Hellfire Club (album)
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| Studio album by Edguy | ||||
| Released | April 6, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | Rohen Studios, Fulda, Vox Clangstudio, Hamburg, Gate Studio, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2004 |
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| Genre | Heavy metal, progressive metal, power metal, symphonic metal | |||
| Length | 61:07 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Edguy | |||
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| Metal Storm | (10/10) |
| Metal Hammer (GER) |   |
Hellfire Club, released April 6, 2004, is the sixth album by German power metal band Edguy. The music of the band is supported by a German orchestra, the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.
In contrast to their previous albums, Hellfire Club owes more to the sound of Iron Maiden than their biggest influence Helloween, both in vocals and in music. The first track "Mysteria" opens with the introduction "Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome - to the Freak Show!", followed by a guitar riff that is unusually dark and heavy for Edguy's standards and is very similar to some Judas Priest riffs. The rest of the album generally follows this scheme, with a few exceptions:
The bonus track "Children of Steel", originally an early demo, was re-recorded for this album. The bonus track version of "Mysteria" features Mille Petrozza of the German thrash metal band Kreator on lead vocals.
All lyrics by Tobias Sammet. All music by Sammet except where noted.
A special bonus disc containing 13 additional tracks was also released with the album in Hong Kong. Among its tracks are all the tracks from the King of Fools EP (other than "King of Fools" itself, which is on disc 1), the 2 bonus tracks mentioned above, an alternative version of "Falling Down" and 5 live tracks, including one by Tobias Sammet's side project Avantasia: "Inside".
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