Michael Weikath Interview: 2-20-02

Tony Webster: Why did you guys decide to release a best-of?

Michael Weikath; Well it was the idea of the management. They have bought Castle records and Noise records so they own all of the songs under one roof. So what's the most natural thing? Well to do a best of. They wanted us to come up with some new tracks so we could release a new single but this wasn't going to happen since the situation in the band was critical and we had just got back from the tour. Even though they asked us before, it was clear that nobody wanted to go into the studio to record some brilliant new tracks that you could possibly publish as a single. So the idea came up to do an A's and B's, and they said no, they wanted to do a best of. At first they wanted to put it on one CD and we said we wanted two CDs God Damnit, ...Read More>>

Andi Deris Interview: 8-14-2000

Andi and I did this interview and this is probably the best interview I have ever done or seen with him period. A lot of the things he has to say in this one are thought provoking, honest and very interesting.. Check it out.

Tony Webster: So how does this new album "The Dark Ride" differ from previous Helloween works?

Andi Deris: Well it is definitely a lot darker sounding. You know there are bands in America for example that use a lot of down tuned guitars and have a darker sound. Now we use these types of sounds in our new album but we dont use the music. I would say this new album is a combination of Keeper era Helloween and a combination of new sounds such as down tuned guitars. The themes in the songs are also pretty dark sounding. This album is just Helloween evolving as it always has. We have a single so far coming out in a month or so called "If I Could Fly" which is for Europe and Japan and a single for "Mirror Mirror on The Wall" for the USA possible and a video for If I Could Fly for Europe and Japan so far. We picked Mirror Mirror for the USA since we feel most people would relate to  ...Read More>>

Markus Grosskopf Interview: 11-20-2001

In this interview Markus talks about the upcoming best-of album, the next album, Mark Cross, and rates bassists and singers. 

Tony Webster: So when is the best of album coming out and can you tell me a bit more about it?

Markus Grosskopf Well, we are working on it and a lot of tracks will be remixed and re-mastered by Charlie Bauerfeind. I think one older track will be sung by Andi. This will be a double album which will be out in January or the end of this year. There will be some cool artwork a nice booklet and cool stuff like that.

Tony Webster: What song are you going to re-record with Andi singing? 

Markus Grosskopf Well the original idea was to have him sing Windmill....maybe, but I am not quite sure since it was the first idea of a song for Andi to do. We will see. ...Read More>>