Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2
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| Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 | ||||
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| 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) |
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| Label | Noise | |||
| Producer | Tommy Hansen | |||
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Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 is the third 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[1] 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, 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 wasn't 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.
The album was re-released in 1993 as a double-CD with Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1. It included the bonus tracks "Don't Run for Cover", "Living Ain't No Crime", and "Savage".
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[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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. | "Save Us" | Hansen | 5:12 |
| 8. | "March of Time" | Hansen | 5:13 |
| 9. | "I Want Out" | Hansen | 4:39 |
| 10. | "Keeper of the Seven Keys" | Weikath | 13:38 |
"Save Us" is moved to track 10 on the Expanded Edition and the Noise Records re-release of 1993.
| Expanded edition bonus tracks (disc 2) | |||||||||
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| 1. | "Savage" | 3:25 | |||||||
| 2. | "Livin' Ain't No Crime" | 4:42 | |||||||
| 3. | "Don't Run for Cover" | 4:45 | |||||||
| 4. | "Dr Stein (Remix)" | 5:05 | |||||||
| 5. | "Keeper of the Seven Keys (Remix)" | 13:52 | |||||||
- M - 1,2 also appears on the Dr. Stein.
- M - 3 also appears on the I Want Out.
- M - 4,5 also appears on the Treasure Chest
[edit] 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"
[edit] Chart Positions
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1988 | The Billboard 200 | 108 |
