Master Of The Rings

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Master of the Rings is the sixth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1994. It is the first to feature new members Andi Deris and Uli Kusch. This album contains four single, which are "Where the Rain Grows", "Mr. Ego (Take Me Down)", "Perfect Gentleman", and "Sole Survivor", with corresponding videos for the first three. "Mr. Ego" was dedicated to the band's former singer, Michael Kiske, and was released as an EP in Europe. Helloween and vocalist Michael Kiske had reached the end of the road during the touring of 1993's "Chameleon". Michael Kiske's replacement was Andi Deri, formerly with Pink Cream 69. After an alcohol and drug-related incident in Japan, drummer and co-founder of the band Ingo Schwichtenberg was replaced first by the session-drummer Richie Abdel-Nabi, then on a more permanent basis by former Gamma Ray drummer Uli Kusch, who only arrived when most of the album was already written. After two highly controversial studios projects and a live album, Helloween parted company with EMI record, aligning themselves with the more modestly sized Raw Power (an imprint of Castle Communications). Neverthele, the effect of Deris and Kusch was to re-energize their collective fortune. In Japan, "Master of The Rings" sold more than 120,000 copie. Commenting on the recording sections for the album, bassist Markus Grosskopf said: It was very quick because there was a couple of songs Weiki did and Roland had a couple of stuff and then combined with the stuff Andi brought into the band you know it was very functioning and amazing because it went all so quick. We had like three months to rehearse and then the studio was booked and... That was a very quick session and I kind of liked that. There was also a drummer change because we got Uli Kusch in but we still did all that within like three month. .

via Last.fm

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