland and uli were let go. I do think through the hard times helloween went through, roland and uli were focused too much on their project band masterplan and what andi deris described roland betraying the band financially, He might have been stealing money from helloween to fund his project band. I don't know for sure if this is true or not, But it's just a strong theory that I have. If it is true I'd say shame on you roland and uli!

[@putuaditiyapratama7010]

Andi Derris : Where the rain grows Michael Kiske: Eagle fly free Kai Hansen: Ride the sky It is exactly the same like I think before Andi answered the last question 😁 Perfect song for perfect era... HELL🎃WEEN FOREVER

[@MetalBlast]

Great!

[@verdadedita1878]

Que chato o que Grawpow fez... apesar de todo ocorrido, foi um grande músico e deu uma certa velocidade em músicas do HW, juntamento com o rápido e técnico ULI

[@adriellyoliveiradealbuquer8179]

👏👏❤️🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@charruaceleste1354]

I noticed there's cut in the interview..i was digging the part were you guys were talking about the covid and all that. Anyway you can upload that content?

[@MetalBlast]

All the edits were just for convenience (if either of us forgot a word, etc.), or to cover technical problems. What we discussed is on the video, you're not missing anything

[@diegoborges3716]

His voice when he talks is totally different than when he sings.

[@MetalPersonJ]

Very different.

[@sumanmurali85]

Rory ❤️

[@adinadamian5634]

At 29:47 the interviewer mentions Metallica but I didn't catch what he was referring to, can someone tell me more about it?

[@MetalBlast]

Hi! Sorry for the delay. Metallica had to bring in a mediator for them to work together after Jason Newsted left the band. The whole bizarre spectacle is documented in the film "some kind of monster". It's available on KZbin, so you can see it for yourself! 😀

[@adinadamian5634]

@@MetalBlast Thanks for the info, will check it out

[@rjm_17]

Most interviews I watch with this band are awful. The interviewers are almost always brain dead idiots. You aren’t. By far the best interview I have ever seen with this band. You gotta get some other members on here now.

[@MetalBlast]

You're very kind, thank you so much for that. It's definitely the plan to do more with Helloween, but their press "tour" was super busy. Lots of interest from many outlets!

[@johngaribaldus7741]

a god for me .

[@seansiewsarran]

na... 2021 is worse here for us in the caribbean .. 2020 was better - guess its the reverse here for us hahah... great interview by the way.. next time you interview any of the members, tell them they have fans in the caribbean lol.. be safe man!

[@MetalBlast]

I will!

[@nikohansen7886]

Buenísima entrevista.

[@carmenjimenezfernandez7665]

Hola Niko,mi inglés no es muy bueno, podrías decirme que ha dicho?perdona si te molesto

[@MetalBlast]

Qué te gustaría saber? Ha hablado de como fue su 2020, la "traición" de Grapow, conseguir recuperar la batería de Ingo, y algunas otras cosas.

[@carmenjimenezfernandez7665]

@@MetalBlast como lleva la pandemia?

[@MetalBlast]

@@carmenjimenezfernandez7665 Como está en Tenerife, dice que ahí apenas se notó. Sólo tuvieron "Lockdown" propiamente tal en una sola ocasión. Al parecer la isla estuvo sin grandes problemas

[@carmenjimenezfernandez7665]

@@MetalBlast gracias

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

19:43 your favorite band is correct

[@xgriff_ins_klo9877]

Es ist nicht wirklich respektvoll in einem Interview im Zigarrenrauch zu verschwinden! Na ja, man lernt nie aus! Aber trotzdem, Andi, geiler Sänger, weiter so und hoffentlich bald wieder LIVE!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

i cant stopping laughing he remembers me like a hotel owner or something, very goood lol If you tell me this guy sang Revelations or Push

[@venturahxyz8088]

Never I would have sold this drumkit. I would have give it for the recordings but then get it back again

[@Keeper7Keys77]

Andi is not saying the true in this interview. I know the owner of the drumkit and he did NOT sold the drum to Helloween. Meyk just gave him the Ingo´s drumkit to record the album and then He will get it back

[@baldur3576]

🎃🎃🎃Future World 🎃🎃🎃

[@rockithoney]

I think Ingo's set was in Roland's studio for a couple of years. He actually did some masterplan recording on it as far as I know. It's the very first time I hear a helloween member speaking openly about the grapow split. In the last I only heard "roland betrayed us" from weiki and andi but never content behind this heavy word.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

it looks like Andi Deris cried before the interview

[@nazarsokur5950]

Eagle fly free is not so far from pop as Andi said)

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

40:00 paradoxically just who really deserves this fame says this that it was luck; thoso who do not deserve think they are really the best

[@ganglabesh]

helloween is better than iron maiden

[@MetalBlast]

🤔

[@Tempashot]

No they are not. And that’s not being disrespectful to Helloween, as Helloween are an amazing band. But better than Iron Maiden??? Not quite.

[@ganglabesh]

@@Tempashot yes they are. iron maiden stuck to one sound, helloween experiments with some other styles like on their album chameleon.

[@MrZenkman]

Both are fantastic bands. Just because one band experiments more than the other, does not make them a “better band”.

[@ganglabesh]

@@MrZenkman didn't say that lady. I prefer bands more clever than being redundant

[@anulire]

Hmm, what is pop metal?

[@MetalBlast]

What Andi called some of Helloween's songs

[@dimitarmitev7176]

😂

[@anulire]

@@MetalBlast Got drunk with him (and the band) and I don't believe he would say this unless on some HEEEÀAAVY pop drugs lol

[@CyrilViXP]

Great interview! Hope one day German bands will be ready to talk not only about american but also about Russian war crimes and terror that this country produces to neighbor countries.

[@Jingleschmiede]

You not only have to be skeptical about the media etc., you have to be skeptical about yourself. I remember an interview with Kiske, where he told that there are people who had near death experiences and that is somehow prove of a god. Now, because he's christian he isn't skeptical about those statements anymore. But you have to. Is god really the only explanation why people have those experiences ? Does the things people experience really exist outside of their minds ? ....... And, what annoys me every time is the term "mainstream media". What is mainstream media ? The media that doesn't go along with your opinion ? Is it impossible that the 'mainstream media' is right ? What foundation does the "non mainstream media" have ? Why do you want to believe them more ? .... I really wish, that people doesn't talk that much about things, that are far to complicated to discuss on an amateurish roundtable. That's why we have flatearthers. Flatearthers are actually people, that don't know what they are talking about, but do it anyway.... Just shut up.

[@azzaki8971]

And now it's clear roland is rotten pumpkin.. Shame on that

[@Yu-Fei-Hung]

A smoking singer? That's odd

[@MetalBlast]

I thought the same

[@Yu-Fei-Hung]

@@MetalBlast he almost got fired from Helloween because his throat problems.

[@markobighead3173]

@@Yu-Fei-Hung No, he didn't.

[@irlanfernando3147]

@@Yu-Fei-Hung It's a lie

[@Yu-Fei-Hung]

@@irlanfernando3147 it is not recent, it happened many years ago.

[@siriusforever]

Andi try to balance lie and truth the wrong way.

[@MorgothAce6099]

explain