GAMBLING WITH THE DEVIL

The album title, Gambling With The Devil, is definitely programmatic. “At the end of the

day, life is like a gamble with the devil,” vocalist Andi Deris reckons. The man knows what

he‟s talking about: Like few other metal acts, Helloween have survived the many crazes

and trends the music business has produced, using each new experience to approach their

next challenge with new strength. Backed by the impetus of their successful Keeper Of The

Seven Keys – The Legacy world tour, which saw the band perform 93 shows in 34

countries all over the world (impressively documented on the double DVD, Live On 3

Continents), the five musicians, Andi Deris, Michael Weikath (guitars), Sascha Gerstner

(guitars), Markus Großkopf (bass) and Dani Löble (drums), set about recording the twelfth

Helloween studio album, Gambling With The Devil. The release of one of the most

dynamic and mature offerings in the band‟s history has been scheduled for October 26.

“The fans‟ positive reactions and the great responses to Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The

Legacy really inspired us. We were rearing to go,” Andi Deris remembers. “It‟s been years

since I had so much fun composing.”

Gambling With The Devil is filled with haunting melodies, driving rhythms, virtuoso guitar

solos and other typical Helloween trademarks, perfectly directed by producer Charlie

Bauerfeind at the Mi Sueno studios in Tenerife. At the same time, the band has continued to

develop, frequently surprising with progressive orchestrations and arrangements that have

their finger unmistakably on the pulse of the times. “It‟s all a question of self-confidence,”

confesses Deris, whose contemporary and multi-faceted songwriting is a perfect match for

the compositions of his colleagues, Weikath, Großkopf and Gerstner, without leaving the

established framework of melodic metal.

16 new tracks were completed, 11 of which – plus the intro – have made it onto the regular

version of Gambling With The Devil. Two more will be included in the album‟s more

lavish limited edition, among them the first single release, „As Long As I Fall‟, a catchy

tune par excellence. At the centre of the album is a trilogy, aptly referred to by Deris as the

“trinity”, a critical appraisal of a lack of ideologies and proliferation of blind obedience,

consisting of the progressive „The Bells Of The 7 Hells‟, the slightly more sedate „Fallen

To Pieces‟ and the rhythmically demanding „I.M.E.‟. Then there are typical Helloween

numbers such as „Paint A New World‟, „The Saints‟ and „Can Do It‟, which fascinate with

their speed and catchiness. Another highlight is „Heaven Tells No Lies‟, which has

Helloween venture into Queen spheres. The album starts with the intro, „Crack The Riddle‟,

featuring Biff Byford (Saxon) as a guest speaker and a reference to the scratch card puzzle

in the booklet. A concert ticket for the band‟s impending tour of South America, including

flight and accommodation, awaits the lucky winner.

Helloween‟s Europan Hellish Rock tour, accompanied by Gamma Ray, is scheduled to start

in mid-November 2007 and already has the experts click their tongues. Apart from a few

festival appearances, this will be the first joint tour by Helloween and Gamma Ray. So

here‟s hoping that Gamma Ray mastermind Kai Hansen, a former Helloween member

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himself, will join his ex-colleagues in a jam session featuring Helloween classics. Together

with the album release at the end of October, the final months of 2007 will be marked by

non-stop highlights from the Helloween camp.

Helloween‟s history dates all the way back to 1978 when Kai Hansen and Piet Sielck

formed a band called “Gentry“. Around 1981 Kai and Piet changed the name of the band to

“Second Hell” and recruited drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg and bassist Markus Großkopf

who at the time had been playing in a band called “Traumschiff. In 1982 Piet Sielck leaves

Second Hell to become a record producer and sound engineer and the band changes their

name to “Iron Fist”. Michael Weikath of the band Powerfool tries to lure Kai Hansen to

join his band, but in the end decides to join Kai‟s band Iron Fist.

