Interview from Snakepit Magazine, issue #4, 1998 and later reposted on the now defunct truemetalfan website.
THE FUTURE OF FEAR
All you metal freaks will have your fave band which you worship through thick and thin. OZZY, PRIEST, MAIDEN, MANOWAR, MOTORHEAD or cult names like ANGELWITCH, CIRITH UNGOL, HAWAII, HEAVY LOAD, WARLORD, JAG PANZER or EXCITER. I assume a lot of those names are in the hearts of almost every metal fan. When I made the arrangements for this next interview, I was really thrilled that I finally got the chance to chat with my personal faves...maybe. When, through the interaction of Molten Metal records (Thank you ever so much, guys!!!), I was asked to send my questions for an exclusive interview with HALLOWEEN from Detroit my heart skipped a beat (or two). I'd so many questions and I knew that these guys would take some time to answer them all. Well they did, but the result turned out great. I ended up with so much news and information, facts that I wasn't aware of at all. It made the waiting worth the while. Brian Thomas, the singer of HALLOWEEN, took the time to get me informed. Read all the facts about the album "Don't Metal With Evil", the "No One Gets Out" CD and the comeback CD "Victims Of The Night", on which they came up with some old unreleased tracks. I am glad that I wasn't tricked, because to me it felt like a treat to talk to these guys. Read on and you'll get to know the ins and out of my personal faves: HALLOWEEN.
Starting out under the name BITCH, the story goes that you changed your name into HALLOWEEN on Halloween night in '83. Accidentally or not?
Actually, when we first put our band together, Rick Craig (guitar) and myself (Brian Thomas on vocals) wanted to name the band HALLOWEEN. Our drummer at the time (Chuck Burns) didn't, because of another band from Detroit, SEDUCE. They were on the "Decline of Western Civilisation" (part two) movie and were signed to I.R.S. records for a little while (the album "Too much ain't enough" was released on IRS Metal in '88). SEDUCE had just written a song, called "Halloween". This was right around the holiday Halloween and that's what gave us our idea and apparently that's why they wrote the song. In fact, as irony will have it, the song "Halloween" written by SEDUCE, we covered on our "No one gets out!" CD. We did it, because they'd quit doing it, because of us (at least that's what I've heard). Anyway, we ended up using the name BITCH instead. This was the most hard name we could come up with for a group of guys that looked like girls. Unfortunately, at the same time that we came out, there was a group from Los Angeles called BITCH, that came on to the scene with a girl singer. After a year of playing around here as BITCH, we decided to change back to our original choice for a name. Chuck had left the band since and we had a new drummer, Bill Whyte. We changed the name to HALLOWEEN on Halloween night of 1983.
Was the material you played as BITCH similar to what you were doing after the name change?
The stage show was definately the same. We adapted the phrase "the heavy metal horror show", when we were still BITCH. Because we got together during Halloween time, we always decorated the stage, dressed up in our outfits and things like that. The songs were also the same, but we were doing more cover tunes with BITCH. We were doing songs of THE SCORPIONS, IRON MAIDEN, ACCEPT, DOKKEN and so on. Yet we were already writing in the same style as we developed into with HALLOWEEN. So the only thing that really changed was the name.
Who created the "heavy metal horror show"?
It all began, when I was in an earlier band, called MESMERIZED (which was just a small band that played around at schools and stuff like that in the Detroit area). Being the frontman, I always went on wearing top-hat, make up and high platform shoes. I introduced the band to pyrotechnics and we did a big stage show in that band. After that, I was in another group called ALCATRAZZ (not the same one with Yngwie Malmsteen and Graham Bonnet, but another local band). In that band I also wore make up, but I was the only band member that did it. The whole horror show thing kept developping with me over the years. Of course I was influenced by KISS, ALICE COOPER and DAVID BOWIE, but I wanted to do something that was more than just show. I wanted the music to stand out as well, which was why HALLOWEEN has always had a broad range of musical styles and songs. I wanted to be like the LED ZEPPELIN, that wore the make up and put on a show. Taking together a complete package: the music, the lyrics (what the song topics were about), the look and appearance of the band and the stage show. Something that people thought they would be getting their money's worth.
Please try to describe what the people got to see during the show and give us a view on this 'horrible' event.
