Video message: First drum tracks recorded

short message out of MiSueno Studios:

THE PUMPKINS STARTED STUDIO PRODUCTION!!

After the major “7 Sinners” world tour and a well deserved break the boys have just entered the studio to work on their new studio album.

The new production will again be helmed by long-term producer Charlie Bauerfeind and will of course contain all the trademarks. Already in this early stage the new effort promises to be much more than a fine follow-up to the highly acclaimed “Gambling With The Devil”- and “7 Sinners”-albums. Bombastic epic pieces have been worked on as well as ultrafast heavy songs and mid-tempo anthems.

Says guitarist Michael Weikath: “Right now we are busy with finalizing the songwriting process and are getting ready to take the accumulated ideas into a final selection for the new record. Everybody in the band is excited and eager to take what we have worked on so far to the next level.

The recordings for the „7 Sinners”-follow-up will be running until the end of 2012 with a release being looked at in the beginning of 2013.

Watch out for news and reports from the studio as the HELLOWEEN-machine is on a roll again....

PAISTE ARTIST SIGNINGS & PERFORMANCES AT FRANKFURT MUSIKMESSE 2012

The line-up for this year’s Musikmesse Paiste Signing Sessions still keeps expanding... The following dates are your chance to meet & chat with some of your favorite drummers.

Dani will going to be around on Saturday, 24.3. at 15.00 at Paiste´s Booth and at 11.00 for Pearl- Drums at Pearl´s Booth !!

Confirmed as of February, 29th:

SIGNING

Friday, 23.03. – 12.00
Friday, 23.03. – 14.00
Saturday, 24.03. – 12.00
Saturday, 24.03. – 15.00

Nicko McBrain
Paul Stanley McKenzie
Curt Bisquera
Felix Bohnke
Mickey Dee
Drumbassadors
Mel Gaynor
Nigel Glockler
Sir G.
Bernd Herrmann
Inferno
Dani Loeble
Stefan Schwarzmann
Brian Tichy

Helloween on EMP rockinvasion TV!

This coming Friday night, Sept.30th to Oct.1st, at 00.15 a.m., you can check out the pumpkins on german television station DMAX
as they´re visiting a liquor manufactury at the Masters of Rock Festival in Vizovice, Czech Republic.

Don´t miss it!!!

http://www.rockinvasion.de/video/emp-rockinvasion-vorschau-dmax

7 Sinners World Tour 2010/2011 ended in Russia!

On September 20th the pumpkins concluded the final part of their 2010 / 2011 7 SINNERS world tour with a great show in St.Petersburg / Russia.

This marks the end to a very successful tour of almost one year taking the boys throughout 36 countries, playing more than 80 shows in front of several hundred thousand people all over the world. There have been far too many great moments in this period of time to be mentioned here.

A big "thank you" goes out to the guys of Stratovarius who have contributed their part by being far more than a "very special guest" on the tour!

Now, the pumpkin-heads will go on a well-deserved break before entering the studio in the beginning of 2012 to work on the new record. Last and foremost HELLOWEEN wishes to thank you - all the pumpkin-maniacs all over the globe - for your enthusiastic support at every single show.

Click here for the "thank you" video!

Helloween to headline Global East Rock Festival 2011

HELLOWEEN are happy to announce that they will be headlining this year’s edition of the Global East Rock Festival 2011 in Kiew/Ukraine. HELLOWEEN will be appearing on the 11th of September 2011.

Global East Rock Festival 2011 will be taking place in the club Bingo, Ukraine, Kyiv

Helloween to rock biggest festival- show of their career!!

The incredible number of over fivehundred-thousand (500.000 !!!) people attended the pumpkins headliner show last friday at the Przystanek Woodstock Festival 2011 in Poland.

Although having played to huge audiences around the globe before, such as "Rock in Rio" and "Castle Donnington" in the UK,  this was an outstanding experience for the boys who put on great show energized by half a million people!

Helloween says a big " Thank you" to all the fans and people at the Przystanek Woodstock Festival who made this overwhelming night become one to always be remembered!!!

Heading for Jakarta!

