The Time of the Oath

Occupation

• Vocals: Andi Deris
• Guitar: Michael Weikath
• Guitar: Roland Grapow
• Drums: Uli Kusch

The Time of the Oath is the seventh studio album by the German metal band Helloween. It appeared in 1996 at Castle Communications.

Creation and publication

After fresh start in 1994 with Master of the Rings, the band occupation remained stable. Already in 1995 a new album was recorded. All band members have contributed compositions at, Jørn Ellerbrock and Tommy Hansen played a the keyboards, the latter also served as producer. The Time of the Oath appeared on 29 February 1996 and was the former drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg dedicated, who had committed suicide a year.

Title list

Style

Stylistically, the album builds on its predecessor. So Helloween play power metal with catchy choruses and riffs as well as many melodic guitar solos. There are mainly fast and hard pieces, but also catchy pieces medium tempo and two ballads. The Time of the Oath is a concept album about the prophecies of Nostradamus.

Reception

The album was recorded mostly positive from the press. Although Jan Michael Dix from Rock Hard criticized Andi Deris ' vocal style, which does not always fit with the music, as well as he could "hardly escape the impression that the band is not determined enough exhausts its possibilities." Yet he praises the modern sound, the original structures and maintains The Time of the Oath for " quite a very good album ". Marcel Rapp also mentioned on powermetal.de " the great voice of Andi Deris, which is mid-tempo songs such as created while in high-speed firecrackers [ ... ] but has significant weaknesses, although the songs are amazing in itself. " It was a total " a plate with good songwriting, catchy riffs and catchy songs compatible ".