HELLOWEEN report:

"The secret around the new, surprising song-arrangements on the brand new Helloween CD, Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary, has been uncovered. Andi Deris, Michael Weikath and Markus Grosskopf are giving away how the songs got their new arrangements and also how some of the original versions happened. Please click right here.

For more information and a couple of small, semi-acoustical video-live-recordings – please watch this space!"

The End Records, under exclusive license from Sony Music Entertainment Germany, has announced the North American release of Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary, out March 30th.

Helloween, one of the most eminent melodic metal bands worldwide and - along with the SCORPIONS and ACCEPT - Germany’s ultimate metal export, got their start exactly 25 years ago. A total of eleven headlining world tours took the band all over the globe, and their sensational show at the Monsters Of Rock in Castle Donington in front of more than 100,000 metalheads.

Spectacular tours alongside IRON MAIDEN, DIO and OZZY OSBOURNE, as well as their MTV Headbangers Ball US tour with ANTHRAX and EXODUS remain unforgotten.

Helloween have sold more than five million records and garnered 14 gold and 6 platinum awards globally, receiving two gold records in Germany. Now Andi Deris (vocals), Michael Weikath (guitar), Sascha Gerstner (guitar), Markus Großkopf (bass) and Daniel Löble (drums) have set out to prove that their great anthems ooze that special Helloween flair even with totally new arrangements.

Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary is Helloween’s ‘thank-you’ to millions of fans old and new and will prove their exceptional position on the international metal scene. Instead of putting together a regular greatest hits compilation featuring their most successful tracks to celebrate this anniversary, the five band members completely rearranged the greatest melodies they had written in the course of their career to date.

The album features Supercharge’s exceptional saxophonist Albie Donnelly, Hellsongs’s vocalist Harriet Ohlsson, pianist Matthias Ulmer, plus the 70-piece Prague Symphonic Orchestra and the choirs of the Gregorian singers!

As a special surprise, Helloween have come up with ‘The Keeper's Trilogy’ a stunning 17-minute medley of the songs ‘Halloween’, ‘Keeper Of The Seven Keys’ and ‘The King For A 1000 Years’, recorded in cooperation with the Prague Symphonic Orchestra and likely to send shivers of delight down the spine of every Helloween fan.

Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary sees Helloween commemorate their 25th anniversary in their very own way.

“We aren’t one of those bands who like to celebrate themselves,” says Weikath. “We wanted to say thank you in a special way to all our fans who have followed us through the past 25 years - to us, this album stands for an official celebration. We had a lot of fun recording our most important tracks in an entirely new ‘outfit’ and with new arrangements. Now we can’t wait to find out how our fans will react.”

Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary tracklisting:

'Dr. Stein'

'Future World'

'If I Could Fly'

'Where The Rain Grows'

'The Keeper's Trilogy'

'Eagle Fly Free'

'Perfect Gentleman'

'Forever & One'

'I Want Out'

'Falling To Pieces'

'A Tale That Wasn't Right'