Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.metal
Titolo: ancora sugli helloween...

official news from NB:
Former HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow stated in an interview conducted
with Cleveland's WBWC 88.3FM during the station's HELLOWEEN Radio Marathon
Live this past Thursday, August 23rd that he first learned of being ousted
from HELLOWEEN through a phone conversation with his wife while he was in
Los Angeles writing songs with producer Roy Z for an upcoming project.
According to the axeman, no band meetings took place prior to the
announcement that he and drummer Uli Kusch no longer members of HELLOWEEN,
and the pair were reportedly shocked by their dismissal from the group.
Consequently, their previously announced side project with SYMPHONY X
vocalist Russell Allen will be upgraded to a full-time band, which may
result in Allen being side-stepped in favor of a different vocalist, in
light of Russell's commitment to SYMPHONY X. Although no specific names were
mentioned (save for a hint of a possible Michael Kiske involvement that was
presumably delivered by Grapow in a joking manner), it appears fairly
certain the project's singer will be a German resident, so as to facilitate
the group's potentially hectic rehearsing and recording schedule over the
coming months.
HELLOWEEN mainman Michael Weikath also took to the airwaves during the same
show and delivered a slightly different version of events leading up to the
split with Grapow and Kusch. According to Weikath, tension between the pair
and the rest of the group started building around the time of the release of
the band's Time Of The Oath opus, with the bulk of the disagreements
stemming from differences in musical ideas and a lack of chemistry in the
songwriting department, particularly as it pertained to collaborative work.
Moreover, Grapow and Kusch's numerous side projects were said to be taking
away from the HELLOWEEN songwriting process and were beginning to jeopardize
the group's stability, leading Weikath and bassist Markus Großkopf to
conclude that ousting the duo was necessary for HELLOWEEN's long-term
future. Michael also revealed that he wasn't particularly fond of the
musical direction on the group's last studio offering, The Dark Ride, with
much of the material on the album being "too simplistic" for his tastes and
devoid of the complexity of older HELLOWEEN songs. With that in mind,
Weikath expressed his desire to continue with the traditional sound on the
group's next studio release, albeit with a more progressive and more modern
approach. As previously reported, HELLOWEEN already have some people in mind
as potential replacements and will NOT be holding auditions for a new
guitarist and drummer.
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Fabio
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 and the pair were reportedly shocked by their dismissal from the group.
SPERO non sia vero... :(
Mike

 > and the pair were reportedly shocked by their dismissal from the group.
io invece spero si incontrino e gli distruggano il viso a quel cazzone! che
ha gia distrutto I veri grandi HELLOWEEN!!!!