“I'm Alive” by Helloween

"I'm Alive" sits on Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I, the German power metal band Helloween's second album, released in 1987, and it's a Kai Hansen song through and through: he wrote the words and the music. It also comes from the album that introduced singer Michael Kiske, who takes the lead here after Hansen gave up the mic, having struggled to sing and play guitar at the same time on the previous tour.

Hansen plays guitar, Markus Grosskopf bass and Ingo Schwichtenberg drums, and Tommy Newton produced, with Tommy Hansen co-producing and mixing. The album is widely held to have created European-style power metal, and Hansen dominated it, since Michael Weikath was too ill to play on much of it.

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