Helloween United Pumpkin

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00:00Helloween is the 16th studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released on the

00:1218th of June 2021.

00:14The album is the first released with the Pumpkins United lineup, which marked the return of

00:18original member Kai Hansen on guitars and vocals and Michael Kiska on vocals in 2016,

00:24in addition to the five-member lineup active since 2005.

00:28On the 21st of August 2018, the band announced that they would all remain together and that

00:32a new studio album would be recorded later in 2018 for a planned 2020 release, with Weikath,

00:38Hansen and Deris acting as a songwriting trio.

00:41In March 2019, Deris stated that he had written two duets between him and Kiska for the upcoming

00:47album.

00:48Skyfall was originally written by Hansen for himself to sing, but was eventually convinced

00:52to let Kiska and Deris sing it.

00:55On the 26th of November 2019, the band published a video in which they shared that they had

01:00begun recording their next album in Hamburg.

01:03On the 1st of June 2020, Helloween confirmed that they had decided to shift the release

01:08of their new album to early next year.

01:11Drums of the album were recorded with former drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg's original kit,

01:15and the band utilized the same effect units used when they recorded Master of the Rings,

01:19The Time of the Oath and Better Than Raw.

01:22Six years after its predecessor My God Given Right, the longest gap between two albums

01:26from the band, the album is also the first to feature more than one singer, as Hansen,

01:31Kiska and Andy Deris, all of whom had performed as sole lead vocalist on previous albums,

01:36share lead vocal duties.

01:38The album reached top 10 positions in several international music charts.

01:43Singles from Helloween, Pumpkins United, Skyfall, Fear of the Fallen,