With this being the thirtieth year since the bands first ever E.P. Helloween are set to release their 14th studio album this summer. Beginning in 1985 with their self titled E.P. it has now been thirty years since the band began, commemorating their success as a band along with their thirtieth anniversary Helloween unleash My God Given Right. Recorded between October 2014 and February 2015 at the bands own studio, MiSueno Studio in Tenerife. Producer Charlie Bauerfeind returns to take on production duties, known for his work with Helloween along with fellow power metallers Blind Guardian and Hammerfall.

As ever the artwork for the new album remains within the Helloween style, motioning the bands audience to the future. The snow covered Statue Of Liberty could show an evolution, whilst the remaining frosted pumpkin heads ensure that the band have not gone completely out of the box. Inspired by The Day After Tomorrow Martin Hausler the graphics creator, wanted it to feel as though the world had been left to the pumpkinheads.

Martin Hausler states : We tried to built a world of ideas, keeping the “classical HELLOWEEN” elements, like the pumpkins on the one hand and a complete new look on the other, just like we did it the years before, working on a HELLOWEEN artwork.  A first inspiration came from the album title My God-Given Right and some of the song titles like ‘Swing Of A Fallen World’, ‘Lost In America’, ‘Battle´s Won’ etc. During my research I stumbled upon the Blockbuster “Day After Tomorrow” and the idea of just leaving the world to the “pumpkins” was born.

See for yourself what you think of the artwork, personally I like the fact that its slightly kitch, yet the band are aiming to look to the future, whilst of course commemorating their thirtieth anniversary.

Helloween’s fourteenth album My God Given Right is scheduled for a June 1st release via Nuclear Blast.