"Future World" is a song and a single made by German
power metal
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band
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band founded in 1984 in Hamburg by members of bands Iron Fist, Gentry, Second Hell and Powerfool. The band has at times been called one of the most influential European heavy metal bands of the 1980s. Its first ...
, from the album ''
Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I''.
It is performed frequently by Helloween and
Gamma Ray
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at their concerts.
The single cover is a homage to the comic book anti-hero
Judge Dredd
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.
Single track listing
Personnel
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Michael Kiske
Michael Kiske (born 24 January 1968) is a German singer who is the co-lead vocalist for the power metal band Helloween. Kiske has also released four solo albums, two albums with the hard rock band Unisonic (band), Unisonic, has participated on ...
- vocals
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Kai Hansen
Kai Michael Hansen (born 17 January 1963) is a German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray (band), Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of another power metal band Helloween, which he was ...
- lead and rhythm guitars
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Michael Weikath
Michael Ingo Joachim "Weiki" Weikath (born 7 August 1962) is a German musician, best known as a founding member and one of the guitarists of pioneering power metal band Helloween.
Biography
Weikath was born in Hamburg and was musical from a ...
- lead and rhythm guitars
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Markus Grosskopf
Markus Grosskopf (born 21 September 1965) is a German musician best known as the bass guitarist, backing vocalist and a founding member of the power metal band Helloween.
Biography
Grosskopf started playing bass at the age of 15 when he became ...
- bass guitar
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Ingo Schwichtenberg
Ingo "Mr. Smile" Schwichtenberg (18 May 1965 – 8 March 1995) was a German drummer and one of the founding members of the power metal band Helloween.
Biography
Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow said about Schwichtenberg in an interview 1999: ...
- drums
References
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1987 singles
Helloween songs
Songs written by Kai Hansen
1987 songs