Walls of Jericho

Helloween

1985

2.74

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Genres: Metal Styles: Heavy Metal

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Walls of Jericho is the debut studio album by German speed metal band Helloween, released in 1985 on LP by Noise Records. It is the band's only album featuring Kai Hansen as lead vocalist until 2021's Helloween, although he would continue to act as guitarist on the two following albums. In 1988, Walls of Jericho was released on CD. Due to the enhanced capacity of the CD, the Helloween EP/mini-LP and the song "Judas" from the Judas EP were added to the Walls of Jericho track listing; they are now released as a compilation. In the late 1980s, due to a manufacturing error, side one of several cassette copies of Walls of Jericho accidentally contained the music of Celtic Frost's To Mega Therion, confusing many first-time Helloween listeners.

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Jan 08 2026 Author

Yes, I really did give this 5 stars. Loved it!

Jan 14 2026 Author

Walls of Jericho is a good speed metal album by Helloween. The only one on which one of the guitarists does the lead vocals and these vocals are rather good. I guess he rightfully decided to choose the superior instrument

Jan 08 2026 Author

At first I thought the cover was terrible AI! But obviously it's not. This is stupid, gleeful fun though, just what you want from this kind of metal: not taking itself too seriously, but absolutely ridiculously technically proficient.

Jan 11 2026 Author

Surprised to see this. Not my favourite Helloween, but decent.

Jan 12 2026 Author

This was a good speedmetal album.

Jan 13 2026 Author

I don't hate it that much 2 Actually a really good album damn 4

Jan 26 2026 Author

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Walls of Jericho, Metal invaders

Jan 09 2026 Author

First impression in advance of any listening was a pretty dumb band name and pretty dumb cover art. Neither necessarily means all that much where metal is concerned, but the immediate intro with the cheesy horn rendition of London Bridges was further foreshadowing. And yeah this was pretty dumb. Amiable enough thrash with very basic lyrics (it doesn't get much more on the nose than chanting "heavy metal" over and over). The epitome of 3 stars down the middle. Which is not to say I disliked it.

Jan 10 2026 Author

Great to hear some speed metal here, nice quick little ripper of an LP (live tracks excluded). None of the melodies or riffs stayed with me past lunch but that's besides the point, this was an enjoyable jolt of energy after some snoozer albums the past few days.

Jan 11 2026 Author

Not really my thing, but Judas absolutely slaps.

Jan 12 2026 Author

Good fun metal

Jan 12 2026 Author

There is no way you can convince me that this isn’t one of the heavy metal parody bands that Strong Bad came up with in one of his emails

Jan 18 2026 Author

Some prime 80s heavy metal - the kind of thing Spinal Tap could cover. Entertaining!

Jan 19 2026 Author

These guys really wanted Ween’s attention huh

Jan 21 2026 Author

Cheesy dumb fun that's hard to hate, like most of power metal. Not really the biggest fan of the vocals or the weirdly thin production, but I enjoyed it. Made me feel good. Big fan of the big buff dog demon on the cover as well. I like how it was a contractual obligation for every 80s metal band to put some random bullshit like that on the album cover.

Jan 25 2026 Author

Daft name, daft album. Not rubbish, just a bit silly

Jan 28 2026 Author

Speed metal, power metal. Ni fu ni fa.

Jan 08 2026 Author

Enligt min arbetskollega så ska det här vara en klassiker. Kan nog förstå tänket men det här tilltalar mig inte alls.

Jan 11 2026 Author

Did not like this. The vocals are pretty bad. No wonder they brought in a new one for the next album.

Jan 12 2026 Author

Yesterday was not a good day to hit me metal nonsense

Jan 14 2026 Author

Music you put on your cassette player when you're 12 years old and angry at your parents and siblings. And outgrow by age 13.

Jan 14 2026 Author

So over compressed and over produced it sounds like a pop record. As heavy as a feather. Based off this, a waste of a damn cool name.

Jan 16 2026 Author

Relentless drums. I felt tied just listening to this. And it sounded like one long song for the most part.

Jan 22 2026 Author

Meh. I'd hoped for more.