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Helloween (EP)

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Released
  
March 1985

Artist
  
Helloween

Producer
  
Helloween

Genres
  
Power metal, Speed metal

Length
  
26:22

Release date
  
March 1985

Label
  
Noise International

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Recorded
  
Musiclab Studio, Berlin, Germany, January–February 1985

Helloween is the debut EP by German heavy metal band Helloween. It was released in March 1985 on Noise Records.

Contents

Background

Although it is a speed metal rather than a power metal album, the record is significant as the first effort by the group that would redefine the power metal genre. Helloween was followed up later that same year by the band's first full-length album, Walls of Jericho.

Personnel

  • Kai Hansen – vocals, guitar
  • Michael Weikath – guitar
  • Markus Grosskopf – bass
  • Ingo Schwichtenberg – drums
  • Production

  • Recorded January – February 1985 at Musiclab Studio, Berlin, Germany
  • Produced by Helloween
  • Engineered and mixed by Harris Johns (who also contributes the devil laugh on "Victim of Fate")
  • Cover design by Uwe Karczewski, Hamburg, Germany
  • Songs

    1Starlight5:18
    2Murderer4:27
    3Guardias4:01

    References

    Helloween (EP) Wikipedia