For me an album with special place in my heart.One of the first
albums i bought when I started listening to metal.The best Helloween album.period.

As with a lot of Helloweens releases and special editions the bonus tracks are essential....I love this album!

I have the Japanese release of this album stickers and all. bought off ebay for 4 bucks. just didn't like it. art work is great though

Hey this aint bad

Fast and speedy pop music, speed pop something, not so good as previous one, it was so promising, now we drove again into the pop

Of the three Helloween releases after "Chameleon", I'd say "Better than Raw" is the band's most aggressive and straightforward. Sure, the musical direction mainly follows the same well-trodden path of "Master..." and "Time of the Oath", but there's something about this album that makes me simply want to bang my head with little disregard for any deviation into more melodic territory. That said, this album is less inconsistent than "Master..." but not quite as accessible as "Time of the Oath" in my opinion. Songs such as the epic 'Revelation' and 'Lavdate Dominium' are absolute belters, whereas there are evidently a few filler tracks to balance the awesomeness (namely 'Don't Spit On My Mind' and 'I Can'-these two I found to be the most lackluster). Such sidesteps from the usual Helloween delivery however haven't weighed my rating down any lower-"Better than Raw" is another great album from the band.

For me 1st Master Of The Rings, 2nd The Time Of The Oath and this one far 3rd.
Only one listen after a long time, but I think last track Midnight Sun was the best and even that one wasn't that good. I would rate this album 6.5.
I don't think I will listen to it again for a long time, only one more time to find a track or 2 that is at least somewhat good.

EDIT:
Found a few good tracks now:
03 - Falling Higher
06. Revelation
07. Time
10. Lavdate Dominvm
11. Midnight Sun

And first 1:18 I Can, too bad they couldn't came up with any better lyrics to replace those repeating I can'ts.

Another album i listened to today, after really long time. Forgot how good it was, even the Japanese bonus track is good.

Well done Helloween. Round of applause.

I've always loved this album but listening to it now a couple of times I think it's better than ever. If we exclude Lavdate Dominvm, which feels as a filler here, every song seems to get it right in every aspect. There's some more "convential" Helloween tracks, one huge atmospheric ballad (Time) and some agressive yet melodic songs (Push, Midnight Sun, Don't Spit on my Mind). The album never lets go and even the two leftout tracks (Back on the Ground and A Game We Shouldn't Play) is killer. This is probably my favourite Helloween full-length album, only beaten by their debut EP.. but that's a close call.

Not exactly stacked with huge hits, but a very solid, enjoyable and fine sounding album. Almost zero weak songs here for me and stand-out ones would be: "Revelation", "Hey Lord!", "Falling Higher" and "Time". I don't sure why, but I come back to this album much more often than to any other, just never get tired of it. It should be somewhere in the top 5 best Helloween albums!