1984 comes around and an upstart independent label called Noise records invites the band

to record two tracks on their new “Death Metal” compilation alongside bands such as

Running Wild, Dark Avenger and Hellhammer. The band, still not satisfied with the name

“Iron Fist” changes their name to Helloween. Ingo Schwichtenberg comes up with the idea

to not only replace the “o” in Helloween with a pumpkin, but to also come up with

pumpkin artwork which would later become one of Helloween‟s biggest trademarks. The

band contributed to the Death Metal compilation with two songs, a slower and sloppier

version of “Metal Invaders” ( a song that would later appear on their debut full length

Walls of Jericho) and the track Oernst Of Life.

In 1985 Helloween goes into the studio with producer Harris Johns and releases their debut,

a self titled 5 track EP also known to many fans as “The Mini LP”. In October of 1985 the

band then releases their first full length album, “Walls Of Jericho”, also produced by Harris

Johns. The band also recorded the “Judas EP” which contained a new non album track

entitled “Judas” and a compilation of live cuts. Helloween captured the media‟s attention

and received great reviews all over the world. In November of 1986 while the band toured,

Kai Hansen found it difficult to sing and play guitar at the same time so when the tour was

over the band began searching for a new singer. The band recruits 18 year old ex-Ill

Prophecy singer Michael Kiske and begins work on a new album. The band decided that

they wanted to release a double album, however Noise records said that they did not want

Helloween to release a double album and therefore Helloween began work on the first part

of a two part concept album.

3

1987‟s Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1, produced by Tommy Hansen and Tommy

Newton, puts the band on the map. Helloween received rave reviews everywhere around

the world including America where they embark on their first US tour with Grim Reaper

and Armored Saint. The following year the band released the second part of their concept

album called “Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II” which is even more successful than part

1. The band embarks on the Pumpkins Fly Free tour which takes them all over Europe and

they even become one of the headliners at the Donnington Monsters of Rock festival in

England along with bands such as Kiss, and Iron Maiden. In late 1988 Kai Hansen decides

to leave the band because of the long touring schedule. In 1989 Helloween recruits former

Rampage guitar player Roland Grapow and the band then embarks on their second

Headbanger‟s Ball tour in America with Anthrax and Exodus. Helloween also releases

two best of albums, “The Best The Rest The Rare” and “Pumpkin Tracks“. They also

release a live album from their Pumpkins Fly Free Tour of Europe. In Japan the album is

called “Keepers Live”, in the USA it‟s called “I Want Out Live” and around the rest of the

world the live album is entitled “Live In The UK”. Helloween, unhappy with their current

contract with Noise records decides to break their contract and sign to EMI records. Noise

filed a lawsuit against the band for breach of contract and the band fights a major legal

battle with Noise records which would last a long time. In the end, Helloween loses the

legal battle and must not only pay Noise records a huge sum of money, but they cannot

release any material outside of Europe or Japan. This left many people around the world

wondering….”What happened to Helloween?”

Finally in 1991 the band releases the “Kids of The Century” single which contains a

message from the band telling fans where they have been for the last 3 years. They then

release their next album “Pink Bubbles Go Ape” which was not received well by the press

and fans alike. Although the album does contain some great songs, especially the ones

written by Roland Grapow, tensions inside the band begin to build up between members

over which direction musically the band should take.

4

1993 sees the release their next album “Chameleon” which becomes the band‟s most

unsuccessful album to date. The band begins to endure even more trouble on the

Chameleon tour as tensions build up even more while drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg

begins to have problems with his psychological condition and cannot finish the tour.

Richie Abdel Nabi replaces Ingo on a temporary basis and finishes the tour. After the tour

EMI releases the band from it‟s contract they fire singer Michael Kiske, citing musical

and personal differences.

In late 1993 Andi Deris, former Pink Cream 69 singer, joins the band along with former

Holy Moses and Gamma Ray Drummer Uli Kusch, a new lineup for Helloween is born.

The band signs to Castle records in 1994. Their next album “Master of the Rings” was

released and became what many people called a great comeback album! The band went on

a successful tour and new singer Andi Deris surprised many fans with his versatile and

powerful voice. The album was released a year later in North America with a second disc

containing all 7 b-sides from the album. Tragedy also struck the band as former drummer

Ingo Schwichtenberg committed suicide in 1995.

