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Walls of Jericho (album)

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Released
  
October 1985

Artist
  
Helloween

Producer
  
Harris Johns

Length
  
40:54

Release date
  
October 1985

Label
  
Noise Records

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Recorded
  
September – October 1985 at Musiclab Studio, Berlin, Germany

Walls of Jericho (1985)
  
Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I (1987)

Genres
  
Power metal, Speed metal, Thrash metal

Similar
  
Keeper of the Seven Keys - Part I, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II, Pink Bubbles Go Ape, Master of the Rings, The Time of the Oath

Walls of Jericho is the debut full-length studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1985 on LP by Noise Records. It is the only album featuring Kai Hansen as lead vocalist, although he would continue to act as guitarist on subsequent albums.

Contents

In 1988, Walls of Jericho was released on CD. Due to the enhanced capacity of the CD, the Helloween EP/mini-LP and the song "Judas" from the Judas EP were added to the Walls of Jericho track listing; they are now released as a compilation. In the late 1980s, due to a manufacturing error, side one of several cassette copies of Walls of Jericho accidentally contained the music of Celtic Frost's To Mega Therion, confusing many first-time Helloween listeners.

2006 Remastered & Expanded Edition

Disc one is the same as above.

  • Tracks 1 & 2 also appear on the album Treasure Chest.
  • Tracks 3 & 4 also appear on the Judas EP.
  • Tracks 5 & 6 also appear on the Death Metal compilation.
  • Track 7 also appears on the Helloween EP.

    • Band members

  • Kai Hansen – Vocals, guitar
  • Michael Weikath – Guitar, cover concept
  • Markus Grosskopf – Bass
  • Ingo Schwichtenberg – Drums

    • Additional musicians

  • James Hardaway – E-mu Emulator II

    • Production

  • Produced, engineered and mixed by Harris Johns
  • Edda and Uwe Karczewski – Cover design
  • Peter Vahlefeld – Layout, typography

    • Trivia

  • The titular entity in the song "Gorgar" is the first talking pinball machine ever produced.
  • The main theme of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is used in the song "Gorgar."
  • The intro to "Starlight" is taken from a commercial in the movie Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
  • The song "Heavy Metal (Is the Law)" is not an official live recording. Rather, crowd noise was added.
  • The live versions of "Ride the Sky" and "Guardians" are not live recordings; they are the same songs as found on Walls of Jericho but with crowd noise mixed in. The actual live versions of the two songs appeared only on the original 12" vinyl edition of the "Judas" single.
  • Professional wrestler Chris Jericho took his ring name and the name of his submission maneuver from the title of this album.

    • Songs

    1Walls of Jericho / Ride the Sky6:45
    2Reptile3:46
    3Guardias4:01

    References

    Walls of Jericho (album) Wikipedia
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