The pumpkin is continuing its triumphal march: following their sensational world tour, which proved to over 150,000 fans at almost 80 shows in over 30 countries night afternight that Helloween’s current album, ‘Keeper Of The Seven Keys -The Legacy’, is a worthy successor to their two cult recordings, ‘Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I’ and ‘Part II’, the band surrounding vocalist Andi Deris and guitarist Michael Weikath are about to take Europe’s festivalstages by storm. To mark this occasion, Steamhammer/SPV together with Cargoare about to release Helloween’s new masterpiece in a sought-after, popular-with-collectorsvinyl version mid June. In other words: ‘Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy’ will be out on double LP in a gatefold sleeve. A must for everymelodic metal fan! The band has also announced the impendingrelease of a double DVD, filmed during shows in Sofia, Tokyoand Sao Paulo. In Sao Paulo alone, Helloween played in frontof over 6000 enthusiastic fans. Alongside the live footage, the double DVD will include lots of exciting bonus material - release date to be announced by SPV in the coming weeks. Helloween will present an excellent best-ofset at the upcoming summer festivals, featuring all their important hits,including the odd cult number, for the first time performed by the currentline-up - definitely something to look forward to!!
Here are the current summer festival datesin Europe:
03.06. I-Milano - Gods Of Metal Festival 05.06. P-Porto - Luisitania Fest 23.06. D-Balingen - Bang Your Head Festival 24.06. F-Clisson - Hellfest 25.06. B-Dessel - Graspop Metal Meeting 30.06. E-Pravia - Derrame Rock 01.07. NL-Burgum - Waldrock Open Air 15.07. CZ-Vizovice - Masters Of Rock OpenAir 28.07. E-Jerez - Metalway Festival 30.07. E-Gernika - Metalway Festival 05.08. SWE-Hultsfred - Gates Of Metal 12.08. FIN-Imatra - Rock To The RiverFestival 17.08. NOR - Oslo Ragna Rock 18.08. FIN-Oulo - Jalo Metalli Festival
As of early October 2006, Helloween are scheduledto continue their Legacy tour in Russia and the Ukraine,concluding their one-year world tour with an extensive tour of NorthAmerica and Canada. Dates to be announced in the next few days!
Legacy on LP / new DVD