Power Metal, Pop Metal, and Pumpkins United - Interview with Andi Deris of Helloween 

Though it's rarely mentioned, I think Andi deserves a ton of credit for this reunion. It takes incredible self-confidence to share the spotlight with another singer that many fans have always considered as Helloween's "voice." Great interview.

Amazing interview. Not only for Andi, but the questions were outstanding. Intelligent questions from a real fan!

That Ingo part in the Pumpkins United tour was so unexpectedly emotional, I would call it the biggest highlight in an event full of them. Also, don't you love it when you support people for decades and they never let you down? These guys do it right.

The interviewer dude is amazing, what a job! So cool when it's not only basic questions but he also can actually ask serious or tough questions and the musicians feels him as a reliable talk partner to whom to tell more than usual. Again, amazing job and so glad to see Andi ☺️

A message to Andi Deris. Their investment in the recoding of the album will be fruitful, because all the metal heads are gonna buy it. 🤘🏻🎃🤘🏻

Andi rules and thanks for this! It would be really great to hear more from Andi about his music and his songs from the band... I think Andi really does capture the "black and the white" of Helloween and metal so well and he really doesn't get enough praise for his ability to do this in his writing and as a frontman but this was really interesting. Thanks a lot.

Andi totally deserved his place in Helloween and it showed right after, but i would say it shows even when you hear how much of an humble guy he is

Such a great interview!

I would like to see all Andi Deris's solo albums on streaming sites like Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, etc.

What a pleasant and lovable guy! Looking forward to the album and the tour next year!!

Andi is one of the most selfawared artists that I know. He cares about people. Very modest and noble man. And he is my favorite singer. I would also to find Andi's red metal concert jacket.

This is the best interview with Andi Deris that I have ever listened to. I enjoyed it big time!!

Awesome! I would like to hear more interviews with Andy about his time in Pink Cream 69. Love that era

I didnt know this channel. Subbed immediately. This interview is so cool. Excelent questions asked to Andy. Thank you!

"The Dixie Chicks were right" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear Andi say.

Wow! Great interview!! Really!! Andi is just class act person!! Love to see him in interviews. Very interesting the topic about Roland, I never knew that and it’s a shame. Wonder what really happened with Uli… Can’t wait for the new album of Helloween!! 🤘🏼

I had tears on my face!! How beautiful, and, inspiring, to hear people being nice!! Despite the big talent!!

Andy Deris is such a great, humble and talented human being... I respect him even more after listening to him and who he is a person and musician .. Makes me love the band even more.. I love the New album with Kiske, Deris and Kai.. Their voices are a great match and they are all different and so talented musicians.. My respect for them all and the whole band.. I've been following this band from the beginning and this is a huge moment for all Helloween fans. I am living/loving the New album. Kiske and kai's comeback, Weikath! the songs are great. I totally feel identified with them and they have never dissapointed us.. Never! .

Without reading the comments I was already gonna write how great the interviewer is. Everyone's saying it in the commnets! Amazing job mate

Obrigado pela entrevista :)

Honestly one of the best Andi interviews I've seen! Really interesting subjects without treading all the familiar topics.

Love and deris and helloween, been listening to the new album all day 😎🤘❤🔥👏 thanks for this bro. Someone said it in the comments and I agree, you asked great question and also came at it as a fan(with that love)great job.

great job , thanks for the awesome interview. I wonder if i would have answered Where the Rain Grows as well, almost

Great interview!!! Very tasteful questions... not trying to bring up any scandal but letting Andi answer how he wants. Too many interviews want to dwell on bullshit topics... this was very well done! Excellent job!

I've been trying to understand the Roland Grapow situation since it happened and now at last it is revealed. On the other hand, this doesn't explain what happened with Uli Kusch

A great interview ❤️👍🙏

Amazing interview - loved all the questions! I hope you can interview Michael Weikath in this same style soon. Greetings from NYC 🤘🏼btw: any favorite song off the new album sampler you got?

Great interview of a massive metal legend! I’m sure there will be a helloween tour next year, otherwise the fans should start a helloween gofundme, I’d donate.

ahce unos dias vi una entrevista a Michael Kiske y descubri lo interesante de las cosas que contaba. Hoy veo esta hermosa charla con Andy Deris y me doy cuenta que realmente la banda esta pasando un enorme y genial momento de madurez en sus integrantes. Me encanto conocer lo que conto Andy. Sin dudas me siento privilegiado de ser contemporaneo a esta gran banda. Gracias por darnos estos momentos tan gratos. Por muchas mas entrevistas de este estilo. Un gran saludo

i always love andi since he was in Pink Cream 69.

So thats what King for 1000 years is about! I've been trying to find the meaning of this song for years.

Would love to hear you interview Michael Weikath too

Awesome interview, very good job.. Talking to eachother as if you lot know eachother for years haha. Great to see. Love love love Helloween, the new album and Andi

Fantastic 👏 🤘

Fantastic interview!

"If we can't tour in '22, it costs our neck." This sentence has been burned into my head ever since I heard it. As we get closer to the end of the year I am terrified Helloween is going to come to an end because they aren't being added to any festivals or tourdates being announced. Especially since the record is so goddamn good. I will never forgive Nuclear Blast if Helloween dies.

