Walls of Jericho is the debut full length studio album by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 power metal

Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...

 band Helloween

Helloween

Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...

, released in 1985 on LP and had an important development in the power metal giving some influences.
In 1988 Walls of Jericho was released on CD. Due to the enhanced capacity of the CD the Helloween

Helloween (album)

-Credits:*Kai Hansen – vocals, Guitar*Michael Weikath – Guitar*Markus Grosskopf – Bass*Ingo Schwichtenberg – drums-Facts:* Recorded January – February, 1985 at Musiclab Studio, Berlin, Germany* Produced by 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, on side one of several cassette copies of Walls of Jericho accidentally contained the music of Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

's To Mega Therion

To Mega Therion (album)

To Mega Therion is the second album by the Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost, released in October 1985. The cover artwork is a painting by H.R. Giger entitled Satan I...

 confusing many first-time Helloween listeners.

Original Track listing

Disc 1

Disc 1

Disc 2

• M - 1,2 also appears on the Treasure Chest
  Treasure Chest (Helloween album)
  -CD 2:-CD 3:-Credits:*Andi Deris - vocals *Michael Kiske - vocals...
  
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• M - 3,4 also appears on the Judas EP
  Judas (song)
  "Judas" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga, taken from her second studio album Born This Way . The song was released worldwide on April 15, 2011, four days ahead of its scheduled release, by Interscope Records. Written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Judas" is a dance song that...
  
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• M - 5,6 also appears on the Death Metal.
• M - 7 also appears on the Helloween
  Helloween
  Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...
  
   EP.

Credits

• Kai Hansen
  Kai Hansen
  Kai Michael Hansen is a power metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray, and the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween. He is a prominent figure in power metal, and has sold millions of albums worldwide...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Michael Weikath
  Michael Weikath
  Michael Ingo Joachim Weikath is the guitarist of the German Power metal band Helloween."Weiki" was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is one of the Helloween founding members, along with the musicians Kai Hansen , Markus Grosskopf and Ingo Schwichtenberg . Along with Grosskopf he is the only other...
  
   – guitar, cover concept
• Markus Grosskopf
  Markus Grosskopf
  Markus Großkopf, born 21 September 1965 in Hamburg, Germany, is the bass guitarist, and one of only two remaining original members of the German power metal band Helloween...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Ingo Schwichtenberg
  Ingo Schwichtenberg
  Ingo Schwichtenberg was one of the founding members of German power metal band Helloween and was famous for his high-energy drumming....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• James Hardaway – E-mu Emulator II

• Produced, engineered and mixed by Harris Johns
• Edda and Uwe Karczewski – cover design
• Peter Vahlefeld – layout, typography

Trivia

• The first five songs on the 2006 remastered Walls of Jericho are taken from the Helloween EP.
• The titular entity in the song "Gorgar" is the first talking pinball machine ever produced. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=1062
• The main theme of "In the Hall of the Mountain King
  In the Hall of the Mountain King
  In the Hall of the Mountain King is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg for the sixth scene of Act II in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, which premiered in Christiania on February 24, 1876....
  
  " is used in the song "Gorgar".
• The intro to Starlight is taken from a commercial in the movie "Halloween III".
• The live versions of Ride The Sky and Guardians are not live recordings; they are the same songs as found on Walls of Jericho but with crowd noise mixed in.
• Professional Wrestler Chris Jericho
  Chris Jericho
  Christopher Keith Irvine , better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an inactive Canadian-American professional wrestler, musician, songwriter, radio personality, television host, actor, author, and dancer...
  
  chose his ring name from this album.