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Helloween is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Biff Byford, Roy Z, Noise Records, White Room and Hellhammer. Those roots explain a lot about how Helloween arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Edguy, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, Primal Fear and Avantasia, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into JerryC, Systems in Blue, Combat Records, Armored Saint and Overkill, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 63 connections around Helloween, reaching back through Biff Byford and forward to JerryC. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Helloween is a German power metal band founded in 1984 in Hamburg by members of bands Iron Fist, Gentry, Second Hell and Powerfool. The band has at times been called one of the most influential European heavy metal bands of the 1980s. Its first lineup consisted of singer and guitarist Kai Hansen, bassist Markus Grosskopf, guitarist Michael Weikath and drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg. By the time Hansen left Helloween in 1989 to form Gamma Ray, the band had evolved into a five-piece, with Michael Kiske taking over as lead vocalist. Schwichtenberg and Kiske both parted ways with Helloween in 1993; Schwichtenberg died two years later as the result of suicide. Between then and 2016, there had been numerous line-up changes, leaving Grosskopf and Weikath as the only remaining original members. As a septet, their current lineup features all of the surviving members of the Keeper of the Seven Keys lineup, in addition to the remaining members from the Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy-era.
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Helloween connections
Helloween grew out of Biff Byford, Roy Z, Noise Records and White Room, shares an orbit with Edguy, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian and Primal Fear, went on to shape JerryC, Systems in Blue, Combat Records and Armored Saint. 63 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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