Our horror show started out as a goof. Like I told you, we got together on Halloween time at the end of October 1982. Our bassplayer at that time had a ceramic skull which he'd gotten from Disneyworld at Florida and he wouldn't rehearse unless he had the skull sitting on top of his amp. So one night he'd forgotten to bring the skull with him to practise and he refused to play. We thought it was very odd and we goofed on it and we thought we'd just wasted a whole night. So the next time he came over for rehearsal, we'd decorated the entire rehearsal area with pumpkins, witches, goblins, spider webs and skulls - all kinds of stuff - just to goof on the guy. It ended up looking so cool, that we kept it up for rehearsal. Our actual show with HALLOWEEN started out with what I'd been doing in previous bands. We had an awesome lightshow, pyro, fog, the make up - you name it! For the song "The Wicked Witch" we had a girl dressed up like a witch and she'd come out on stage and do battle with the band members and during the guitar solo wrestle her broom away from her, hold it in the flames and chase her off the stage with fire. We had things where the bassplayer and I both spit blood during certain songs, like "Haunted". We had parts where I would shoot fire from my hands or throw fire balls. We had actors that we got from one of the local Universities, that would come out on stage dressed up like Zombies for the song "Busted". We had a Zombie dressed up like a police officer and he came out with handcuffs and a gun. He was trying to drag me off the stage and he was shooting at the other band members. We had it worked out, so you could actually see the gun firing. Right at the end of the song, when the stage goes black, he drags me off into a crypt, that we'd set up on stage. Our stage shows ranged from a cemetary with pillars and gates, head stones and trees with spider webs in them. There were also times where we've had absolutely nothing on stage and it was just the band members. We didn't alwasy use the horror show. The beauty of going with the name HALLOWEEN was, that we could be who ever we wanted to be. At Halloween time, kids would dress up like pirates one year and maybe a clown the next year. We kind of adopted that whole attitude towards the band: the freedom of being anybody we wanted to be at any show. We always kept the shows different. You'd never get the same show. We didn't want anybody to feel like they'd already seen it. Sometimes there were minor changes, but at other times we re-changed the whole stage set.
Why do you think HALLOWEEN became so popular with the fans?
At the time we came out, ALICE COOPER was no longer doing the make up and stage show and he'd moved on to the more new wave stuff. KISS wasn't wearing their make up anymore either. For once, I'd never expected that HALLOWEEN would become as popular as it did. I guess, everybody wants to relate to rock stardom or whatever. But that never really had much of an influence on me. I just did, what I enjoyed doing on stage. It felt right to get up there and put on a show, no matter what band I was in. I wanted to show the the younger kids the same kind of entertainment, that I'd grown up with. I wasn't tryin' to carry on what they'd done before me, but I wanted to keep that whole show thing alive. Nowadays, the kids can see KING DIAMOND or MARILYN MANSON. There's a zillion bands out there. When we did it, there was nobody else doing it. So it was different and unique and I think that's why we became so popular.
Before you released your killer masterpiece "Don't Metal With Evil", you put out a single, called "Trick Or Treat"/ "Teaser". Why did you print this as a very limited release (300 copies only) with no cover at all. I should say it's very unusual to try to get noticed by fans this way.
When we decided to put that out on a 7", the only thing we planned on doing, was to throw some of them out in the audience as a kind of a teaser. We wanted our fans to know that our album would be coming out soon. Also we sent some out to the local radio stations trying to get some airplay. They were just meant as a promotional tool and we figured that a three hundred copies would be more than enough. Then the plant where had them pressed went out of business, so we never had any others made. In fact, we didn't even use all the ones, we've had! Somewhere there's a couple of boxes with maybe a hundred of them floating around and we don't even know where they are. Maybe in somebody's garage or whatever. We tried to locate them, but without any luck!
After this you first released a tape version of your debut LP. Did it have the same cover and inside pictures as the LP version?
During the process of the art work and film for our debut album, the people that worked with us ran into all kinds of problems. So it took a long time to get the official release out. In the meantime, we were impatient and we were tired of not knowing what to say when fans asked us why it took us so long. So we printed up the covers on just regular poster board, cut them ourselves and hand-folded them. We went to a local tape reproduction place and we had a thousand copies of the album put on tape, a few months before the actual release came out. It had a different cover printed on an orange piece of paper with black print and it had a picture of the band in full make up on the front cover. It was something we tried to do, so that people wouldn't loose interest in us.
"Don't Metal With Evil" became a rarity, a real collectors item. On record fairs, people pay about $100 for it (if they can find it!). Now you're back together again, is there any chance you will re-release it or put it out on CD?