After an extensive world tour – which last chapter will lead the band through Russia & Ukraine in September – the Pumkins are already half way through the festival season 2011. Many magic moments on European festival stages all over Finland, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic already took place. The band would like to thank all it‘s fantastic fans for the great atmosphere and the overhelming feedback! Now the time is right for a special trip to Asia where the band will headline the biggest festival in Indonesia: Java Rockin‘ Land.

After that the 2nd European Festival leg will start off with the ultimate Metalfest at Wacken, contiuned by the biggest Festival in Europe at Poland´s Woodstock with unbelieveble 500.000 visitors, plus many more shows in Hungary, Slowakia, Belgium, Romania....a busy summer for the Pumpkin Heads indeed but a highly exciting one as well. So watch out for the next time Andi is asking „Are You Metal?“ again!

HELLOWEEN starts Festival season in Falun, Sweden!

Last night, Saturday, June 5th, HELLOWEEN started the festival season 2011 with a performance at the Rockstad: Falun festival in Sweden.

Over 5000 fans attended the show and enjoyed an energetic metal show. Everybody in the audience could tell the guys had a lot of fun playing music together, and the great Swedish fans had a great time.

In this year´s festival season , the band will play 14 festivals all over Europe. A very special event will certainly be the performance at the biggest Festival in Jakarta / Indonesia (http://web.javarockingland.com/2011/) July 24th.

Latin America tour reaching the end!

Only 2 more shows left in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Latin American leg of Helloween´s 7 Sinners World Tour will be a piece of successful history!

Most of the shows were sold out, and once more the crowds in Latin America proved to be the loudest and craziest all over the world!

Only a few more tickets are available for the shows in Buenos Aires, so don´t miss the chance!

For all who missed the exceptional show in Sao Paulo, here´s a link with some impressions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrossifoto/sets/72157626551858981/show/

Cancelled show in Venezuela

Dear Fans in Venezuela,

we are very sorry that we had to cancel the show in Caracas.

Unfortunately, the promoter did not fulfill his obligations. As a result, we could not guarantee a secure execution of the concert from our side.

We strongly hope that the promoter will refund the tickets, unfortunately this is beyond our control! We hope we can make up for the concert during the next world tour!

Markus forced to play on a bar stool!

Helloween´s bass player Markus Grosskopf, who suffers from a rupture of a muscle fibre since the show in Salvador, was forced to sit on a bar stool during the concerts in Costa Rica and Lima.

Hopefully he´ll be okay to put down his powerful live performance until Bogota´s sold out show - get well Markus!

The show in Costa Rica will be remembered as the probably hottest show in the band´s entire history. Although the venue felt like a Finish sauna, the 2.300 fans showed an unbelievable stamina. Once more thank you!  Our apologies go to the fans who were standing in front of the venue and could not get a ticket anymore.

Stunning opening for HELLOWEEN´s Latin America tour!

A fantastic show in Monterrey and two sold out shows in Mexico City mark the beginning of Helloween´s Latin America tour. Once more, the pumpkin heads had to realize that the Mexican fans are among the loudest on the whole planet!

Helloween says "THANK YOU" and continues it´s journey to El Salvador!

7 SINNERS reaches Gold status in Czech Republic!

After selling out the shows in Prague and Zlin, HELLOWEEN´s current album 7 SINNERS was now awarded with gold status!

HELLOWEEN salutes all Czech metal fans, see you at the Masters of Rock Festival July, 17th!

Are you metal? YOU DEFINITELY ARE!

HOW METAL ARE YOU? THE ULTIMETAL “ARE YOU METAL?” QUIZ ON FACEBOOK!

Always wanted to prove the world you got balls? No problem: The Facebook “Are You Metal?” Quiz is your chance to check your knowledge about your Heavy Heroes and at the same time feast a digital brain wrestling with the whole Metal community. Because we aren’t only challenging die-hard HELLOWEEN fans here – we’re challenging anyone who believes to be Metal enough!

Check out the ULTIMETAL “Are You Metal?” Facebook Quiz right here: http://tinyurl.com/areyoumetal

And – don’t forget to challenge your friends by sharing the quiz with all your buddies!

