7 Sinners

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7 Sinners
Helloween - 7 Sinners.jpg
Studio album by Helloween
Released 31 October 2010
Recorded 2009-2010 at Mi Sueño Studio, Tenerife, Spain
Genre Power metal
Length 58:04
62:19 (limited edition)
Label SPV/Steamhammer, Spinefarm Records (UK)
Producer Charlie Bauerfeind
Helloween chronology
Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary
(2009)Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary2009		 7 Sinners
(2010)		 Burning Sun
(2012)Burning Sun2012
Singles from 7 Sinners
  1. "Are You Metal?"
    Released: 11 October 2010

7 Sinners is the thirteenth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 2010. A video clip for "Are You Metal?" was released 11 October 2010. 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. 7 Sinners sold 1,900 copies in its first week of release in the U.S.[1]

Commenting on the album, bassist Markus Grosskopf said:[2]

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After Unarmed ]we were ready for some real stuff, you know without having discussed what we are going to do everybody had this will to do some very heavy stuff you know. And that's what came out of it [...] I call it my natural born album. The first two tracks we had were "Are You Metal?" and "Where the Sinners Go" and that was kind of the direction we loved so we kind of left it untouched just gave it a heavy sound and put the other songs around it.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Where the Sinners Go"   Deris 3:36
2. "Are You Metal?"   Deris 3:35
3. "Who is Mr. Madman?"   Gerstner 5:43
4. "Raise the Noise"   Weikath 5:07
5. "World of Fantasy"   Grosskopf 5:15
6. "Long Live the King"   Deris 4:13
7. "The Smile of the Sun"   Deris 4:37
8. "You Stupid Mankind"   Gerstner 4:04
9. "If a Mountain Could Talk"   Grosskopf 6:44
10. "The Sage, the Fool, the Sinner"   Weikath 4:00
11. "My Sacrifice"   Gerstner 4:59
12. "Not Yet Today"   Deris 1:11
13. "Far in the Future"   Deris 7:42
Deluxe edition bonus track[3]
No. Title Writer(s) Length
14. "I'm Free"   Grosskopf 4:10
Japanese bonus tracks[4]
No. Title Writer(s) Length
14. "Faster We Fall"   Grosskopf 4:47
15. "Aiming High" (download only) Grosskopf 4:32
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
BW&BK (7.5/10) [5]
Sputnikmusic 4/5 stars [6]
About.com 4/5 stars [7]
Allmusic.com 3/5 stars [8]

Personnel

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 Byford – 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[9]
European Billboard Top 100[10][not in citation given] 56 -
Czech Republic Albums Chart[11] 9 Gold 3.000+
Greek Albums Chart[12][not in citation given] 13 -
Finnish Albums Chart[13] 16 -
Japanese Combined Albums Chart[14] 18 -
Japanese Western Albums Chart [14][not in citation given] 6 -
Russian Albums Chart [15] 22 -
Slovenian Albums Chart [16][not in citation given] 22 -
German Albums Chart [17][not in citation given] 25 -
Croatian Albums Chart [18] 26 -
Swiss Albums Chart [19] 38 -
Swedish Albums Chart [20] 40 -
Spanish Albums Chart [21][22] 51 -
Austrian Albums Chart [23] 57 -
French Albums Chart [24] 65 -
Italian Albums Chart [25][26] 78 -
US Heatseekers Albums Chart [27] 7 -
US Independent Albums Chart [28] 45 -
UK Rock Albums Chart [29][not in citation given] 21 -

References

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  27. ↑ Helloween 7 Sinners Billboard.com, November 27, 2010
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