SINNER (Hard Rock/Metal – Germany – Featuring MAT SINNER from PRIMAL FEAR) – Release their new album “Brotherhood” via Atomic Fire Records – Watch/listen to 2 videos/songs NOW #Sinner

German hard rock quartet and recent Atomic Fire Records signees SINNER will released their new studio album, Brotherhood, on July 15th.

The heavy metal world has given birth to a fair number of legends. But none is just like Mat Sinner. So much conviction, lifeblood and self-sacrifice, so much pure heavy metal spirit, so much dedication is usually not found bundled in one single person.

Since 1982 he’s fronted the band named after him, an exceptional phenomenon not only in the German metal community. In 1997, he single-handedly made power metal presentable again with Primal Fear while as musical director of the fabulously successful “Rock meets Classic” treks, he regularly brings two different musical worlds and illustrious guests together on stage. Now he makes his triumphant return with SINNER. Three years after Santa Muerte and an incredible 40 years after the debut, Brotherhood is here – a massive album whose title is as self-explanatory as the mission of its creator.

“This band is held together by a tight bond of friendship,” says Mat Sinner. “Without this friendship, SINNER simply would not exist.”

Said band is made up of Sinner, guitarist Tom Naumann, with whom Sinner has been through thick and thin for 35 years, guitarist Alex Scholpp and, since 2018, drummer Markus Kullmann. With these gentlemen, Sinner knows, he can achieve anything. And that’s what Brotherhood, SINNER‘s eighteenth record, is all about. It is an album that carries the band’s close bond under its heart just as much as the brotherhood of the worldwide heavy metal family.

“We belong together, and this album is meant to express that.” Of course, one might precociously remark that basically every SINNER album deserves to be called “Brotherhood.” But this one, Mat Sinner is sure, more than any other. Here is a record that documents struggle, symbolizes unity, celebrates the underdogs, and honors the metal subculture. The very own DNA of SINNER, the deepest core, the innermost nucleus are brought to new bloom on Brotherhood. With hooks, riffs, and precise hardness, Mat Sinner revitalizes virtues that he helped invent four decades ago.

And even if he can play this music in his sleep, even there is metal for blood in his veins: The force, the heaviness, and the razor-sharp riffs will even make members of the innermost SINNER fan circle keel over. The wild chase begins with opener “Bulletproof,” an overture that takes as few prisoners as Judas Priest’s “Painkiller” once did. “We Came to Rock” is a self-explanatory manifesto with skull-splitting riffing and hefty punch, the title track already one of the anthems of the metal year 2022 and “Refuse to Surrender” a heavy mid-tempo crusher, is like an outstretched middle finger in all those faces that had already written SINNER off.
The fire, it blazes miraculously brighter than ever. This also applies to the epic, gloomy “The Last Generation,” a wake-up call for society.

Their goal is ever so clear: “Harder, bigger, louder,” as chief strategist Sinner puts it plainly. “I was also going for an international sound.” That he got. And not from some producer. Instead, Mat Sinner didn’t only write the album, he didn’t only lay the tracks for vocals and bass; alongside his comrade Naumann, he also produced the whole affair, lending Brotherhood a muscular and confident attitude. “For mixing and mastering, however, I went to my old buddy Jacob Hansen,” he grins. You know him from his arena-worthy work for Volbeat, of course. He also graced SINNER with a new, nicely zeitgeisty, massive alloy. Suits them. Anyone who listens to Brotherhood will quickly realize one thing: SINNER probably never sounded so big, so self-confident, and so hungry for the really big gig. Big words, we know. This is, of course, in part thanks to the impressive guest list that the restless mastermind has gathered around this album like bards around a campfire. Kamelot virtuoso Oliver Palotai provides the sublime orchestrations, Primal Fear buddy Ralf Scheepers is a guest singer alongside Rainbow vocalist Ronnie Romero, Tom Englund of Evergrey  and death metal legend Dave Ingram of Benediction. As with his band, the same applies when it comes to musical guests: it has to be a personal fit. “I only work with friends and longtime companions,” Sinner clarifies. For someone like him, of course, this is easy talk: If you’ve been around as long as Mat Sinner, and you’re such a damn fine guy to boot, you’ve got the talents of half the metal world on speed dial. Brotherhood profits from this. And bangs with timpani and trumpets right into the throne room.

Brotherhood was produced by Mat Sinner, co-produced by guitarist Tom Naumann, and recorded by Basi Roeder at Backyard Studios as well as Mitch Kunz at Apollo 13 Audio. Jacob Hansen mixed and mastered it at Hansen Studios, Denmark. Artwork was completed by 123RF GmbH / W. Cliff Knese (Terrafolio).

Preorder the album on CD, LP, or digital formats at THIS LOCATION.

Track List:

1.  – Bulletproof 04:02
2.  – We Came To Rock 04:04
3.  – Reach Out 04:52
4.  – Brotherhood 04:22
5.  – Refuse To Surrender 03:37
6.  – The Last Generation 07:25
7.  – Gravity 05:09
8.  – The Man They Couldn’t Hang 05:16
9.  – The Rocker Rides Away 04:42
10.  – My Scar s04:02
11.  – 40 Days 40 Night s05:53
12.  – When You Were Young (The Killers Cover; Bonus Track)

Brotherhood Special Guests:
Dave Ingram
Erik Martensson
Giorgia Colleluori
Lisa Müller
Mark Basile
Neil Witchard
Oliver Palotai
Ralf Scheepers
Ronnie Romero
Sascha Krebs
Stef E.
Tom Englund

SINNER:
Mat Sinner – vocals, bass
Tom Naumann – guitars
Alex Scholpp – guitars
Markus Kullmann – drums

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http://www.facebook.com/matsinnerofficial
http://www.instagram.com/mat.sinner

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