日本のファンそして友人のみんな、/ To our dear Japanese fans and friends

日本のファンそして友人のみんな、

日本で起きた悲劇には世界中が衝撃を受けている。俺たちは 2 月に日本ツアーを終えたばかりだ。君たちの国でコンサートができ、たくさんの友人と再会し、またしても素敵な日々を過ごすことができたんだ。特に美しい仙台でのコンサートと休日はこれからもずっと忘れることはないだろう。

我々の思いと祈りは日本のみんなと共にあるよ！

アンディ、マイケル、マーカス、サシャ、ダニよ

To our dear Japanese fans and friends,

the whole world is shocked about the tragedy Japanese people have to go through these days.

We just finished our Japanese tour end of February - once more we had the pleasure to spend some wonderful days in your country, play concerts for you and meet many friends again. Especially our concert and free day in beautiful Sendai will always remain in our minds.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you!

Andi, Michael, Markus, Sascha & Dani

7 Sinners Asian Tour successfully completed!

Monday night CET, the 7 Sinners trek, consisting of HELLOWEEN and STRATOVARIUS, returned tired but satisfied back home.  

The Asian tour 2011 included 6 shows in Japan, one in Seoul, South Korea, and marked the fist time ever for HELLOWEEN to play in Beijing, China, and also the return to Taipei in Taiwan after 10 years.

HELLOWEEN ENTERS ASIA

Congratulations, Europe has set the pace and even HELLOWEEN have to take a breath, before the sinners stir up the metal fever in Asia next week. Especially because there really still are premiers after 25 years of band history – Beijing on March 4 is the first HELLOWEEN concert on Chinese soil.

Ersatztermine bestätigt!

Fr    08. Apr.  Oberhausen / Turbinenhalle
Mo  11. Apr.  Hannover / Capitol
Di   12. Apr.  Saarbrücken / Garage

In Bonn und Osnabrück wird es leider aufgrund von örtlichen Terminproblemen zu keinem neuen Termin kommen. Alle anderen Konzerte finden wie gewohnt statt!

Es tut uns sehr leid und wir hoffen auf euer Verständnis.

Deutschland-Konzerte bis 06.02.11 abgesagt (Update)

Aufgrund einer Stimmbandentzündung von Helloween Sänger Andi, müssen wir folgende Konzerte

01. Feb D - Saarbrücken  
02. Feb D - Bonn  
04. Feb D - Hannover  
05. Feb D - Oberhausen  
06. Feb D - Osnabrück

schweren Herzens absagen! Bei der gestrigen Show im Z7 konnte sich Andi vor ausverkauftem Haus noch durchkämpfen aber um evtl Schäden an der Stimme zu vermeiden, wurde vom Arzt eine Zwangspause verordnet.

Es tut uns sehr leid und wir hoffen auf euer Verständnis - die Tickets behalten ihre Gültigkeit - einen Nachholtermin werden wir schnellstmöglich mitteilen.

Helloween

Presov, Slovakia, 29.01.2011

Vazeni fanousci!

Bohuzel musime odrict na dnesek naplanovany koncert v Presove,Slovenska Republika.Nas produkcni tym dnes rano na miste vesel do haly,ktera se jeste renovuje - jinou lokalitu,ve ktere by se dala zajistit bezpecnost 3.000 fanousku, poradatel nebyl schopny zajistit.Velmi nas to mrzi,ale jistota nasich fanousku je pro nas absolutne prioritni. Co nejdrive bude oznamen nahradni termin-jiz zakoupene vstupenky samozrejme zustavaji platne!!

Doufame,ze nase rozhodnuti pochopite.I my jsme si to dnes s vami chteli uzit - ale za halu nejsme zodpovedni!

Helloween


Dear fans!

Unfortunately we have to cancel the concert in SK-Presov that was planed for today. Our production arrived in a sports hall today that is still under reconstruction - a different venue where the safety for the 3.000 fans could have been guaranteed the promoter couldn't offer us. We are very sorry but safety first for our fans! As soon as possible we will let you know about a new date - the tickets of course remain valid!!

