Better Than Raw

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Better Than Raw
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Studio album by Helloween
Released 14 April 1998
Recorded 1997 at Chateau du Pape and Crazy Cat Studios, Hamburg, Germany and Mi Sueño Studio, Tenerife, Spain
Genre Power metal
Length 52:58
Label Castle Communications
Producer Tommy Hansen and Helloween
Helloween chronology
High Live
(1996)High Live1996		 Better Than Raw
(1998)		 Metal Jukebox
(1999)Metal Jukebox1999
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars [1]

Better Than Raw is the eighth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1998.[2][3] The album spawned the singles "I Can" and "Hey Lord!".

The album was recorded at Chateau du Pape and Crazy Cat Studios in Hamburg and at Mi Sueño Studio in Tenerife. It was produced and mixed by Tommy Hansen at Chateau du Pape and mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis, London.

Track listing

No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period in Z"   Instrumental Kusch 1:45
2. "Push"   Deris/Kusch/Weikath Kusch 4:45
3. "Falling Higher"   Deris/Weikath Weikath 4:45
4. "Hey Lord!"   Deris Deris 4:07
5. "Don't Spit on My Mind"   Deris Deris/Grosskopf 4:24
6. "Revelation"   Deris Kusch 8:21
7. "Time"   Deris Deris 5:43
8. "I Can"   Weikath Deris/Weikath 4:38
9. "A Handful of Pain"   Deris Kusch 4:49
10. "Laudate Dominum"   Weikath Weikath 5:10
11. "Midnight Sun"   Weikath Weikath 6:19
Expanded Edition bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Back on the Ground"   Kusch/Deris 4:40
2. "A Game We Shouldn't Play"   Deris 3:38
3. "Perfect Gentleman" (live bootleg version) Deris/Weikath 3:27
4. "Moshi Moshi~Shiki No Uta" (live drum solo) Kusch/Grapow 6:53
  • M - 2 also appears on the "I Can" single.
  • M - 3,4 also appears on the "Hey Lord!" single.

Personnel

Helloween

Others

  • Jorn Ellerbrock - keyboards
  • Tommy Hansen (producer) - keyboards
  • Jutta Weinhold, Ralf Maurer, Christina Hahne and Helloween members - Backing vocals

Trivia

  • Hanson have been known to use the album introduction as an entrance to their concerts.
  • Laudate Dominum was written as a tribute for the band's dedicated fans in Spain, South America and other Catholic countries.
  • Midnight Sun is about the ending of a bad relationship.
  • The cover was inspired by The Smurfs, with Gargamel changed for the witch and the Smurfs for pumpkins.
  • As opposed to the more benign-looking pumpkin used on previous albums, a sinister-looking pumpkin is used to represent the "o" in the "Helloween" logo. Albeit with a few minor tweaks, it is still currently in use.

References

  1. ↑ Better Than Raw at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
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