JÄY Metal slave
Posts: 1540 From: USA  |
29.11.2010 - 20:29Rating: 10
JÄYMetal slavePosts: 1540 From: USA 
Get ahold of the remaster before you vote... such a big difference!
Loading...
|
Angelic Storm Melodious
Posts: 6675 From: UK  |
30.11.2010 - 01:06Rating: 10
What can I say? This is one of the all time classic metal albums! Genre defining, and stuffed with timeless tunes. xD
Helloween could have split up after this one album, and they'd have still left an awesome legacy. \m/
Loading...
|
Cryzpin
Posts: 113 From: Czech Republic  |
12.08.2011 - 13:10Rating: 10
CryzpinPosts: 113 From: Czech Republic 
From my point of view this is the maghtiest power metal album ever - so vital, so sharp, so straight!
Loading...
|
JÄY Metal slave
Posts: 1540 From: USA  |
19.11.2011 - 05:15Rating: 10
JÄYMetal slavePosts: 1540 From: USA 
Goooorrrrrgaarr will eat me BUT I KEEP ON PLAAAAYYYIN!!
Loading...
|
Angelic Storm Melodious
Posts: 6675 From: UK  |
19.11.2011 - 07:12Rating: 10
Written by JÄY on 19.11.2011 at 05:15
Goooorrrrrgaarr will eat me BUT I KEEP ON PLAAAAYYYIN!!
"TILT!" hehe
Loading...
|
Korah
Posts: 348 From: France  |
KorahPosts: 348 From: France 
Good album but the song is too bad!
----
Don't cry for my English
Loading...
|
musicalkaratekid
Posts: 1504 From: UK
|
14.04.2012 - 19:00Rating: 8
This is an absolute stormer of a debut. The vocals, upon the first few listens, did annoy me if being honest. Yet I've since come to understand that, maybe they work well with the thrashy, raw instrumentation here and maybe a cleaner, less nasally vocal style wouldn't do the musicianship as much justice. The riffs are second to none, and the way they swerve in and out of supreme songs such as the anthemic 'Ride the sky', riotous semi-ballad 'victim of fate' and just plain funny 'Gorgar' is very well-balanced. In fact, the only instrument that bugs me is the bass, and that doesn't really bother me, just that it isn't that high in the mix. If I'm honest, this is just as solid an introduction to Helloween-or indeed European power metal-as Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys" records (the first two). May I once again state that 'Ride the Sky' is an absolute belter, definitely one of Helloween's classic cuts.
Loading...
|
ThunderAxe1989 Account deleted |
ThunderAxe1989 Account deleted
This album is a classic! Great to drink to as well 
This album stands out from their other releases because it's the only pure "speed metal" helloween release. I love it. They weren't worth shit after Kai Hansen left IMO.
Loading...
|
Tyrannical Hero Classless
Posts: 3380  |
Best speed/thrash album i ever heard
----
Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
Loading...
|
gnirpz
Posts: 53 From: Canada
|
03.09.2013 - 19:07Rating: 9
My girlfriend bought me the original release in vinyl of Wall Of Jericho, the 1985 press by Banzai record... I will marry her...
Loading...
|
Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck
Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands  |
Written by gnirpz on 03.09.2013 at 19:07
My girlfriend bought me the original release in vinyl of Wall Of Jericho, the 1985 press by Banzai record... I will marry her...
the Original press is on Noise Records. The Banzai one was for the Canadian market
----
Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
Loading...
|
gnirpz
Posts: 53 From: Canada
|
04.09.2013 - 01:07Rating: 9
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.09.2013 at 19:16
Written by gnirpz on 03.09.2013 at 19:07
My girlfriend bought me the original release in vinyl of Wall Of Jericho, the 1985 press by Banzai record... I will marry her...
the Original press is on Noise Records. The Banzai one was for the Canadian market 
Yeah, I just read that! Your right, but It still a 29 years old shit! Should I marry her in this case?
Hahaha!
Loading...
|
Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck
Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands  |
Written by gnirpz on 04.09.2013 at 01:07
Yeah, I just read that! Your right, but It still a 29 years old shit! Should I marry her in this case?
Hahaha!
Well, here it is next to impossible to find the Banzai pressing of that album, so...
----
Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
Loading...
|
LuciferOfGayness Account deleted |
LuciferOfGayness Account deleted
 So good, love this.
The rawer vocals and the trashy drums makes this my favourite Helloween album.
Despite the fact that there is a heavy inflation in power-metal I am having a hard to find something thats similar to WoJ. Any suggestions guys?
