''7 Sinners'' is the thirteenth studio album by German

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, released in 2010. A video clip for " Are You Metal?" was released 31 October 2010. The whole album could be heard on

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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. Commenting on the album, bassist

Markus Grosskopf Markus Grosskopf (born 21 September 1965) is a German musician best known as the bass guitarist, backing vocalist and a founding member of the power metal band Helloween. Biography Grosskopf started playing bass at the age of 15 when he became ...

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Track listing

Personnel

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

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Michael Weikath Michael Ingo Joachim "Weiki" Weikath (born 7 August 1962) is a German musician, best known as a founding member and one of the guitarists of pioneering power metal band Helloween. Biography Weikath was born in Hamburg and was musical from a ...

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Sascha Gerstner Sascha Gerstner (born 2 April 1977) is a German musician who has been one of the guitarists and backing vocalists of power metal band Helloween since 2002. As of 2016, he is Helloween's second-longest tenured guitarist, surpassing his predecess ...

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'') – Drums 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" *

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