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Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary

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Recorded
  
2009

Unarmed - Best of 25th Anniversary (2009)
  
7 Sinners (2010)

Release date
  
24 November 2009

Length
  
59:04

Artist
  
Helloween

Producer
  
Charlie Bauerfeind

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Released
  
23 December 2009 (Japan, Southeast Asia) 29 January 2010

Label
  
Victor Talking Machine Company

Genres
  
Acoustic music, Symphonic metal, Jazz, Symphonic rock

Similar
  
Helloween albums, Symphonic metal albums

Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary is the 25th Anniversary celebration album by the German power metal band Helloween. It is a compilation of re-recorded versions of Helloween songs in an acoustic/symphonic style. It includes a 70-piece Prague Symphony Orchestra performing "The Keeper's Trilogy", a 17-minute medley consisting of the songs "Halloween", "Keeper of the Seven Keys" and "The King for a 1000 Years". Many guest musicians are featured on the tracks.

Contents

Commenting on the album on 2011, the bass guitarist Markus Grosskopf said,

The vocalist Andi Deris, however, panned the album in a 2015 interview, saying he never liked the idea of doing it and that the record company "raped" the band to do it. He commented,

Credits

  • Andi Deris – vocals
  • Michael Weikath – guitar (tracks 1-5, 7-11)
  • Sascha Gerstner – guitar
  • Markus Grosskopf – bass guitar (tracks 1-5, 7-11)
  • Dani Löble – drums (tracks 1-5, 7-11)
  • Prague Symphony Orchestra (tracks 5, 11)
  • Gero Drnek (Fury in the Slaughterhouse) - accordion
  • Andreas Becker (Peter Maffay) - guitar (tracks 2, 4, 7, 9)
  • Albie Donnelly (Supercharge) - saxophone (track 1)
  • Matthias Ulmer - piano (tracks 1, 3, 5, 10, 11)
  • Nippy Noya - percussion (tracks 1-4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
  • Harriet Ohlsson (Hellsongs) - duet vocals, arrangement (track 6)
  • Kalle Karlsson (Hellsongs) - guitar, arrangement (track 6)
  • Johan Bringhed (Hellsongs) - piano, arrangement (track 6)
  • Richard Naxton, Johnny Clucas, Dan Hoadley, Chris Tickner, Richard Collier, Gerry O'Beime, Gunther Laudahn, Lawrence White, Jan-Eric Kohrs, Rob Fardell (Gregorian) - choir
  • Charlie Bauerfeind - producer (tracks 1-5, 7-11)
  • Petter Ericsson - producer (track 6)
  • Songs

    1Dr Stein4:00
    2Future World4:13
    3If I Could Fly3:29

    References

    Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary Wikipedia