Master of the Rings [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Helloween

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2001)
• Original Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sanctuary Records
• ASIN: B00005OADN
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #323,679 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Irritation

2. Sole Survivor

3. Where the Rain Grows

4. Why?

5. Mr. Ego

6. Perfect Gentleman

7. Game Is On

8. Secret Alibi

9. Take Me Home

10. In the Middle of a Heartbeat

11. Still We Go

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Album, November 20, 2005

By	Christopher Fryer (Colorado United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first got into Helloween with Keeper Of The Seven Keys-Part I and then I stopped following them. It wasn't until I got a double cd called The Encyclopedia of German Metal in 1997 that I re-discovered Helloween with the song Why? By this time of course lead singer Michael Kiske was out and Andi Deris from the band Pink Cream 69 was in. Master Of Rings is full of great vocal melodies, good riffs, and catchy choruses. My favorites are Mr. Ego, Why, Where The Rain Grows, Perfect Gentleman, Secret Alibi, and the ballad In The Middle Of A Heartbeat. I know a lot of long time fans were not happy with Master Of Rings but I like this kind of melodic power metal so I continue to follow them with each album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this album!!!, September 27, 2001

By	Colin Callanan (Co.Sligo, Co.SLigo Ireland) - See all my reviews

This was Helloweens first album with Deris (of Pink Cream 69 fame)and it was an excellent return to form at that time. The two albums before this one weren't really classic Helloween but this stuff is really what the fans of theirolder albums had been waiting for..and more! It's still VERY different to the Keeper albums overall but it has the feel of a great Heavy Metal album with some Hard Rock'ish elements. Andi Deris wrote some great stuff for the Hard Rock band Pink Cream 69, and with his Powers combined with Weiki, Roland and Uli we have an undoutably excellent songwriting team. "Soul Survivor" is a song along classic, "Father" is a beautiful melodic Metal song with some very original elements and "Still we go" is like something from the Keeper albums... it's all here!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let me tell you something..., October 3, 2003

By	The Grinder (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

... "Master of the Rings" is THE comback of Helloween! There are a few bands who managed to make it back with a new singer, and Helloween is one of them. "Master" is the first album featuring Andi Deris (ex-Pink Cream 69), who stepped in after Michael Kiske took off in 1993. Obviously Helloween put a lot on this album and if it would fail, the band probably wouldn't exist now. But fortunately, the material of the CD is a total blast from the first notes of the "Irritation" to the last chords of "Still We Go".

And another good thing about this album is that Deris is not trying to repeat Kiske (which is simply impossible anyway), but does his own thing and does it very profesionally.

Very fresh, very funny, very multisided. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and a MUST for Melodic Metal fans!