Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy

Infobox Album | Name = Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy
Type = studio
Artist = Helloween


Released = October 31, 2005 (UK)
Recorded = December 2004 - June 2005
Genre = Power metal, progressive metal
Length = 1:17:41
1:22:41 w/ bonus track
Label = SPV
Producer = Charlie Bauerfeind
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:y1uw6j5571u0 link]
*Rock Something Rating|2|5 [http://rocksomething.com/reviews/reviewHelloween.html link]
Last album = "Rabbit Don't Come Easy" (2003)
This album = "Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy" (2005)
Next album = "Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006" (2007) |

"Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy" is the twelfth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released October 312005. The musicians, Andi Deris (vocals), Michael Weikath (guitar), Markus Grosskopf (bass), Sascha Gerstner (guitar) and new addition Dani Löble (drums, ex-Rawhead Rexx), see this recording in direct context with their 1987 and 1988 classics Keeper Of The Seven Keys parts I and II. The album is a double CD with nearly 80 minutes playing time and comes in a digipack with 6 flaps. Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy leans more towards the genre of Progressive metal than the previous album, Rabbit Don't Come Easy, which was much more of a Power metal album. It was produced by Charlie Bauerfeind (Blind Guardian, Halford, Rage) and features Blackmore's Night singer Candice Night on the track "Light The Universe".

This album was heavily criticized for being released on two CDs, since without the Japanese bonus track, it all fits onto one 80-minute CD.

Track listing

Disc one

#"The King for a 1000 Years" (Music: Helloween; Lyrics: Deris) – 13:54
#"The Invisible Man" (Gerstner) – 7:17
#"Born on Judgment Day" (Weikath) – 6:14
#"Pleasure Drone" (Gerstner) – 4:08
#"Mrs. God" (Deris) – 2:55
#"Silent Rain" (Music: Gerstner; Lyrics: Deris) – 4:21

Disc two

#"Occasion Avenue" (Deris) – 11:04
#"Light the Universe" (Deris) – 5:00
#"Do You Know What You're Fighting For?" (Weikath) – 4:45
#"Come Alive" (Deris) – 3:20
#"The Shade in the Shadow" (Deris) – 3:24
#"Get It Up" (Weikath) – 4:13
#"My Life for One More Day" (Music & lyrics: Grosskopf/Deris) – 6:51
#"Revolution" (Japanese bonus track) - 5:06

Credits

Music

*Andi Deris – vocals, keyboards
*Michael Weikath – guitar
*Sascha Gerstner – guitar, keyboards
*Markus Grosskopf – bass
*Dani Loeble – drums

*Candice Night guest vocal on "Light The Universe"
*Backing vocals by Oliver Hartmann & Olaf Senkbeil
*Keyboards by Friedel Amon

Production

*Produced by Charlie Bauerfeind at Mi Sueno Studio, Tenerife
*Design and cover artwork by Martin Häusler
*Photography by Mathias Bothor