We made 3000 copies on actual vinyl and 7000 copies on cassette of "Don't metal with evil". Those are long gone. Our distributor at the time made sure they ended up around the world, but unfortunately we ended up making only 800$(US funds)of the entire 10.000 or 11.000 copies (if you wanna count the advance cassettes), that were sold. They've made it all around the world, but we never got paid for them. We've had a falling out with our manager, our distributor wouldn't pay us and went out of business and we never got our money. The only money that we've made from those albums came from an order that was never picked up from the tape plant and we sold those. The same goes for our merchandise (t-shirts and all that stuff). We never saw a dime from it. Other people made all that money! Now that we're back together, we have remixed "Don't metal with evil" and we do have plans to bring it out on CD as an official release. I don't know yet when it'll come out, but hopefully people that weren't able to get that first time around, will get it this time. I must say, we feel honoured that people pay so much money for us (100-200$ for an album) at record conventions (we don't think we're anything special) - it really blows our minds!
Is it true there's also a bootleg picture disc printed of "Don't Metal With Evil" and did you actually ever see it yourself?
As far as the picture disc is concerned - I've never seen it! I've heard rumours about it, though. The only thing I can come up with, people might be mistaken with the German HELLOWEEN and have seen that. But possibly there might be a bootleg out there somewhere, that I just haven't seen yet. However, we were on a bootleg disc of QUEENSRYCHE's, that they'd done on a live broadcast of Harpo's, here in Detroit. Geoff Tate mentioned us on their disc. I think that was a picture disc.
Which bands were your biggest influence that time? Some mags wrote you were a cross between MOTLEY CRUE and DOKKEN, but to my opinion, you were much much heavier and more Metal orientated.
That's hard to say. We've always loved LED ZEPPELIN, KISS and ALICE COOPER. My favourite band of all time is THE SCORPIONS. I've loved them since the beginning. When we were doing cover tunes, we played "He's a man, she's a woman" (our version "He's a woman, she's a man") and "Another piece of meat" of THE SCORPIONS. We used to open our show with the TWISTED SISTER cover "What you don't know...". We did "The Ripper" (JUDAS PRIEST), "Breaking the chains" (DOKKEN), "Love Child" (ACCEPT), "Live Wire" (MOTLEY CRUE) and many others. One time we played an entire LED ZEPPELIN set! People came out to see HALLOWEEN and they only got LED ZEPPELIN tunes. It went great! We begged, borrowed and stole from anything that was good!
What does the backward message on the song "Don't Metal With Evil" say?
Our message is easy to understand: "Don't metal with evil". You can't do that backwards on a CD player. Figure it out.
I have a copy of a promo videoclip of "Trick Or Treat". Did you shoot any more promo clips? On a Harpo's Detroit '85 audio tape, you mentioned "Justice For All" as a possible new video clip. Did you ever release that one?
We never did the video for "Justice for all". We intended to, but the people that were going to shoot the video went out of business. "Trick Or treat" was done by a local radio station here in Detroit, that no longer exists (WLLZ). They played it in one of their television shows 'The Beat' and about a year later we did "What A Nice Place". We've done various cable TV shows, like 'Soundtracks' and 'Rock To The Top'. We also did a video for the song "Nightmares" for 'Rock To The Top', as well as a live show. We've done several like that. Getting access to those things, you have to go through the cable companies that did them, which isn't easy. Even we had trouble getting access to our own video tapes.
You guys never had any luck with managers, didn't you?
Yeah, actually we've never had a proper manager. If you know anybody out there, that would be interested in managing a dedicated American heavy metal band with a ton of bad luck, let us know because we've been looking for a real manager for a long time. Warren Wyott, who managed SAIGON KICK and CRIMSON GLORY was the closest thing we had in the industry. Things didn't work out with us and him. We got along great, but he was too busy trying to get deals for CRIMSON GLORY and working with SAIGON KICK. We lived far away and he didn't have enough much time available to do the things that we needed to do, so we mutually and amicably parted ways with Warren. But since then, we never had a real manager to handle our business. It's hard to get people that deal with the band members. A lot of people don't wanna deal with the band members.
How did you get on the "L'amour Rocks" sampler with the song "Come And Get It" and did you write it especially for the album or was it left over from the "Don't metal With Evil" sessions?
