German power metal legends HELLOWEEN check in with the following update:

"The engine is slowly warming up - 7 Sinners will be released in almost exactly one month, on Halloween, as always. We recommend oil change, tire check and filling up the tank, because even before the album release end of October, there are plenty of heats to place yourself in pole-position.

Are You Metal?

Those fans, who attended the video shoot in Beelitz, will have a pretty good impression of how spectacular the clip to the first single 'Are You Metal?' is going to be. All the rest of you can look forward to the video premiere of the video on Friday, October 8th on MySpace. Meanwhile, find a snapshot (top-left).

Digital pit stop.

As of now, you can meet friends on Facebook - definitely worth checking out. You can come across Andi (Deris; vocals), Michael (Weikath; guitar), Markus (Großkopf; bass) , Sascha (Gerstner; guitar) and Dani (Löble; drums) live and in the flesh these days in Paris, Helsinki, Zurich or Berlin, where they are busy doing interviews for 7 Sinners. So, don’t be startled, if they suddenly pop up in front of you!

On Tour.

There won’t be a cold season in 2010 - Helloween will fire up the globe with a kick-ass tour, starting end of November – watch out the tour section... the Asian and South American dates will be scheduled soon!!"

Helloween are set to release their 13th studio album, 7 Sinners, on November 9th in North America via The End Records. Audio samples for all tracks on the album are now available at this location.

If there is a golden thread throughout the more than 25 years of Helloween's history, 13 studio albums, countless headliner tours around the globe and more than 5 million records sold, then it is their special kind of attitude: don't take yourself too seriously and simply live statements like: "just have fun with the shit you're doing." Maybe it is exactly this easiness that allows Helloween to be one of the most constant bands of the genre while simultaneously being the one band who dares to experiment more than their musical peers. While some copycats would rather stick with the same old patterns, Andi Deris, Michael Weikath, Sascha Gerstner, Markus Großkopf and Dani Löble aren't afraid of taking risks - and are rightfully rewarded with success.

7 Sinners is definitively one of the fastest and hardest albums in the Helloween's history and it bursts with vitality. That might partly be due to the versatility of the various songwriters within the band, who over time have become so homogenous, that the 13 songs formed a unity on their own in the studio , but it may also be due to the fact that the album was recorded completely without a click track, which, considering the extreme speed of the songs is an impressive feat. Especially drummer Löble, who proves that his technique is at a world-class-level. Following his excellent inner clock, bass and drums drive tracks like 'Are You Metal?', 'Long Live The King' and 'Who Is Mr. Madman?' to dizzying tempos. 7 Sinners with its typically strong melodies and the tangible joy of playing, is a true metal album whose range reaches astonishing dimensions.

It has become a cliche for metal band's to tout their newest opus as their "fastest" or "heaviest" album ever made, but in Helloween's case, 7 Sinners is truly a return to form and is indeed their fastest and heaviest release in years. Helloween bass player Markus Grosskopf stated about the band's new material: "For all those out there who found our special best-of [CD] Unarmed to be too smooth and calm, I have great news: The new album will hit you right in the face! It's gonna be very heavy and contain all [the classic] Helloween trademarks! Some songs are very powerful and hymnic, others contain the fastest bass-drum patterns our drummer Dani [Löble] ever played, and this means a lot!"

7 Sinners tracklisting:

'Where The Sinners Go'

'Are You Metal?'

'Who is Mr. Madman?''

'Raise The Noise'

'World Of Fantasy'

'Long Live The King'

'The Smile Of The Sun'

'You Stupid Mankind'

'If A Mountain Could Talk'

'The Sage, The Fool, The Sinner'

'My Sacrifice'

'Not Yet Today'

'Far In The Future'