5

Helloween went back into the studio and released “The Time Of The Oath” in 1996, which

was hailed by the press as their best album since the Keeper era. The album contained

songs loosely based on the writings of Nostradamus. Helloween was back on top as The

Time of The Oath earned them many gold and platinum albums throughout the world.

Later that year they released the double live album “High Live” and was elected best band

of 1996 by the Japanese magazine Buurn.

While the band began to write for the next album, Andi Deris released his first solo album

“Come In From The Rain” and Roland Grapow released his first solo album “The Four

Seasons of Life”. 1998 brought along the album Better Than Raw which was yet again

released to rave reviews throughout the press. The band combined modern elements with

their traditional Helloween sound which made for quite a unique album and went down

well with fans. Roland Grapow also releases his second solo album. 1999 saw the band

take a break and release a covers album entitled “Metal Jukebox”. This album contained a

variety of rock, pop and metal classics which influenced the band. The band then set off to

write their next album.

The band signed a two album deal with Nuclear Blast in the year 2000. Their next album

entitled “The Dark Ride” , produced by Roy Z and Charlie Bauerfeind was released shortly

after. The album became one of Helloween‟s worst selling albums ever as the band took a

darker and more modern sounding approach. Reviews of “The Dark Ride” in the press

were mixed along with many fan reactions. Some liking the new direction and most

wanting the Helloween of old. Tensions between members of the band began which led to

the firing of guitarist Roland Grapow and drummer Uli Kusch. The band also released

"Treasure Chest", a 2 disc best of release that also had some older Helloween songs

remixed. The best of also came as a limited edition with a bonus disc called "Buried

Treasure" which contained some rare b-sides.

The band then recruits former Metalium drummer Mark Cross on drums and former

Freedom Call guitarist Sasha Gerstner. In 2003 the band began to record for their next

album, however their new drummer Mark Cross was diagnosed with mononucleosis and

could only complete two songs for the recordings and thus was forced to leave the band.

Former King Diamond and current Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee is called in to

complete the band‟s studio recordings on the drums.

6

Rabbit Don‟t Come Easy was released and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann is called in to

join the band for the tour. The album sold well and the band completed a very successful

tour around the world. Stefan Schwarzmann decided to leave the band after the tour but

stayed throughout the preproduction for the next album until the band found a replacement.

Dani Löble, ex-drummer of RAWHEAD REXX turned out to be the perfect drummer for

Helloween and the band began to record the follow-up to Rabbit Don‟t Come Easy.

On October 31st 2005 the band releases a follow-up to their legendary Keeper albums

entitled “Keeper of The Seven Keys - The Legacy”. The album brought more critical

acclaim to the band and was received well throughout the world. The success of the album

and it‟s subsequent tour was so strong the band released a double live DVD and double live

CD. In 2007, to commemorate their last two years of success, Helloween released a

double Live CD entitled "Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006

- Live In Sao Paulo" and a double live DVD entitled "Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The

Legacy World Tour 2005/2006 - Live On 3 Continents".

7

The band has just released their newest album "Gambling With the Devil" to great reviews.

It's an album that takes them down a much heavier path and is described by singer Andi

Deris as a mixture of Walls Of Jericho and Master of The Rings". The band will be

embarking on a world tour that kicks off in Europe with Gamma Ray and Axxis.

8

Contenido Capitulo1 ............................................................................................................................................. 9

capitulo 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 13

capitulo3 ............................................................................................................................................ 17

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Capitulo1

We deeply apologize the weeks of silence - which were

weeks of insecurity for us - about the bands European label

situation and the release date of the long awaited

“UNARMED – Best-Of 25th Anniversary” album.

Thus we are proud to finally announce that we have teamed

up with SONY MUSIC in coop. with SPV, to release our

upcoming records!

We also want to use this opportunity to welcome the highly

motivated team of SONY MUSIC in the world of Helloween

and it´s fans!

Release dates of “UNARMED – Best-Of 25th Anniversary”:

December 16th, 2009 - Japan & Southeast Asia (JVC/Victor)

January 29th, 2010 - Europe (SONY/SPV)

The release dates for the American continent will be

announced soon

“UNARMED – Best-Of 25th Anniversary” is a big „thank-

you‟ to all our fans, old and new all over the world! Instead

of putting together a regular greatest hits compilation

featuring our most successful tracks to celebrate this

anniversary, we completely rearranged and rerecorded the

greatest songs and melodies of our career.

