Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2

Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2
Studio album by Helloween
Released	September, 1988
Recorded	May – June 1988 at Horus Sound studio, Hannover, Germany
Genre	Power metal
Length	54:33 (w/o bonus tracks) 1:26:21 (w/ bonus tracks)
Label	Noise
Producer	Tommy Hansen
Helloween chronology
Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 (1987) Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 (1988) Live in the UK (1989)

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Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1988. The album capitalized on the success of Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 and picks up where it left off. Success bloomed all over Europe, Asia and even the United States. The album went gold in Germany and reached #108 in the US.

The album contains two singles, which are "Dr. Stein" and "I Want Out". "Dr. Stein" has a very long and moody solo, played with a blues tinge, very unlike other solos in the album as well as an organ solo. "I Want Out" remains one of the band's most popular songs, and has been covered by Gamma Ray, Unisonic, HammerFall, LORD and Sonata Arctica. This song was written by Kai Hansen, and it's rumored to have to do with how he felt about Helloween, that maybe the band was not his anymore.^{[citation needed]} The title track is the longest song of the album. Michael Weikath's "Eagle Fly Free", one of the well known songs of the album has also been covered, as Kai Hansen's "I Want Out", by bands like Vision Divine, and Bassinvaders.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Invitation"	Weikath	1:06
2.	"Eagle Fly Free"	Weikath	5:08
3.	"You Always Walk Alone"	Kiske	5:08
4.	"Rise and Fall"	Weikath	4:22
5.	"Dr. Stein"	Weikath	5:03
6.	"We Got the Right"	Kiske	5:07
7.	"March of Time"	Hansen	5:13
8.	"I Want Out"	Hansen	4:39
9.	"Keeper of the Seven Keys"	Weikath	13:38
10.	"Save Us"	Hansen	5:15

• "Save Us" was not included on the original LP: appears on the NOISE Records release.

Expanded edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Savage"	Kiske	3:25
2.	"Livin' Ain't No Crime"	Weikath	4:42
3.	"Don't Run for Cover"	Kiske	4:45
4.	"Dr Stein (Remix)"	Weikath	5:05
5.	"Keeper of the Seven Keys (Remix)"	Weikath	13:52

• Tracks 1 and 2 also appear on the "Dr. Stein" single
• Track 3 also appears on the "I Want Out" single
• Tracks 4 and 5 also appear on the Treasure Chest compilation

Credits

• Michael Kiske - vocals
• Kai Hansen - guitar
• Michael Weikath - guitar, keyboards
• Markus Grosskopf - bass guitar, fretless bass in "Eagle Fly Free"
• Ingo Schwichtenberg - drums

• Engineered by Tommy Hansen and Tommy Newton
• Mixed by Tommy Newton for "I Got Confused Productions"

Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1988	The Billboard 200	108