I love that he's just chill smoking his cigar :) haha

Very nice interview.. Andi is very smart, funny, talented, awesome frontman, perfect gentleman and great guy.. Met him couple of times and he was always very nice, in 2011 he even jumped from stage after the show and shook hand just with me because we shared stares and were showing things to each other for the whole show.. It was just an amazing experience... And he is very great and very smart guy to talk about everything, about life and I really admire his wisdom and how he looks at the problems in the world in general.. Thanks so much for great interview with him, hopefully this time in 2022 we all gonna see them live !!

Andi THE GREAT. I love you

Fantastic interview. I’m glad we finally know why Roland Grapow was let go. Also enjoyed Andi’s candidness concerning current events. My love and respect for him went up. Good job bro.

peazo puro! PD Gran entrevista

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It's good to know, after all these years, that Roland was a dick. Some people splitted between Helloween and Masterplan, but I stuck with the "old guys". Nice!

keeper 1 was pop metal, for the first time i hear this, and from the right mounth; it is the definition of Helloween´s essence

Andi is very nice guy!!!

metal Blast : that happened in the states back in the 60s John Lennon said that " the ebatles were bigger than Jesus !" but he said that in reference to the British teens...

His voice when he talks is totally different than when he sings.

I noticed there's cut in the interview..i was digging the part were you guys were talking about the covid and all that. Anyway you can upload that content?

Andi Derris : Where the rain grows Michael Kiske: Eagle fly free Kai Hansen: Ride the sky It is exactly the same like I think before Andi answered the last question 😁 Perfect song for perfect era... HELL🎃WEEN FOREVER

At 29:47 the interviewer mentions Metallica but I didn't catch what he was referring to, can someone tell me more about it?

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Buenísima entrevista.

Roland grapow was an amazing guitarist and song writer for helloween. I really wish they didn't have to fire him. But I completely understand why they did it. Even though michael weikath hated the dark ride and apologized for it, I don't think that's why roland and uli were let go. I do think through the hard times helloween went through, roland and uli were focused too much on their project band masterplan and what andi deris described roland betraying the band financially, He might have been stealing money from helloween to fund his project band. I don't know for sure if this is true or not, But it's just a strong theory that I have. If it is true I'd say shame on you roland and uli!

Que chato o que Grawpow fez... apesar de todo ocorrido, foi um grande músico e deu uma certa velocidade em músicas do HW, juntamento com o rápido e técnico ULI

na... 2021 is worse here for us in the caribbean .. 2020 was better - guess its the reverse here for us hahah... great interview by the way.. next time you interview any of the members, tell them they have fans in the caribbean lol.. be safe man!

Rory ❤️

19:43 your favorite band is correct

Most interviews I watch with this band are awful. The interviewers are almost always brain dead idiots. You aren’t. By far the best interview I have ever seen with this band. You gotta get some other members on here now.

a god for me .

Es ist nicht wirklich respektvoll in einem Interview im Zigarrenrauch zu verschwinden! Na ja, man lernt nie aus! Aber trotzdem, Andi, geiler Sänger, weiter so und hoffentlich bald wieder LIVE!

Never I would have sold this drumkit. I would have give it for the recordings but then get it back again

i cant stopping laughing he remembers me like a hotel owner or something, very goood lol If you tell me this guy sang Revelations or Push

I think Ingo's set was in Roland's studio for a couple of years. He actually did some masterplan recording on it as far as I know. It's the very first time I hear a helloween member speaking openly about the grapow split. In the last I only heard "roland betrayed us" from weiki and andi but never content behind this heavy word.

it looks like Andi Deris cried before the interview

🎃🎃🎃Future World 🎃🎃🎃

Eagle fly free is not so far from pop as Andi said)

40:00 paradoxically just who really deserves this fame says this that it was luck; thoso who do not deserve think they are really the best

Hmm, what is pop metal?

helloween is better than iron maiden

Great interview! Hope one day German bands will be ready to talk not only about american but also about Russian war crimes and terror that this country produces to neighbor countries.

You not only have to be skeptical about the media etc., you have to be skeptical about yourself. I remember an interview with Kiske, where he told that there are people who had near death experiences and that is somehow prove of a god. Now, because he's christian he isn't skeptical about those statements anymore. But you have to. Is god really the only explanation why people have those experiences ? Does the things people experience really exist outside of their minds ? ....... And, what annoys me every time is the term "mainstream media". What is mainstream media ? The media that doesn't go along with your opinion ? Is it impossible that the 'mainstream media' is right ? What foundation does the "non mainstream media" have ? Why do you want to believe them more ? .... I really wish, that people doesn't talk that much about things, that are far to complicated to discuss on an amateurish roundtable. That's why we have flatearthers. Flatearthers are actually people, that don't know what they are talking about, but do it anyway.... Just shut up.

And now it's clear roland is rotten pumpkin.. Shame on that

A smoking singer? That's odd

Andi try to balance lie and truth the wrong way.