Better Than Raw

Artist: Helloween
Label: Sbme Castle Us
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 060768522329
EAN: 0060768522329
ASIN: B00005Q6KE

Release Date: 2001-09-15

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Tracks:

Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period in Z
Push
Falling Higher
Hey Lord!
Don't Spit on My Mind
Revelation
Time
I Can
Handful of Pain
Lavdate Dominvm
Midnight Sun
Game We Shouldn't Play [*]

Customer Reviews:

Better than Most.......2006-12-09

Originally released in 1998, Better than Raw is, in my humble opinion, the absolute best album Helloween has released since the classic Keeper of the Seven Keys albums. By bringing in former Pink Cream 69 vocalist Andi Deris to replace Michael Kiske, the band seemed to regain the focus and energy missing from the last couple of Kiske albums. All of the Deris-era Helloween albums are quite good, especially those released in the 1990's, but Better than Raw stands out as the best of the bunch.

This is Helloween doing what they do best - delivering the kind of high-energy melodic power metal that they pretty much invented in the first place. Everything about this album, from the songwriting to the music to the cover art is an improvement over its predecessors. The album is full of strong tracks, though songs like Push, Hey Lord, I Can, and Midnight Sun stand out. This is the kind of album that would bring old-school Helloween fans back to the fold, and one of the only albums released since founding guitarist Kai Hansen left that is truly on par with his band Gamma Ray's albums.

Lives up to the reviews.......2002-07-02

I quickly picked up this CD after reading all the great reviews its gotten here. The reviews are 100% correct. This is one hell of CD. The production is outstanding. Listen to this CD in your headphones and U will know what I mean. Its great!

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