Helloween: "Metal Jukebox" - 25 Years On

"One of the interesting things about the recording of the album is that all of the music was recorded by each member separate from the others, in different studios around the world. I would think that was interesting because if it is a covers album, it must have been very difficult to organise how the band wanted each cover version to sound. I mean, you couldn’t just ask each member to go in and decide how they wanted to play each song, and then try and piece it all together! That would have been an impossible task. So there had to have been some conversation on the songs and the way they were going to do their ‘Helloween’ versions, in order to make it sound like they weren’t just playing a note for note version of each of the tracks, before they all went to their different locations and physically recorded each bit by themselves. I’d have thought that recording a covers album would have been a fun thing to do AS A BAND rather than singularly and apart".

On this episode we are going to talk about “Metal Jukebox” by Helloween, the band’s studio covers album released 25 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “don’t go wasting your emotions lay all your love on me” on Music from a Lifetime.