HELLOWEEN MAKE IT FOURTEEN WITH 7 SINNERS IN TOW

German Melodic Speed Metal legends Helloween are set to release their fourteenth album on the 1st November 2010 via Spinefarm Records UK, this is a landmark for them since their formation in 1984, twenty six years ago. But more importantly this is the first time that the UK label and German band have worked together. ‘7 Sinners’ was produced by longstanding collaborator Charlie Bauerfeind which coincidentally has resulted in 13 tracks of pure mayhem and is seen to be the hardest and fastest in the band’s recording history but also one of the most relaxing to record.

Recorded at ‘Mi Sueno Studios’ in Tenerife (Canary Islands), with unapproved support from a  power cut that obliterated a whole range of gear failed to undermine the extremely positive mood – such a mood saw the musicians develop an album that, in the great Helloween tradition, does not show any negativity towards cracking a smile and giving its wings an impressively elongated stretch when the moment in time permits.

Unusually for a collection of songs delivered, in the main, at a gallop rather than a trot (not the horse movements!), Helloween (in specific drummer Loble) opted to record minus the ‘click track’, which in turn attibutes to a more organic feel overall, indeed including the classification of swagger so important to tracks like ‘Long Live The King’, ‘Where The Sinners Go’, ‘If A Mountain Could Talk’ and first single / music video ‘Are You Metal?’, released in the UK on October 11th.

Regarding the albums overall theme, well the title gives it away like a freebie, no brain power needed – they are referring to the seven deadly sins (dare they do this when the pope has left the UK!!!! – for the record Vatican City Metal does not exist and yet do we wait for the Pope to play lead guitars, the day will come, probably in the form of Christian Metal, but hey-ho) in all of their glory, with ‘Who Is Mr. Madman?’ (a Gerstner composition with Saxon stalwart Biff Byford on the spoken introduction) performing as the perfect successor to ‘Perfect Gentleman’ from 1994’s ‘Master Of The Rings’ album.

Guitarist Andy Deris gives his utmost opinion on ‘7 Sinners’:

“I love Metal. I listen to a lot of music, new stuff too. Why shouldn’t I develop my songwriting with sounds that I have just fallen in love with?” 

In Support of ‘7 Sinners’ , Helloween will be playing at the following UK shows

4th December – Hard Rock Hell, Prestatyn
5th December – HMV Forum, London

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