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Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy Audio CD

A fair review of the Helloween "Rabbit Don't Come Easy" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Helloween reviews here, or go back to the Helloween tabs.

Helloween Band: Helloween
Title: Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-05-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Just a Little Sign 2: Open Your Life 3: The Tune 4: Never Be A Star 5: Liar 6: Sun 4 The World 7: Don't Stop Being Crazy 8: Do You Feel Good 9: Hell Was Made In Heaven 10: Back Against The Wall 11: Listen To The Flies 12: Nothing To Say

Post Grapow....
Ordered this CD about September 2007 from Amazon. the departure of Grapow and replaced by Sasha obviously sounds more happier metal compare to their previous releases excluding Pink Bubbles and Chameleon. . . (I mean from Master of the Rings until The Dark Ride) which more dark and serious!METAL got to be that way man. . . Anyway the album still one of my favourites.


A change for Helloween, but a neutral one...
The "new" Helloween has lost nothing with the departure of Michael Kiske. Andi Deris is firmly ensconced in Helloween as lead singer at this point. Deris is capable of reaching the high notes quite well and is more aggressive, but still very melodic in the Helloween tradition of speed metal.

Most recently, we have the departure of Roland Grapow as the main guitarist handling the leads. In his place is Sascha Gerstner. The main thing I notice is that Sascha's style is more like that of Michael Schenker. He plays with a lot of feeling and possesses a good vibrato and some nice little tricks. I feel with this CD and the most recent "Keeper. . . Legacy" with him contributing quite a bit, the band has scored some more commercial singles with tunes like "Mrs. God" and "Invisible Man" etc. This particular CD does not have songs quite on that level, but it's very good. . . I think it's a trade off, somewhat, because I don't hear that Gerstner can play as fast Grapow or Kai Hansen could, but again, he has a lot more melodic sense than Grapow had. Whether this will be good or bad, I'm not sure. My feeling is that it doesn't make any difference. The band is still producing fantastic stuff and if you listen to the recent "Keeper. . . Live in Sao Paulo" release, you can hear that Gerstner and vocalist Deris do a fantastic job on both the old and new material. This CD is four stars. This, "Master of the Rings" and "Time of the Oath" are all four star performances (both of which had Grapow).

The only release that tops them is "Better than Raw" (Grapow on that CD) and "Keeper. . . Live in Sao Paulo" (Gerstner on that CD). Those two releases are five star classics.


Not Their Best But FAR From Another Chameleon
Well Now, Here is an interesting addition to the pumpkin-head catalog. . Now me being a huge Helloween fan, (Even finding enjoyment within the dismal Chameleon album) I can honestly say that I am a bit lost with this album, I was promised something back to their roots, And while this is a decent attempt, It didnt completley fufill my ambitions, However, It is a solid album. The problem with this one though, Is that there are amazong songs, good songs & sucky songs. It does include 2 of my favorite Helloween tracks. ("Liar", and my all-time favorite Helloween Song, "Do You Feel Good?")
I can easily reccomend this album to any Helloween fan, But It IS NOT Another Walls Of Jerhico or Key-Keeper album.
Oh, the reason i dont like this album is "Sun For The World," and "Don't Stop Being Crazy" I'm not very partial to the "Egyptian" tone they both let off.

Killer Songs Include:
Just A Little Sign, Open Your Life, Never Be A Star, Liar, Do You Feel Good, Hell Was Made in Heaven.

GOOD Songs Include:
The Tune, Back Against The Wall, Nothing To Say

Sucky Songs Include:
Don't Stop Being Crazy, Sun For The World, Listen To The Flies & Far Away
ENJOY THE HEADBANGING!!!.


What the #%#@%^# happened?!!!
Helloween Is in my top 5 bands but this album sucks. I really hate doing this and I mean I REALLY hate doing this. I wanted to finish out my collection with this and Better than Raw but I don't know why I waited so anxiously waiting on this one. The lyrics suck (and I love Deris) and the music is mostly mediocre. There are a couple of songs on here that have some good soloing but there is no consistency and no rememberable songs. Basically, this is an easily forgetable cd that really has nothing to do with Helloween much like the latter Kiske albums, I hate to say.

There has hardly anything to do with their usual subject matter and it has a lot of songs about male/female dynamics which has NEVER been in a Helloween song, outside of Metal jukebox which doesn't count. I'm just really dissapointed in this and hope I like Better Than Raw better than this.


I Love The Title
Most People Took One Look at The Title And Deemed This Crap ut I Enjoyed It (As I Do Pink Bubbles Go Ape. Most People Dont, Dunno Why, Oh well Return To A From Yes, Old School Kiske Helloween From No Almost But No, The Time Of The Oath Form However I Must Say This Is The Form They Returned Too. . Chameleon However Well Not So Much. . ) All In All The TRakcs Are Solid Much Better Than The Dark Ride If You Wanna Get A Look into Newer Helloween Start Here.


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