7 Sinners

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7 Sinners
Helloween - 7 Sinners.jpg
Studio album by
Helloween
Released31 October 2010
Recorded2009-2010 at Mi Sueño Studio, Tenerife, Spain
Genre Power metal
Length58:04
62:19 (limited edition)
Label SPV/Steamhammer, Spinefarm Records (UK)
Producer Charlie Bauerfeind
Helloween chronology
Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary
(2009)		7 Sinners
(2010)		 Burning Sun
(2012)
Singles from 7 Sinners
  1. "Are You Metal?"
    Released: 11 October 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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BW&BK 7.5/10 [3]
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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 31 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. [5]

Contents

Commenting on the album, bassist Markus Grosskopf said: [6]

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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Where the Sinners Go" Andi Deris 3:36
2."Are You Metal?"Deris3:35
3."Who Is Mr. Madman?" Sascha Gerstner 5:43
4."Raise the Noise" Michael Weikath 5:07
5."World of Fantasy" Markus Grosskopf 5:15
6."Long Live the King"Deris4:13
7."The Smile of the Sun"Deris4:37
8."You Stupid Mankind"Gerstner4:04
9."If a Mountain Could Talk"Grosskopf6:44
10."The Sage, the Fool, the Sinner"Weikath4:00
11."My Sacrifice"Gerstner4:59
12."Not Yet Today"Deris1:11
13."Far in the Future"Deris7:42
Total length:58:04
Deluxe edition bonus track [7]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."I'm Free"Grosskopf4:10
Japanese bonus tracks [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."Faster We Fall"Grosskopf4:47
15."Aiming High" (download only)Grosskopf4:32
2020 remastered edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."I'm Free"Grosskopf4:10
15."Faster We Fall"Grosskopf4:47
16."Aiming High"Grosskopf4:32

Personnel

The booklet which accompanies the CD contains photos of band members : each one of them is in a position evoking the Seven Deadly Sins .

Additional personnel:

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 57
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 175
Croatian Albums Chart [11] 26
Czech Republic Albums Chart [12] 9
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [13] 16
French Albums (SNEP) [14] 65
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [15] 25
Greek Albums (IFPI) [16] 13
Italian Albums (FIMI) [17] 78
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [18] 18
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [19] 51
Slovenian Albums Chart [20] 22
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [21] 40
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [22] 38
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [23] 21
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [24] 7
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [25] 45

Certifications

Region Certification
Czech Republic [26] Gold

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