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Album
Chameleon is the fifth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1993. It is their most musically adventurous release, but also their least commercially successful, and is their last studio album to feature singer Michael Kiske until 2021's self-titled album, as well as their last with original drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg. It was Schwichtenberg's last album to be recorded during his lifetime. This was also the last album on EMI Records. The album contains four singles: "When the Sinner", "I Don't Wanna Cry No More", "Windmill", and "Step Out of Hell". The album was a failure both critically and commercially, and vocalist Michael Kiske and drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg were fired after the subsequent promotional tour. Michael Weikath stated that 'Chameleon' could have been better with a different approach but it was the result of what was there at the time and the intentions they had with it. The band were lambasted with debts of the amount of two million Deutschmarks, and were just trying to get rid of that and thought that if they made the album commercial it would work. "Step Out of Hell" was one of the older tracks Roland Grapow had done with his old band Rampage, which was released originally as a track called "Victims Of Rock". Grapow changed the lyrics and he remade it as a song with Helloween. The lyrics dealt with Ingo Schwichtenberg. Grapow's song "Music" was also recorded differently and blusier with other lyrics by Rampage. It's on the second
First Time
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When The Sinner
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I Don't Wanna Cry No More
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Crazy Cat
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Giants
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Windmill
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Revolution Now
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In The Night
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Music
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Step Out Of Hell
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I Believe
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Longing
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