HELLOWEEN Survivor 2017 - Walls Of Jericho - round 2

[The Silent Cody]

WALLS OF JERICHO

Walls of Jericho is the debut full-length studio album bY Helloween, released in 1985 on LP by Noise Records. It is the only album featuring Kai Hansen as lead vocalist, although he would continue to act as guitarist on subsequent albums...

I bought my first copy of this album on some fair, in Warsaw, I think it was something around 1994, I was 11 years old. I was teased with the cover, I loved monsters as a kid especially those which were tearing down the walls with jesus-kind-of-like people on them  The seller played me first song, it was Guardians because it was unofficial release I remember I was stunned with instrumental section. That was definitly something what I was looking for after listening to all Metallica albums round and round....

Kai Hansen – vocals, guitar
Michael Weikath – guitar
Markus Grosskopf – bass
Ingo Schwichtenberg – drums

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We have tear down the Walls Of Jericho which was of course the first obvious choice to make. Now I'm very very curious about the results of this round. I'm voting Reptile. I never liked so much that song, but it has some moments that I would put elsewhere, into other songs  Then it would even much more perfect Helloween album 

[Mladen]

Heavy Metal (Is The Law)

Confession time - this is one of my least favorite Helloween albums. Although still good, it lacks the melodic qualities of later albums, it's slightly more raw then what I enjoy to hear from Helloween, and Kai didn't quite master his vocal chops the way he did in Gamma Ray.

[The Silent Cody]

Heavy Metal (Is The Law)

Confession time - this is one of my least favorite Helloween albums. Although still good, it lacks the melodic qualities of later albums, it's slightly more raw then what I enjoy to hear from Helloween, and Kai didn't quite master his vocal chops the way he did in Gamma Ray.

You're 100% right. Hansen's vocal was very different in Gamma Ray. It's even hard to recognize him, if You don't know that he was a vocalist on Walls Of Jericho. Anyway, I like that side of Helloween. Walls Of Jericho is the most agressive album from them. I like their darker side, which You can hear on The Dark Ride or Better Than Raw. I was introduced to Helloween with Walls Of Jericho so it's kind of natural that I like that non-melodic side of them

[MirrorMask]

Reptile

[jjrock88]

Reptile

[Evermind]

Reptile

[Eldomm]

Heavy Metal (Is The Law)

[wolfking]

Heavy Metal (Is The Law)

[wolfking]

Heavy Metal (Is The Law)

Confession time - this is one of my least favorite Helloween albums. Although still good, it lacks the melodic qualities of later albums, it's slightly more raw then what I enjoy to hear from Helloween, and Kai didn't quite master his vocal chops the way he did in Gamma Ray.

I really like this album but not one I listen to much compared to most of the others.  I can see why some wouldn't rate it due to the less melodic more thrash elements to it.  This is a brutal, raw power thrash metal album. 

[TAC]

Reptile