Helloween "The Dark Ride (2013 Reissue, Limited Edition Digipak, Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 3264-0/27361 32640)"

The Dark Ride is the ninth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 2000. The album's style was quite different from Better Than Raw as it had a much darker sound, drop-tuned guitars, and gruffer vocals. The album was produced by Roy Z and Charlie Bauerfeind. It is the last studio album to feature Master of the Rings-era lineup with the dismissal of guitarist Roland Grapow and drummer Uli Kusch after completion of the supporting tour for the album. They went on to form the band Masterplan.

The album contains two singles, which are "If I Could Fly" and "Mr. Torture".

In later interviews, bassist Markus Grosskopf commented on the album, saying: "The Dark Ride was kind of constructed, all the people were telling us try this, let's do this, you know, it's a good album but it's a very difficult way to do records when there's somebody always going on your nerves all the time", and that the album "sounded like it did because certain people wanted us to work with other certain people. We let people come in and mess with the arrangements, and re-work the lyrics, and generally do just what they wanted. They wanted us to work like that, and we agreed. If they wanted us to do it that way, then we were willing to give it a try and see what happened with it."

Track listing

1. "Beyond the Portal" Andi Deris 0:45
2. "Mr. Torture" Uli Kusch 3:27
3. "All Over the Nation" Michael Weikath 4:55
4. "Escalation 666" Roland Grapow 4:24
5. "Mirror, Mirror" Deris 3:43
6. "If I Could Fly" Deris 4:09
7. "Salvation" Weikath 5:43
8. "The Departed (Sun Is Going Down)" Kusch 4:37
9. "I Live for Your Pain" Deris 3:59
10. "We Damn the Night" Deris 4:07
11. "Immortal" Deris 4:04
12. "The Dark Ride" Grapow 8:48
13. "The Madness of the Crowds" Deris 4:12
14. "Deliver Us from Temptation" Markus Grosskopf, Weikath 4:54
15. "If I Could Fly (Single Edit)" Deris 3:30

Time:  01:05:20

On some copies of "The Dark Ride" and "Rabbit Don't Come Easy" (as a special two for the price of one cd) the disc has "Mr. Torture" and "All Over the Nations" in reverse order so this way the latter is track #2. The tracks are also flipped on the Japanese version of the CD. Also on copies of the special two for one cd, there is a listing for track #13, "Far Away" on Rabbit Don't Come Easy, which does not exist on the CD and is a misprint on the back label.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed 2000 at Mi Sueño Música, Tenerife, Spain.

Mastered at Staerling Sound, New York, USA.

Helloween "I Want Out - Live (2000 Reissue, USA, Spitfire Records, BMG 5125-2)"

Live in the U.K. is the first live album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1989. It was released in Japan as Keepers Live. In the United States, it was released as I Want Out – Live without the track "Rise and Fall", and with a shorter edit of the introduction.

All tracks were recorded in Edinburgh Playhouse, Scotland, by The Manor Mobile on 6 November 1988, except "I Want Out" recorded in Manchester Apollo, England, on 7 November 1988.

This is Helloween's only official live album with drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg, and the only one recorded with vocalist Michael Kiske and guitarist Kai Hansen (who had left the band a few months earlier), until the release of United Alive in Madrid in 2019.

For the first time, the "o" in the "Helloween" logo was not represented by a pumpkin. On I Want Out - Live, it was represented by a globe showing portions of Western Europe, Central Europe, and the British Isles. On Live in the U.K. it is instead drawn as a pumpkin logo on a bass drum.

Cover Artwork by Frederick Moulaert.

Track listing

1. "Happy Halloween/A Little Time" Kiske (A Little Time) 6:34*
2. "Dr. Stein" Weikath 7:00
3. "Future World" Hansen 9:33
4. "Rise and Fall #" Weikath 4:51
5. "We Got the Right" Kiske 6:08
6. "I Want Out / Encores" Hansen 5:58
7. "How Many Tears" Weikath 9:40

Time: 43:45

Track 2 is indicated as "Doctor Stein" on the back cover.

On back cover:

Reissued by Eagle Rock Entertainment, Plc.

* 4:17 on I Want Out – Live issue

# absent on I Want Out – Live issue

On Future World, Kiske briefly sings a part from All Shook Up from Elvis Presley.

Helix "Walkin' The Razor's Edge [2009 Reissue, Remastered, Rock Candy Collector's Edition, Remastered & Reloaded, UK, Rock Candy Records, CANDY0049]"

Walkin' the Razor's Edge is the fourth studio album by the Canadian heavy metal band Helix. It was released on the Capitol Records label in 1984, reaching No. 27 on the Canadian RPM Album Chart, and selling 100,000 copies in Canada and 400,000 internationally.

The video for its lead single, "Rock You", which was filmed in a quarry in Kitchener, Ontario, is perhaps best known for the image of guitar player Brent Doerner emerging from the water to play his guitar solo. "Rock You" reached number 27 on the Canadian RMP Pop Singles Chart, although it was more popular on Canadian rock radio stations. The second single was the Crazy Elephant cover "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'". Two versions of its music video were filmed: One for music video channels, and the other being an "adult" version featuring topless models including a then 16-year-old porn star Traci Lords. This version was aired on the Playboy Channel in the United States. The band also made a promotional video for their A Foot in Coldwater cover, "(Make Me Do) Anything You Want", with the song reaching number 44 on the Canadian RPM Pop Chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Helix except where noted.

1. "Rock You" Bob Halligan Jr. 2:51
2. "Young & Wreckless" 3:22
3. "Animal House" 2:57
4. "Feel the Fire" 3:13
5. "When the Hammer Falls" 3:02
6. "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" (Crazy Elephant cover) Joey Levine, Ritchie Cordell 3:25
7. "My Kind of Rock" 2:54
8. "(Make Me Do) Anything You Want" (A Foot in Coldwater cover) Paul Naumann, Danny Taylor 4:07
9. "Six Strings, Nine Lives" 3:14
10. "You Keep Me Rockin'" 3:38
11. "Young & Wreckless" (live, taken from Live at the Marquee promotional-only EP) 3:25
12. "Rock You" (live, taken from Live at the Marquee promotional-only EP) Halligan Jr. 4:14
13. "Animal House" (live, taken from Live at the Marquee promotional-only EP) 3:32

Recording information:

Produced by Tom Treumuth for Hypnotic Productions, except "Rock You" and "Young & Wreckless", co-produced by Helix and Rodney Mills

Bonus tracks produced by Simon Hanhart

Recorded & Engineered by Dave Wittman

Recorded at Phase One Studios (Toronto), Electric Lady (New York City), Studio One (Atlanta)

Rodney Mills – mixing

Gregory M. Quesnel – mixing assistant

Originally Mastered by Bob Ludwig

Remastered by Jon Astley (2009 Rock Candy version)

Heather Brown, Robert Meecham – art direction

Helix "Rock It Science (USA, Perris Records, PER5382)"

Rock It Science is a compilation album by Canadian Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band Helix, released July 12th, 2016.

Tracklist:

1. Billy Oxygen
2. You're A Woman Now
3. Heavy Metal Love
4. Rock You
5. Deep Cuts The Knife
6. Wild In The Streets
7. Good To The Last Drop
8. Shock City Psycho City
9. Get Up!
10. Make 'Em Dance
11. Even Jesus (Wasn't Loved In His Home Town)
12. (Gene Simmons Says) Rock Is Dead