{"id":6733,"date":"1987-05-23T00:00:15","date_gmt":"1987-05-23T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2015-02-18T04:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T04:36:47","slug":"news-helloween-release-second-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-helloween-release-second-album\/","title":{"rendered":"HELLOWEEN Release Second Album \u2018Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1\u2019 (May 1987) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

HELLOWEEN Release \u2018Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nMay 1987<\/strong><\/span>
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\nGerman power metal group Helloween issued sophomore album Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1<\/em> in May 1987. The outing was cut between November 1986-January 1987 at Horus Sound Studio in Hanover, Germany. Tommy Newton produced and engineered, with Tommy Hansen co-producing, mixing, and engineering. Edda and Uwe Karczewski designed the front cover artwork from a concept devised by guitarist Kai Hansen. Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1<\/em> was the first of four Helloween studio albums to feature vocalist Michael Kiske. Released through Noise Records, the track listing was as follows;<\/p>\n

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Side one:<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Initiation\u2019
\n02. \u2018I’m Alive\u2019
\n03. \u2018A Little Time\u2019
\n04. \u2018Twilight Of The Gods\u2019
\n05. \u2018A Tale That Wasn’t Right\u2019<\/p>\n

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01. \u2018Future World\u2019
\n02. \u2018Halloween\u2019
\n03. \u2018Follow The Sign\u2019<\/p>\n

Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1<\/em> peaked at position 104 on the Billboard 200 album charts in North America, this happening in the chart week beginning September 5th, 1987.<\/p>\n

Debut studio record Walls Of Jericho<\/em> was issued in October 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HELLOWEEN Release \u2018Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1\u2019 May 1987 German power metal group Helloween issued sophomore album Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1 in May 1987. The outing was cut between November 1986-January 1987 at Horus Sound Studio in Hanover, Germany. Tommy Newton produced and engineered, with Tommy Hansen co-producing, mixing, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helloween-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24071,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/24071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}