The past years have had a decisive effect on Helloween. A delimitation between the periods in their creative work can be easily made, but this has been done many times and is losing its sense lately, because the Germans’ new albums were surprising for everybody and it’s now harder to classify them. We’ve listened to the pumpkins’ experiments, we put up with the third part continuing their most popular couple of albums, we swallowed the line-up changes, and meanwhile “Gambling with the Devil” succeeded in surprising us. Helloween have obviously decided that it is normal to release hesitant albums and leave for a worldwide tour afterwards. This became a vicious practice and more and more people accept these new beginnings with boredom. So the expectations for this 2007 album were not high, but fearfully we find out that the release does not justify even them… In put it short, “Gambling with the Devil” is one of the most boring records that Helloween have ever created. The absence of ideas and the overexposure of known clichés are audible. The songs are charged with messages which hardly reach the listeners’ attention, and if this happens the impression is not positive. I won’t write in detail about every song, because there are very few valuable things in them. However, despite the overall disappointment, we may select one or two tracks with catchy melody and vocals, but unfortunately this is not enough. It’s a pity that the best years of these metal godfathers are irretrievably away, but it can’t be different with such albums. When the students become better then their teachers, it is high time for the latter to think seriously about their future works while trying to protect the small and unstained part of their fame.