Loading...
|
Bad English Tage Westerlund
Posts: 52710 From: Norway  |
Album what title makes to check it if you like history, those days I net and google did not existed, so just books and knowledge was way t fin out what were Walls of jeriho
Musically its awesome, even a bit rough quality as many that time begginers started whit, better as demo but still low budget work, and I like it I lioke such sound
Fast, heavy album, same as EP, it was maybe best what this band did , Keepers as I recall also are OK, then whole 90's was crap, up to last 3 albums
----
Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!
Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
Loading...
|
Jope of Steele
Posts: 2248 From: Finland  |
31.07.2019 - 13:31Rating: 8
I used to think that those Helloween EP songs were part of the original Walls of Jericho. As it is, they aren't, so I'm commenting here on the 9 original WoJ songs, and not the remaster/later release editions.
That being said the album doesn't look so strong a release anymore. The opener surely is strong, but how are Reptile and Guardians? Not really classic material. Then Phantoms Of Death is one of my WoJ favourites. Metal Invaders and Gorgar are alright, but nothing special. HMitL and How Many Tears do redeem the album a bit, but I can't state that all the songs offered here in their entirety make the album highly satisfactory. The album's production asks for improvement. I really enjoy hearing the instruments on this album. Hats off to everyone who played on this album, they clearly were masters in what they were doing already in 1985. As for Kai's vocals: not his best work, but not bad either.
So to be honest I can't consider Walls of Jericho a super great album anymore, like I once did. I suppose releasing something like this in '85 was an important act and the album's influence on the upcoming speed/thrash bands cannot be denied. But when being honest here: the better songs went to the Helloween EP.
----
The Plannedemic by Hibbeler Productions: https://odysee.com/The-Plannedemic---2020-Documentary-1:7
Loading...
|
Bad English Tage Westerlund
Posts: 52710 From: Norway  |
Written by Jope of Steele on 31.07.2019 at 13:31
I used to think that those Helloween EP songs were part of the original Walls of Jericho. As it is, they aren't, so I'm commenting here on the 9 original WoJ songs, and not the remaster/later release editions.
That being said the album doesn't look so strong a release anymore. T
Because its bad quallity, not best studio, all that time bands had same mono sound, (somehow I miss it) but same time todfay we have way to much metal, sad that true metal as this nobody cares, but still if we think in those days how many good metal bands they had? did they had i net and streaming platforms?
----
Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!
Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
Loading...
|
Jope of Steele
Posts: 2248 From: Finland  |
06.11.2019 - 22:03Rating: 8
Written by Bad English on 05.11.2019 at 11:35
Because its bad quallity, not best studio, all that time bands had same mono sound, (somehow I miss it)...
Yet there are plenty of metal albums with great sounding audio from 1985 and earlier. Then we have Walls of Jericho and for instance Running Wild's debut with shite for an audio... Germany, Berlin mustn't have been the best place for recording some heavy metal in the early 80s
----
The Plannedemic by Hibbeler Productions: https://odysee.com/The-Plannedemic---2020-Documentary-1:7
Loading...
|
Bad English Tage Westerlund
Posts: 52710 From: Norway  |
Written by Jope of Steele on 06.11.2019 at 22:03
Written by Bad English on 05.11.2019 at 11:35
Because its bad quallity, not best studio, all that time bands had same mono sound, (somehow I miss it)...
Yet there are plenty of metal albums with great sounding audio from 1985 and earlier. Then we have Walls of Jericho and for instance Running Wild's debut with shite for an audio... Germany, Berlin mustn't have been the best place for recording some heavy metal in the early 80s
New bands whit out money, How sounds moder bands whit poor budget and big label bands
----
Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!
Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
Loading...
|
Tyrannical Hero Classless
Posts: 3380  |
Their true and authentic classic. Unmatchable.
----
Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
Loading...
|
Metal Rambo
Posts: 405 From: Finland  |
06.03.2020 - 16:42Rating: 10
One can only wonder what it must have felt like back in the 1985 when people listened to this massive eruption of pure metal assault for the first time. Since it still kicks ass like a wild stallion, I would think the reaction must have been an epidemic of heads exploding from the sheer power and the glory Jericho delivers from the very first second of the very first track. If this isn't essential metal classic then what is?
----
You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like.
Loading...
|
Redel
Posts: 738 From: Germany  |
27.09.2020 - 23:20Rating: 8
RedelPosts: 738 From: Germany 
Classic
Loading...
|