We'd been playing at L'Amour in New York several times and we were very popular there. Somebody knew the person that was involved with the record label Mercinary Records and we ended up being one of the two bands (together with WRATHCHILD from Baltimore) that weren't from the NY area. It was just luck. The song "Come And Get It" was a left over from the "Victims Of The Night" session.
We know you for your great horror show and wonderful debut album. What I miss is a major breakthrough after this great start, so what went wrong?
Sure beats me! Maybe it's because we've never had a real management company, that was going to back for us. Also, we had to do everything on our own with limited funds. We got a lot of risistance from American record labels because of the similarity in the name HA(E)LLOWEEN. HELLOWEEN from Germany and us (HALLOWEEN) are both aware of eachother. We drew up contracts between us that we're both OK with eachothers names and that we would help to dispel any confusion amongst booking agents, but even with those factors, the American record labels just were stubborn about it. They wouldn't sign us unless we would change our name. We have too much involved and at stake in the name to do that. We built up a solid reputation, a large fan base and we now have three albums out. We never give up the name HALLOWEEN. Even if this means, we may never become nationally famous to keep our integrity and ideals intact, well, so be it. We'll see what happens in the future.
Do you see the "No one Gets Out" CD as an official album or as a bootleg release?
As far as I'm concerned, "No One Gets Out" is the album I'm most proud of. My writing had developed into a level, where we branched out to include not only the realm of the super natural, but also to politcs and world events. We covered topics like global warming and war and nuclear war, like in the song "If I Die, You Die". The lyrics stated the shape the world's in with everybody's killing eachother and nobody caring about the environment. At the time we wrote it, there weren't as many environmental programs as there are now and I just felt like who's gonna be left? A song like "Miss Eerie's Child" is about child abuse and neglect; "Crawl To The Altar" was about corruption and religion, which was written by some friends of ours; "The Death Of Love" dealing with divorce and the break up of relationships; the song "Halloween" (I refered to earlier, which was a SEDUCE song) that was just in the Halloween realm; "Detroit Rock City" - we did that as a tribute to our heroes KISS and the fact that Detroit is our home town; "The Thing That Creeps" is basically a spooky song about awareness. Those songs meant so much to me. We only pressed 2.000 copies of that - a 1.000 on CD and a 1.000 on cassette. Shortly after that, the band broke up and we ended up back with the original members, so that whole project kinda died. It needed to be mastered a little better. The mix was great, but when we send it to the plant for mastering, it didn't come out as powerful as we would have liked it to. At the same time we recorded "No One Gets Out", we became involved with John Oliva from SAVATAGE and we drove to New York to totally re-record that entire album. In fact, we have demo recordings of most of the stuff on "No One Gets Out", which was produced by John Oliva. After travelling back and forth between studios in New Jersey and New York, it just wasn't coming out right. At that time, John was just in the studio with SAVATAGE to record the "Streets" album, so there was a time factor involved. We decided to put out the original recordings, which we'd done at RT audio here on an eight track system and that's why the quality is not as good as we would have liked it to have been.
Is "A.B.F.S." on "No One Gets Out" played backwards and what does it mean?
"A.B.F.S" stands for thirty or fourty different things. Originally, we came up with "Another Backwards Fucking Song", because we seemed to have a thing with putting something backwards on our albums. Then it also stood for "About Fourty Seconds" as well as anything you could come up with. We had a list of it, but I don't have the list handy right now. It really didn't mean anything - it was just a goof.
It also says "to be continued.." in the inlay. Tell me more. Can we expect a second version or a continuation to this song?
After we recorded "A.B.F.S" and heard it played back, the riff was so awesome to that song (I'm not gonna give away what it is, but it's actually a segment from another song on "No One Gets Out"), we learned the riff and wrote a new song from the riff of "A.B.F.S". We called the song "Wake Up Screaming". Right now, Donnie is teaching it to Rick over the next couple of weeks and that's one of the songs, we will record on the new album.
What did you guys do in-between "No One Gets Out" and the '97 release of "Victims Of The Night"? I read something about a band called ABANDON?