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Together with our tried and tested producer, Charlie

Bauerfeind, we invited many great musicians to guest on this

special record, with the doubtless highlight of having the 70-

piece Prague Symphonic 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" - goose bumbs guaranteed!

Here´s a list of all songs we recorded:

GAMBLING WITH THE DEVIL

The album title, Gambling With The Devil, is definitely

programmatic. “At the end of the day, life is like a gamble

with the devil,” vocalist Andi Deris reckons. The man knows

what he‟s talking about: Like few other metal acts,

Helloween have survived the many crazes and trends the

music business has produced, using each new experience to

approach their next challenge with new strength. Backed by

the impetus of their successful Keeper Of The Seven Keys –

The Legacy world tour, which saw the band perform 93

shows in 34 countries all over the world (impressively

documented on the double DVD, Live On 3 Continents), the

five musicians, Andi Deris, Michael Weikath (guitars),

Sascha Gerstner (guitars), Markus Großkopf (bass) and Dani

Löble (drums), set about recording the twelfth Helloween

studio album, Gambling With The Devil. The release of one

of the most dynamic and mature offerings in the band‟s

history has been scheduled for October 26. “The fans‟

positive reactions and the great responses to Keeper Of The

Seven Keys – The Legacy really inspired us. We were

11

rearing to go,” Andi Deris remembers. “It‟s been years since

I had so much fun composing.”

Gambling With The Devil is filled with haunting melodies,

driving rhythms, virtuoso guitar solos and other typical

Helloween trademarks, perfectly directed by producer

Charlie Bauerfeind at the Mi Sueno studios in Tenerife. At

the same time, the band has continued to develop, frequently

surprising with progressive orchestrations and arrangements

that have their finger unmistakably on the pulse of the times.

“It‟s all a question of self-confidence,” confesses Deris,

whose contemporary and multi-faceted songwriting is a

perfect match for the compositions of his colleagues,

Weikath, Großkopf and Gerstner, without leaving the

established framework of melodic metal.

16 new tracks were completed, 11 of which – plus the intro –

have made it onto the regular version of Gambling With The

Devil. Two more will be included in the album‟s more lavish

limited edition, among them the first single release, „As

Long As I Fall‟, a catchy tune par excellence. At the centre

of the album is a trilogy, aptly referred to by Deris as the

“trinity”, a critical appraisal of a lack of ideologies and

proliferation of blind obedience, consisting of the

progressive „The Bells Of The 7 Hells‟, the slightly more

sedate „Fallen To Pieces‟ and the rhythmically demanding

„I.M.E.‟. Then there are typical Helloween numbers such as

„Paint A New World‟, „The Saints‟ and „Can Do It‟, which

fascinate with their speed and catchiness. Another highlight

is „Heaven Tells No Lies‟, which has Helloween venture into

Queen spheres. The album starts with the intro, „Crack The

12

Riddle‟, featuring Biff Byford (Saxon) as a guest speaker

and a reference to the scratch card puzzle in the booklet. A

concert ticket for the band‟s impending tour of South

America, including flight and accommodation, awaits the

lucky winner.

Helloween‟s Europan Hellish Rock tour, accompanied by

Gamma Ray, is scheduled to start in mid-November 2007

and already has the experts click their tongues. Apart from a

few festival appearances, this will be the first joint tour by

Helloween and Gamma Ray. So here‟s hoping that Gamma

Ray mastermind Kai Hansen, a former Helloween member

himself, will join his ex-colleagues in a jam session featuring

Helloween classics. Together with the album release at the

end of October, the final months of 2007 will be marked by

non-stop highlights from the Helloween camp.

Helloween‟s history dates all the way back to 1978 when Kai

Hansen and Piet Sielck formed a band called “Gentry“.

