Carl-André Beckston, designer of MICHAEL KISKE's (ex-HELLOWEEN) last album (Kiske - pictured) and PLACE VENDOME (the project with PINK CREAM 69 members Dennis Ward, Uwe Reitenauer, Kosta Zafiriou and VANDEN PLAS' Gunther Werno), has opened a webshop where you can buy prints of his artwork in various sizes. Beckston's gallery can be viewed here. Beckston is currently working on Kiske's new album cover and booklet art.

As reported late last year, Kiske will rearrange and re-record all of the songs that he wrote with his old band Helloween for an upcoming CD which will be released later this year through Frontiers Records. This is the tracklisting for the new album: 'We Got The Right', 'A Little Time', 'Kids Of The Century', 'Goin' Home', 'You Always Walk Alone', 'When The Sinner', 'I Believe', 'Longing', 'In The Night', 'Your Turn' plus a new song.

In more recent news, MASTERPLAN guitarist Roland Grapow (ex-Helloween) revealed that a project with guitarist Kai Hansen (ex-Helloween, GAMMA RAY) and Kiske is in the works.

Speaking to Spain's LaEstadea.com, Grapow commented: "We’re just waiting for the right moment. We gathered together two or three times in the last two years. What happens is that Michael doesn’t want to do anything with too much hard rock or too much heavy metal, too much dark or negative, he wants to do something more happier. At the moment we haven't thought of any (band) names because we haven’t planned yet. Now we only want to write a few songs which we feel comfortable with, that Michael doesn’t find negative, but we all love. Because we don't want to make a Kiske solo album with two famous guitarists from the past. We search for music which speaks for itself without any need to be aggressive or negative."