We hope you will understand our decision. We would have liked to rock with you tonight.But we are not responsible for the hall!

Helloween

The first Latin-American dates confirmed...

...more to come...watch out at the Tour section!!

16.04.2011 Mexico • Mexico City • Circo Volador
26.04.2011 Colombia • Bogota • Teatro Metropol
30.04.2011 Chile • Santiago • Teleton
10.05.2011 Argentina • Buenos Aires • Groove

HELLOWEEN bei ARTE Tracks

Kurz vor dem Start der Welttournee begleitete ein Team von ARTE Tracks die Band beim Videodreh in Beelitz.

Dort schauten die Magazin-Macher nicht nur beim Videodreh zum Song "Are You Metal?" zu, sondern befragten auch Sänger Andi Deris und Gitarristen Sascha Gerstner, welche Platten für sie die wichtigsten sind.

Das ganze wird am Donnerstag, 20.01. um 23:05 Uhr auf dem Sender ARTE ausgestrahlt. Wer es da nicht schafft, hat noch die Chance, sich die Wiederholungen am 22.01. um 1:25 Uhr bzw. am 25.01. um 5:00 Uhr anzuschauen.

Burrnin´ Album Charts

7 SINNERS hits Pos.1 at Burrnin´Album Charts!

Thanks to all our Japanese Fans – see you in February!

BRAND-NEW CONTENT AND CONTEST AT THE ‘CLUB OF THE 7 SINNERS’

Insiders are in the know: there are exciting news and contests at the ‘Club of the 7 Sinners’ all the time. Wallpaper, galleries and peeks behind the scenes of HELLOWEEN and “7 SINNERS” included. Disregard in which (physical) version you are moving in with the sinners: all CD buyers can belong to the illustrious circle of the Club. Simply insert the CD in your computer, register for the Club area, log in and go straight to the exclusive extras. It still pays off: as of now, the ‘Club of the 7 Sinners’ is showing a very personal Tattoo Special by Sascha and Dani and you can win cool shirts and album vinyl!

"7 SINNERS TOUR" SUPPORT NEWS

The Hard Rock institution PINK CREAM 69 will complete the package of HELLOWEEN and their very special guest STRATOVARIUS at all German concerts of the 7 Sinners world tour in February 2011. A special kind of circle will close for the Karlsruhe formation, celebrating their 20th birthday with the release of a Live-Double CD and a History/Live DVD last year.

After all, HELLOWEEN singer Andi Deris was a founding member of PINK CREAM 69 and co-shaped the band decisively at the beginning of their career. Both bands will share a stage for the very first time. Adding PINK CREAM 69 to the package will thrill lovers of technically perfect and extremely catchy Rock music even more.

All dates, venues and support bands, here:

"7 SINNERS" CHART NEWS

The seven sinners have pretty much swept the board ˆ thanks a lot for that! This is what it looks like in figures:

Japan: # 6
Finland: # 16
Greece: # 10
Germany:  # 25
Czech Republic: # 9
Switzerland: # 38
Sweden: # 40
Spain: # 51
Austria: # 57
France: # 65
European Billboard Charts: # 56

Club of the 7 Sinners

“7 Sinners” includes access to exclusive online bonus features! Download bonus material, get to know more about the background of the album and take part in the special prize-draw to win tickets, merchandise and more!

Simply insert the CD in your PC/Mac and enter the “Club Of The 7 Sinners”!

Already joined the club? Then just log in with your nickname!

[Login now!]

Vienna: new venue

Please be advised that due to the good ticket-sales, the venue for the Helloween show in Vienna on the 26nd of November has changed to the following:

planet.tt @ Gasometer

“ARE YOU METAL?” - THE QUIZ

It’s your turn now: how well do you know your way around the Metal world and how extensive is your insider knowledge? At the ultimate “Are You Metal?” quiz you can prove it to everyone. Crack the highscore and challenge your friends! Don’t need to be told twice? Off you go to the quiz arena: www.areyoumetal.com.