#Kai Hansen

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I forgot to mention that this was inspired by @stormylewirmy 😭

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🎃Ah it's Halloween.... tonight!🤘🤘 Helloween🤘🤘 👌🎤🎼💞🎶🎸 🔪🎃💕🤘❤😘☺😊🤘🤘🔝👌🎶💕

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Round Two

Helloween

Defeated opponents: Simply Red

Formed in: 1984

Genres: Power metal, thrash metal

Lineup: Michael Kiske – vocals

Kai Hansen – guitar

Michael Weikath – guitar

Markus Grosskopf – bass

Ingo Schwichtenberg – drums

Jörn Ellerbrock - keyboards

Albums from the 80s:

Helloween EP (1985)

Walls of Jericho (1985)

Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I (1987)

Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II (1988)

Live in the U.K. (1989)

Pumpkin Tracks (1989)

Propaganda: “The very pioneer of Power Metal, Keeper of the seven keys are iconic.”

The Cross

Defeated opponents: The Pogues

Formed in: 1987

Genres: Pop rock, dance-rock, hard rock

Lineup: Roger Taylor- lead vocals and rhythm guitar (of queen)

Spike Edney- keyboard and backing vocals (of queen)

Clayton Moss- lead guitar and backing vocals

Peter Noone- bass guitar and backing vocals

Josh Macrae- drums and backing vocals

Albums from the 80s:

Shove It (1988)

Propaganda: “Roger and Spike and Clayton make me drop 2 my knees g o d”

“Who could resist this late 80s-tastic set of haircuts? Or this happy onstage atmosphere? Vote The Cross! Or this man wants to know the reason why!”

Visual propaganda for The Cross:

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Friday, April 5: Helloween, "Warrior"

R.I.P. Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965-1995)

Helloween’s debut EP was an inadvertent rallying cry for a new movement that, while running in parallel with the rapid development of thrash in America and including many of the same influences, soon became its own thing and has arguably persisted longer than any other subgenre in metal history.  But “Warrior” didn’t necessarily signal the birth of power metal: Kai Hansen’s frenzied yelping had little of the precision and soaring glory of Michael Kiske, and the music was just too fast and frantic for anyone to really process what was going on.  But Helloween (after a couple years of woodshedding in earlier groups like Iron Fist and Powerfool) was clearly on to something, because “Warrior” was super-fast, ultra-heavy and incredibly catchy in equal measure, and even Metallica wasn’t operating at quite this level (though to be fair they were really on their own level).  Most of all, the band’s joy at playing this kind of music was always palpable, as was their hunger, and that made even their most unhinged early material such fun.

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Gamma Ray "Power Plant"

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Helloween - Rare Interview On Viva (German TV Channel) 1996 (Full HD Remastered Video)

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Helloween –Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I  (1987) art by Edda and Uwe Karczewski

Source: jbetcom

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Helloween 🎃🤘

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Some pictures I took from Kai's social networks

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Now playing: Helloween - Helloween (2021)

A fantastic album which marks the return of founding member Kai Hansen on vocals and guitar since 1988’s Keeper Of The Seven Keys. It also marks the return of vocalist Michael Kiske since 1993’s Chameleon. A fantastic album overall. This one is pressed on marbled gold vinyl.