In '93, HALLOWEEN officially played their last show. We did it on Devil's Night at Harpo's, where we played every year. At the end of the show, I took a gun and shot myself in the head and we had a blood pack wrecked up and I just felt to the ground. We had people come out to carry me off the stage and that was officially the end of HALLOWEEN. We eneded with a song called "The End", which was Rick Craig on piano and myself on vocals. It was the only time we ever played the song out - it was never recorded or anything. I quit using my stage name of Brian Thomas and started using my real name Tommy or just the nickname 'T'. After we played our last show with HALLOWEEN, I joined the band CRUCIFIED NATION. They were a local melodic rock band, but we made it a little heavier. We started doing stuff more similar to PANTERA, FIGHT, MEGADETH and METALLICA. I joined in October of '93 and George Neal, the bassplayer joined in March of '94, so the two of us were together again - writing and playing out. ABANDON was incredible. We had some awesome songs, that I'm hoping to pick up with HALLOWEEN one day. I wrote a song called "In Darkness" for the movie "The Crow", which we tried to submit for the soundtrack, but it never made it on the album (probably because we were an unsigned band). I'm hoping that HALLOWEEN will do it someday. We're still in touch with the guys from the band we're planning on releasing a CD with ABANDON stuff, that never made it out. We went into the studio shortly before that band broke up, so that HALLOWEEN could get back together. We did some really cool stuff with ABANDON - George and I.
Please report dead links!"Victims Of The Night" - the lost album - is out now on Molten Metal. How does it sell and how are the press reactions at this moment?
It's kind of hard to know what to think of an album, that was recorded eleven years ago, when you feel you weren't at your peak, you know. I think we're playing and singing a lot better now than we did back then, but we mixed it in '97 and it came out good. It's a fun album and it's a decent reflection of where we were in '86, when it was recorded. It feels good to have it finally out. I don't have the latest figures, but Molten Metal just ordered a second pressing of it. We've gotten favourable response from magazines over in Europe. Thank God for that - it's nice to get some recognition for the hard work that you've done!
Who came up with the idea of releasing these previously unreleased tracks on your comeback CD?
They were already recorded and in the can. All we had to do is to mix them and get them out. That album was supposed to come out already back in '87, but it just never happened because of financial problems.
Is the intro on "Victims Of The Night" your original intro tape?
The intro of "Victim Of The Night" was written for the song "Victims Of The Night" and we performed that in the studio and yes, we used that as an opening for our stage show several times.
Have you ever thought of releasing your "Vicious" demo tape on CD sometime? It would be a great idea to put those songs out as bonus tracks on another interesting "lost album": "Don't Metal With Evil-Live". Sounds great to me, don't you think so?
The "Vicious" demo was done at a point of time, when we had our guitar player Billy Gray and drummer Tommy Scott. Some of the stuff on it was more bluesy and not that heavy, although "The Thing That Creeps" was written at that time. The songs on that demo were: "I Confess", "Vicious Lies", "Black Skies", "Agony" and "Evil Nation" (5 songs). We can't find the original recordings to those songs - all we have is a cassette - so it will be hard to put them out as bonus tracks. But if we can ever track down the original recordings, I'd love to put some of those songs out! John Drenning, the guitar player from CRIMSON GLORY and Warren Wyatt set up a show for us on Halloween night 1988 and we recorded a live video and live album. We played all the songs from "Don't metal with evil" live in concert and recorded it to right to 42 track recording. I still have those tapes. They were never mixed, because shortly afterwards the original band broke up. But hopefully someday, we'll re-release that. There were bonus tracks on it as well. We did five other live songs that night, that we'll mix and if there's anything good, we'll probably put those out as well.
You did a comeback show as support to the Great Gonzo: TED NUGENT. How did this show go and which songs did you play?
We played a comeback show on Halloween night of '97 at a club in the Detroit area. The show was sponsered by a radio station called 'The Bear 1027' and they play classic rock. TED NUGENT is the morning radio personality on this station. We had made enquiries trying to get Ted to come out and jam with us, because he's known to do that in the Detroit area. The guys learned "Scream Dream", but unfortunately Ted wasn't able to do it.
You have a fanclub right now. What can the fans expect, when they subscribe to this and who's behind it?
Right now, we don't actually have an official fanclub. We've tried several times in the past to put a fanclub together, but for one reason or another, they weren't able to answer some of our fans or get the mail to us. I don't know where the lack of communication actually came in. In fact, we've heard horror stories from some fans that sent money orders to us for t-shirts or albums or what and they never got anything back. I apologize for that. The managers, we've had, were just local people and they really didn't know what was going on with the business. We've been chasing our tails since day one and it's amazing that we got the popularity we did. Thank God for the fans out there that fell in love with the group and supported us. Again, we'd like to apologize to anybody that never got any reply from the fanclub. But you can get in touch with us through Molten Metal, 32 N.E. 7th Avenue, Rochester, MN 55906, USA. Hopefully some time soon, we'll be able to get a fanclub up and running. We just need to find the right loyal fan to run it.
