7 Sinners
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7 Sinners is the thirteenth studio album by Helloween
, released October 31, 2010.
A video clip for "Are You Metal?
" was released 11 October 2010. Its visuals draw from the Saw movie franchise and play on clichés of the metal genre. The whole album could be heard on Myspace
a week before the physical release.
For the first time since 2000's The Dark Ride, each song on the album is a solo composition, i.e. each member has written both the music and lyrics to his song with no additional input from any other member.
Additional personnel:
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...
, released October 31, 2010.
A video clip for "Are You Metal?
Are You Metal?
Notes:# Only track 1 "Are You Metal?" is available on the digital single version.# The single version of "Raise the Noise" is shorter than the original album version and features a guitar solo instead of the flute solo version on the album.-Credits:...
" was released 11 October 2010. Its visuals draw from the Saw movie franchise and play on clichés of the metal genre. The whole album could be heard on Myspace
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
a week before the physical release.
For the first time since 2000's The Dark Ride, each song on the album is a solo composition, i.e. each member has written both the music and lyrics to his song with no additional input from any other member.
Track listing
Personnel
- Andi DerisAndi DerisAndreas "Andi" Deris is the vocalist and the main songwriter for power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of German melodic metal band Pink Cream 69...
– VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Michael WeikathMichael WeikathMichael Ingo Joachim Weikath is the guitarist of the German Power metal band Helloween."Weiki" was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is one of the Helloween founding members, along with the musicians Kai Hansen , Markus Grosskopf and Ingo Schwichtenberg . Along with Grosskopf he is the only other...
– GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Sascha GerstnerSascha GerstnerSascha Gerstner is a German musician and photographer, currently playing guitar in German Power Metal act Helloween.-Biography:...
– GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists... - Markus GrosskopfMarkus GrosskopfMarkus Großkopf, born 21 September 1965 in Hamburg, Germany, is the bass guitarist, and one of only two remaining original members of the German power metal band Helloween...
– BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... - Dani Löble – DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Additional personnel:
- Matthias Ulmer – Keyboards
- Eddy Wrapiprou – Keyboards
- Eberhard Hahn – Flute solo on "Raise the Noise"
- William "Billy" King and Olaf Senkbeil – Choirs
- Ron Deris – Additional backing vocals on "Far in the Future"
- Biff ByfordBiff ByfordPeter Rodney "Biff" Byford is an English rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon. Byford formed Son of a Bitch with guitarists Graham Oliver and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson and drummer Pete Gill in 1976...
– Spoken prologue to 'Who is Mr. Madman?' Also voiced the intro on their last studio album Gambling with the Devil. - Marcos Moura – Pumpkins Illustrations
Charts
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
Certification | Sales/ shipments |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Billboard Top 100 | 56 | - | |
| Czech Republic Albums Chart | 9 | Gold | 3.000+ |
| Greek Albums Chart | 13 | - | |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 16 | - | |
| Japanese Combined Albums Chart | 18 | - | |
| Japanese Western Albums Chart | 6 | - | |
| Russian Albums Chart | 22 | - | |
| Slovenian Albums Chart | 22 | - | |
| German Albums Chart | 25 | - | |
| Croatian Albums Chart | 26 | - | |
| Swiss Albums Chart | 38 | - | |
| Swedish Albums Chart | 40 | - | |
| Spanish Albums Chart | 51 | - | |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 57 | - | |
| French Albums Chart | 65 | - | |
| Italian Albums Chart | 78 | - | |
| US Heatseekers Albums Chart | 7 | - | |
| US Independent Albums Chart | 45 | - | |
| UK Rock Albums Chart | 21 | - |