Around 1981 Kai and Piet changed the name of the band to

“Second Hell” and recruited drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg

and bassist Markus Großkopf who at the time had been

playing in a band called “Traumschiff. In 1982 Piet Sielck

leaves Second Hell to become a record producer and sound

engineer and the band changes their name to “Iron Fist”.

Michael Weikath of the band Powerfool tries to lure Kai

Hansen to join his band, but in the end decides to join Kai‟s

band Iron Fist.

13

capitulo 2

1984 comes around and an upstart independent label called

Noise records invites the band to record two tracks on their

new “Death Metal” compilation alongside bands such as

Running Wild, Dark Avenger and Hellhammer. The band,

still not satisfied with the name “Iron Fist” changes their

name to Helloween. Ingo Schwichtenberg comes up with

the idea to not only replace the “o” in Helloween with a

pumpkin, but to also come up with pumpkin artwork which

would later become one of Helloween‟s biggest trademarks.

The band contributed to the Death Metal compilation with

two songs, a slower and sloppier version of “Metal

Invaders” ( a song that would later appear on their debut full

length Walls of Jericho) and the track Oernst Of Life.

In 1985 Helloween goes into the studio with producer Harris

Johns and releases their debut, a self titled 5 track EP also

known to many fans as “The Mini LP”. In October of 1985

the band then releases their first full length album, “Walls Of

Jericho”, also produced by Harris Johns. The band also

recorded the “Judas EP” which contained a new non album

track entitled “Judas” and a compilation of live cuts.

Helloween captured the media‟s attention and received great

reviews all over the world. In November of 1986 while the

band toured, Kai Hansen found it difficult to sing and play

guitar at the same time so when the tour was over the band

began searching for a new singer. The band recruits 18 year

old ex-Ill Prophecy singer Michael Kiske and begins work

on a new album. The band decided that they wanted to

14

release a double album, however Noise records said that they

did not want Helloween to release a double album and

therefore Helloween began work on the first part of a two

part concept album.

1987‟s Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1, produced by

Tommy Hansen and Tommy Newton, puts the band on the

map. Helloween received rave reviews everywhere around

the world including America where they embark on their

first US tour with Grim Reaper and Armored Saint. The

following year the band released the second part of their

concept album called “Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II”

which is even more successful than part 1. The band

embarks on the Pumpkins Fly Free tour which takes them all

over Europe and they even become one of the headliners at

the Donnington Monsters of Rock festival in England along

with bands such as Kiss, and Iron Maiden. In late 1988 Kai

Hansen decides to leave the band because of the long touring

schedule. In 1989 Helloween recruits former Rampage

guitar player Roland Grapow and the band then embarks on

their second Headbanger‟s Ball tour in America with

Anthrax and Exodus. Helloween also releases two best of

albums, “The Best The Rest The Rare” and “Pumpkin

Tracks“. They also release a live album from their

Pumpkins Fly Free Tour of Europe. In Japan the album is

called “Keepers Live”, in the USA it‟s called “I Want Out

Live” and around the rest of the world the live album is

entitled “Live In The UK”. Helloween, unhappy with their

15

current contract with Noise records decides to break their

contract and sign to EMI records. Noise filed a lawsuit

against the band for breach of contract and the band fights a

major legal battle with Noise records which would last a

long time. In the end, Helloween loses the legal battle and

must not only pay Noise records a huge sum of money, but

they cannot release any material outside of Europe or Japan.

This left many people around the world wondering….”What

happened to Helloween?”

Finally in 1991 the band releases the “Kids of The Century”

single which contains a message from the band telling fans

where they have been for the last 3 years. They then release

their next album “Pink Bubbles Go Ape” which was not

received well by the press and fans alike. Although the

album does contain some great songs, especially the ones

written by Roland Grapow, tensions inside the band begin to

build up between members over which direction musically

the band should take.

1993 sees the release their next album “Chameleon” which

becomes the band‟s most unsuccessful album to date. The

band begins to endure even more trouble on the Chameleon

tour as tensions build up even more while drummer Ingo

Schwichtenberg begins to have problems with his

psychological condition and cannot finish the tour. Richie

16

Abdel Nabi replaces Ingo on a temporary basis and finishes

the tour. After the tour EMI releases the band from it‟s

contract they fire singer Michael Kiske, citing musical and

personal differences.