When can we expect a new HALLOWEEN CD and how will it sound? Hopefully, you guys didn't listen too much to the new alternative scene.
HALLOWEEN has like a hundred and fifty songs dating all the way back to when we started out and there's so much great music that we never recorded. On top of the fact, Donnie, Rick, George and myself - we all write music, so it's like the waterfall has never shut off for us to write new songs and come up with new ideas. At the moment, we're trying to put together a set of music for live shows, because obviously we're hoping to have a show booked for Halloween this year. So, hopefully in the summer of 1999, we'll have something brandnew ready to go, but don't blame me if there isn't.
Did the comeback of KISS with the original members and their stageshow contribute to your decision to reform HALLOWEEN in any way? After all, there's quite a lot of similarities between HALLOWEEN and KISS.
I won't say that it didn't have any influence on us, but the main thing that got us back together was Molten Metal, that has been persuading me for years and years. I got to know about places that bootlegged our album "Don't Metal With Evil" (in Italy) and we'd no idea. I guess we're really popular over in Indonesia, like Singapore and Malaysia and places like that. We put out "No One Gets Out" over there and it did really well. Just the fact, we found out people were still interested in us and over the years we still managed to stay together as friends, it seemed like the music scene was open once again. People like MARILYN MANSON coming out with it and doing the whole make up thing, the fact KING DIAMOND has stuck around and KISS came back, all those factors contributed to us saying "why are we wasting time sitting here and doing nothing, we could be out there doing what we did as well".
Here's a question you already expected, I guess. Is there any chance we'll ever get to see the Heavy Metal Horror Show in Europe?
We would love to! If anybody over there would be interested in bringing us over and helping us financially to get our show to Europe or get us on a tour with another band, we would love to come. Europe has supported us so much over the years. We feel like we owe it to our fans in Europe to come over and play there."
What's the difference between HALLOWEEN 1983 and the HALLOWEEN anno 1998?
I think, my vocals have come a long way from back in those days. Back then, we weren't getting any sleep, weren't hardly eating and some of us messed around or experimented with drugs (we never ever had any drugs problems, though). There were a ton of things going on. I was constantly worried about the stage show and getting the band up in time for a gig or whatever, than I was about my singing. And believe me, I have tapes of live shows to go back and reflect on how bad I think I was back then. But the fans loved it anyway. Now my singing has improved, we have all four original members plus Donnie Allen who played guitar on "No One Gets Out", so it's like we've opened up a whole new can of worms. We can do any song that HALLOWEEN has ever recorded or written. Rick Craig and Donnie Allen work so well together as a guitar team - they're as good as Michael Wilton and Chris DiGarmo of QUEENSRYCHE. They compliment eachother and their tone is awesome. Also, Bill Whyte is back and he's playing the drums like never before. This band is ready to do some awesome new material! It's just a matter of making time available from our daily grind and our day jobs to get back into the studio and record some of the songs that are already written as well as some that we've been working on. We have a new song, called "The Crush", that just does crush! I think fans really gonna like it.
What are your future plans with HALLOWEEN? Can you tell us anything about the next steps you're taking? For example, did you already write any new songs for your new CD?
(a huge sigh!!). We want to keep on recording and keep putting our music out. We want to be able to make our fans happy with our music. As long as we're putting out good music, we'll stay together and keep on doing that. We're trying to get the "Don't Metal With Evil" CD out officially and we're trying to get the funding to re-release "No One Gets Out" possibly with a bonus track. George and I are trying to get the ABANDON stuff out in some form and obviously right away, we'd like to write and record songs for a brandnew HALLOWEEN album.
Is there anything you'd like to say to your fans?
We love you and thank you for your support over the years! Thank you so much for being interested in HALLOWEEN!!! We can't wait to go into the new millennium and bring the HALLOWEEN of the future! Just a little hint about the working title we have for our new album. We want to call it: HALLOWEEN - "The Future Of Fear". We want to take the stage show and the appearance of the band into a futuristic dimension and bring the horror concept into that. Who knows down the road, it may change, but right now that's the working concept. Thanks again for your interest and see ya!
Well, thank you very much, Brian and Molten Metal, for getting this interview done and for the time you took to get us so much information on HALLOWEEN. I look forward to talking to you guys again really soon. Take care!!
Interview by: Toine van Poorten