The Time of the Oath

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The Time of the Oath
The Time of the Oath cover
Studio album by Helloween
Released 1996
Recorded Chateau du Pape Hamburg, Germany 1995
Genre Power metal
Length 1:01:29 (w/o bonus tracks)
1:31:45 (w/ bonus tracks)
Label Castle Communicatioins
Producer Tommy Hansen
Professional reviews
Helloween chronology
Master of the Rings
(1994)		 The Time of the Oath
(1996)		 High Live
(1996)

The Time of the Oath is the seventh album by Helloween. The album is dedicated to the memory of former drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg, who committed suicide the previous year.

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[edit] Concept

The Time of the Oath is a concept album. It is, according to Andi Deris, based on the prophecies of Nostradamus, referring to the prophecies made for the years 1994 to 2000. Nostradamus' interpreters believe that he predicted a third World War followed by a millennium of peace if humans made the right choices. The album is meant to reflect the choices of humanity. The Keeper that appears on this album, having returned from the first two Keeper of the Seven Keys albums and later to return on the third, could represent God, or the stupidity of humanity in the form of the seventh trooper in the song "Before the War."[1] Instead of a space scene as on the cover of Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1, the area under the Keeper's hood is filled with stars and a line of golden rings, in the fashion of Master of the Rings. The track "The Time of the Oath" is reflecting the final of the book Faust Part Two, of the famous escritor Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Andi Deris has the part of the devil, reclaiming the soul of doctor Faust, whereas the chorus of Johann Sebastian Bach (Conductor Axel Bergstedt) is singing the Dies irae from the traditional requiem, representing the angels rescuing the lost soul.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "We Burn" (Deris) – 3:04
  2. "Steel Tormentor" (Weikath/Deris) – 5:40
  3. "Wake Up the Mountain" (Kusch/Deris) – 5:01
  4. "Power" (Weikath) – 3:28
  5. "Forever And One (Neverland)" (Deris) – 3:54
  6. "Before the War" (Deris) – 4:33
  7. "A Million to One" (Kusch/Deris) – 5:11
  8. "Anything My Mama Don't Like" (Deris/Kusch) – 3:46
  9. "Kings Will Be Kings" (Weikath) – 5:09
  10. "Mission Motherland" (Weikath/Helloween) – 9:00
  11. "If I Knew (Weikath)" – 5:30
  12. "The Time of the Oath" (Grapow/Deris) – 6:58

[edit] Expanded Edition

  1. "Still I Don't Know" (Deris/Grosskopf) – 4:13
  2. "Take It to the Limit" (Deris/Kusch) – 4:04
  3. "Electric Eye" (Tipton/Halford/Downing) – 4:06
  4. "Magnetic Fields" (Jarre) – 3:41
  5. "Rain" (Parfitt) – 4:33
  6. "Walk Your Way" (Grosskopf) – 4:56
  7. "Light in the Sky" (Deris) – 2:35
  8. "Time Goes By" (Deris) – 2:24

[edit] Credits

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Helloween
Andi Deris · Michael Weikath · Sascha Gerstner · Markus Grosskopf · Daniel Löble
Former members
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Videos
The Pumpkin Video · High Live · Hellish Videos · Live In 3 Continents
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