Vinyl Record

Helloween - Metal Jukebox

Buy Helloween’s Metal Jukebox on limited red and orange splatter vinyl from Kilmorna in Listowel—a vivid LP of adventurous heavy-rock covers.

LP · Metal · 1999

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1999 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.

Metal Jukebox finds Helloween treating the rock canon as raw material rather than museum property. The selection moves freely across generations and styles: Scorpions’ “He’s a Woman – She’s a Man,” Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” ABBA’s “Lay All Your Love on Me,” David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and Faith No More’s “From Out of Nowhere” all pass through the band’s bright, muscular heavy-metal language. Even the compact “All My Loving” is reshaped by the album’s energetic attack. The longer second side lets the group stretch out. “Faith Healer,” “Hocus Pocus,” “White Room” and “Mexican” invite dramatic vocals, twin-guitar colour and changes of pace, showing why this is more than a novelty covers set. Helloween’s personality connects material drawn from pop, progressive rock, glam and hard rock without flattening those differences. This 2022 reissue places that eclectic programme on a limited red-and-orange splatter LP, an appropriately exuberant presentation for one of the band’s most playful detours.

Metal Jukebox reveals Helloween as enthusiastic students of rock history, connecting pop craft, progressive ambition and heavy-riff drama through their own unmistakable performance style. The adventurous song choices make it a revealing side road in the catalogue and an accessible bridge between classic rock and European metal.

This 2022 European BMG reissue is a limited-edition single LP pressed on red and orange splatter vinyl. Its distinctive colour treatment suits the album’s playful character and gives collectors a clearly differentiated edition. Eleven cover versions are sequenced across two sides, with the longer performances concentrated on Side B.

Bright metal guitars, emphatic drums and theatrical vocals recast classic songs with power-metal energy, while longer cuts retain progressive shifts and spacious passages.

Is Metal Jukebox an album of original Helloween songs? No. It is a covers album in which Helloween reinterpret eleven songs associated with a wide range of rock and pop artists. What colour is this vinyl edition? The supplied format identifies it as a limited-edition red and orange splatter LP. How many records are included? This release is a single LP, with seven tracks on Side A and four longer tracks on Side B.