Helloween Album: “Hellish Videos: The Complete Video Collection”

Whether you are just getting into Helloween or have been a long time fan, such as myself, there's something on this DVD for you. Every studio album from "Keeper of the 7 Keys part 1" is represented here with at least one track (Master Of The Rings & The Time Of The Oath feature 3 songs).

The great thing about Helloween, as opposed to the vast majority of Metal bands, is that they don't take themselves too seriously & do not put out negative vibes. This definitely comes across in their videos. Most of them are light-hearted, showing the band in a live setting as goofballs, while sometimes more artistic aspects are added to some tracks.

The first 4 songs features Michael Kiske on vocals, the rest are all Andi Deris. Guitarist Kai Hansen can be seen in the first 2 songs - "Halloween" (editied to about 4 & 1/2 minutes) & "I Want Out." Up next are the experimental 7-minute "When The Sinner" from the commercial flop Chameleon and "Kids of the Century" from the less-than-well received Pink Bubbles Go Ape album. It's great to see Ingo behind the drums on these tunes (R.I.P. Ingo)!

Mr. Ego /edited/, Where the Rain Grows, Perfect Gentleman, Power, The Time of the Oath /edited/, Forever & One (Neverland), I Can, If I Could Fly, and Just A Little Sign are the further tracks on this DVD. As I mentioned, just about every song features the band playing their instruments/performing, while sometimes there's a back story or some artsy/whacky/avante-garde interlude.

Some of the videos are slightly cheesy, sometimes just because they are outdated or becuase the band didn't have much of a budget. But Helloween have always been a band to embrace their humorous side. However, some of the tracks do have a darker vibe, which is represented visually, not just sonically.

There aren't too many extras, a pseudo-live version of "Hey Lord" (more like a video montage), a photo gallery and some behind the scenes outtakes from the road round out this collection. I also like how each band member shows up during the main menu after about a minute if you don't select anything. If you're into melodic European metal, this is the DVD for you!

I have been waiting for something like this for a very, very, wery, very, very, very, very, VERY long time, a collection of videos from the power metal gods, HellOween.

Before this, you had to HOPE that they MIGHT play the video "Halloween" on VH1 Classic (forget about MTV). Big emphasis on the word "MIGHT" because it was very rarely played at all, and i can't even remeber them playing "I Wan't Out" even once. With *Hellish Videos" you can watch these two awesome music videos at your leisure. The DVD basically spans videos from HellOween's entire career (except "Walls" of course) from the 80's up till' 2003.

I was never that big on the Andi Deris-era though, if your not, this won't change your mind but some of his stuff with the 'Ween was not bad at all. The best Deris-era songs IMHO were "Power", "Perfect Gentleman", "TotO", "I Can" and "Just a Little Time". I would rate this DVD about 4.5, only beacuse i wish there was just a tad more on the bands early days with Kai, which i haven't seen much footage or literature of anykind on. It is basically a very well put together video chronology of HellOween put together by Andi Deris himself. I will admit though, even though HellOween is still a phenomenal band today, they are a far cry from what they used to be in the late 80s with Kai and Kiske. I was just thinking about that as i flipped through all of the videos they did over the 16 year span, comparing Kiske-era to Deris-era. They essentially went from being a heavy metal band in the 80s to morphing into some kind of weird Alt/experimental/quasi-hard-rock aglamation all through-out the 90s. The extra features were just average, a "live" version of "Hey Lord" and some photos and HellOween & freinds acting like complete fools. Like the big pumpkin on the front of the jewel case as well.

In truth, i really got this for the videos "Halloween" and "I Wan't Out", which alone are worth the price of this thing, but i ended up getting much more out of it then that. All i have to say is that HellOween got totally weird after the "Keepers" albums, just watch some of these viedos and tell me drugs WERN'T involved in the process of making these. Most of these videos are cheesie and goofy, while others are just downright bizzar. Things like egg-yolk glasses and a bouncy mini-guitar bobing around the place are just some of the things that wacked me out with a feeling of "What the HELL were they thinking"? These guys, esp Weikath and Grosskompf, are complete jokesters when their not playing their music. I always thought the germans were serious and not much into goofing around.

Why wasn't there any mention of the late Ingo Swichteneberg (R.I.P.) or Kai Hansen for that matter?

If you are a fan, then this is definatly recommended and totally worth it.

HellOween=POWER METAL!

Oh yeah, Markus Grosskompf doesn't have a drivers licence, which i though was strange.

si es fanatico de la agrupación y le gustan los videos, es una muy buena opción de entretenimiento