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Review title: an overlooked gem
Product review: Though known to most as a premier power metal act on Keeper of the Seven Keys, Helloween was, on this first album, a raw thrashy speed metal act, somewhere between Metallica and Iron Maiden. Fierce and brutal but also optimistic and sometimes even humorous, this album features tight playing, melodic harmonized guitars, blistering tempos and shrieking falsetto vocals. The songs themselves are quite well-written as well, reaching beyond then-typical thrash cliches with tongue-in-cheek trash culture odes like "Reptile" and "Gorgor", life-affirming athems like "Ride the Sky" and "Heavy Metal (is the law)" and more ambitious, complex compositions like "Phantom of Death" and "How Many Tears". They may have gone onto bigger and better things, but this album still sounds different from anything in their catalog, and most anything else at the time. This album is what metal is truly about.