In late 1993 Andi Deris, former Pink Cream 69 singer, joins

the band along with former Holy Moses and Gamma Ray

Drummer Uli Kusch, a new lineup for Helloween is born.

The band signs to Castle records in 1994. Their next album

“Master of the Rings” was released and became what many

people called a great comeback album! The band went on a

successful tour and new singer Andi Deris surprised many

fans with his versatile and powerful voice. The album was

released a year later in North America with a second disc

containing all 7 b-sides from the album. Tragedy also struck

the band as former drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg

committed suicide in 1995.

Helloween went back into the studio and released “The Time

Of The Oath” in 1996, which was hailed by the press as their

best album since the Keeper era. The album contained songs

loosely based on the writings of Nostradamus. Helloween

was back on top as The Time of The Oath earned them many

gold and platinum albums throughout the world. Later that

year they released the double live album “High Live” and

17

was elected best band of 1996 by the Japanese magazine

Buurn.

While the band began to write for the next album, Andi

Deris released his first solo album “Come In From The

Rain” and Roland Grapow released his first solo album “The

Four Seasons of Life”. 1998 brought along the album Better

Than Raw which was yet again released to rave reviews

throughout the press. The band combined modern elements

with their traditional Helloween sound which made for quite

a unique album and went down well with fans. Roland

Grapow also releases his second solo album. 1999 saw the

band take a break and release a covers album entitled “Metal

Jukebox”. This album contained a variety of rock, pop and

metal classics which influenced the band. The band then set

off to write their next album.

capitulo3

The band signed a two album deal with Nuclear Blast in the

year 2000. Their next album entitled “The Dark Ride” ,

produced by Roy Z and Charlie Bauerfeind was released

shortly after. The album became one of Helloween‟s worst

selling albums ever as the band took a darker and more

modern sounding approach. Reviews of “The Dark Ride”

in the press were mixed along with many fan reactions.

Some liking the new direction and most wanting the

Helloween of old. Tensions between members of the band

began which led to the firing of guitarist Roland Grapow and

drummer Uli Kusch. The band also released "Treasure

18

Chest", a 2 disc best of release that also had some older

Helloween songs remixed. The best of also came as a

limited edition with a bonus disc called "Buried Treasure"

which contained some rare b-sides.

The band then recruits former Metalium drummer Mark

Cross on drums and former Freedom Call guitarist Sasha

19

Gerstner. In 2003 the band began to record for their next

album, however their new drummer Mark Cross was

diagnosed with mononucleosis and could only complete two

songs for the recordings and thus was forced to leave the

band. Former King Diamond and current Motorhead

drummer Mikkey Dee is called in to complete the band‟s

studio recordings on the drums.

Rabbit Don‟t Come Easy was released and drummer Stefan

Schwarzmann is called in to join the band for the tour. The

album sold well and the band completed a very successful

tour around the world. Stefan Schwarzmann decided to

leave the band after the tour but stayed throughout the

preproduction for the next album until the band found a

replacement. Dani Löble, ex-drummer of RAWHEAD

REXX turned out to be the perfect drummer for Helloween

and the band began to record the follow-up to Rabbit Don‟t

Come Easy.

On October 31st 2005 the band releases a follow-up to their

legendary Keeper albums entitled “Keeper of The Seven

Keys - The Legacy”. The album brought more critical

acclaim to the band and was received well throughout the

world. The success of the album and it‟s subsequent tour

20

was so strong the band released a double live DVD and

double live CD. In 2007, to commemorate their last two

years of success, Helloween released a double Live CD

entitled "Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy World

Tour 2005/2006 - Live In Sao Paulo" and a double live DVD

entitled "Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy World

Tour 2005/2006 - Live On 3 Continents".

The band has just released their newest album "Gambling

With the Devil" to great reviews. It's an album that takes

them down a much heavier path and is described by singer

Andi Deris as a mixture of Walls Of Jericho and Master of

The Rings". The band will be embarking on a world tour

that kicks off in Europe with Gamma Ray and Axxis.