7 Sinners
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October 29, 2010 |
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| Label (s) | Sony Music | |||
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CD, LP |
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13 |
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running time |
58 min 4 s |
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Charlie Bauerfeind |
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7 Sinners is the 13th studio album by the band Helloween . It was released by Sony Music in 2010 .
Music genre
As announced in advance, the album was harder than its predecessor, although all the typical Helloween trademarks are still present. Stylistically it moves between Power Metal and Speed Metal .
meaning
Compared to the previous albums, the album was announced in advance as being very hard and fast. The single Are You Metal? released. A video was also shot that plays with various metal clichés.
The album was a huge hit for the band, chart positions are listed further down the page. The acceptance among fans and critics was almost entirely positive. Andreas Schöwe from the trade journal Metal Hammer gave the highest rating of 7 out of 7 points, the renowned online portal metal.de 9 out of 10.
After the album a world tour took place with the well-known Finnish power metal band Stratovarius and Pink Cream 69 from Germany , the former band of singer Andi Deris, as support.
For the first time since the album The Dark Ride , which was released in 2000, each piece is an original composition, which means that the text and music for each piece come from the same band member and there are no works by several members. Except for drummer Dani Löble, all band members took part in the songwriting on this album.
Track list
CD 1:
- Where the Sinners Go (Andi Deris) - 3:36
- Are you metal? (Andi Deris) - 3:35
- Who is Mr. Madman? (Sascha Gerstner) - 5:44
- Raise the Noise (Michael Weikath) - 5:07
- World of Fantasy (Markus Grosskopf) - 5:16
- Long Live The King (Andi Deris) - 4:13
- The Smile of the Sun (Andi Deris) - 4:37
- You Stupid Mankind (Sascha Gerstner) - 4:04
- If a Mountain Could Talk (Markus Grosskopf) - 6:44
- The Sage, the Fool, the Sinner (Michael Weikath) - 4:00
- My Sacrifice (Sascha Gerstner) - 4:59
- Not Yet Today (Andi Deris) - 1:12
- Far in the Future (Andi Deris) - 7:45
Single releases
- Are you metal?
Guest musician
- Keyboard : Matthias Ulmer
- Flute solo in Raise The Noise : Eberhard Hahn
- Backing vocals for Far In The Future : Ron Deris
- Choirs: William "Billy" King and Olaf Senkbeil
- Intro to Who is Mr. Madman? Biff Byford
production
- Photographs, design and cover artwork: Martin Häusler
- Pumpkin drawings in the booklet: Marcos Moura
Commercial win
The album was a huge commercial success for the band. It reached the charts in many European countries and performed significantly better than its predecessor. Also in Japan , which has always been one of the countries in which Helloween is successful, the company entered the top 20. In Germany , number 25 meant the best chart position in 12 years (1998 number 19 for Better Than Raw ). In the Czech Republic the album even achieved "Gold" status.
| Charts (2010) | Highest position |
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| German album charts | 25th |
| Swiss album charts | 38 |
| Austrian album charts | 57 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tape.tv/musikvideos/Helloween/Are-You-Metal
- ^ Andreas Schöwe: Helloween - 7 Sinners. Metal Hammer , November 26, 2010, accessed May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.metal.de/cdreviews.php4?was=review&id=15600
- ↑ Live Dates ( Memento from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Pink Cream 69: Support ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://hitparade.ch/album/Helloween/7-Sinners-143519
- ↑ http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Helloween&titel=7+Sinners&cat=a
