Sinner - Santa Muerte
AFM / Suburban / Bertus
Genre: Hard Rock
Format: Digipak, ltd. Vinyl
Release 13.09.19
Marketing / Distribution : Suburban / Bertus
Promotion : The Rock Online
The Band:
Mat Sinner (Bass & Vocals), Giorgia Colleluori (Vocals), Tom Naumann (Guitars), Alex Scholpp (Guitars), Markus Kullmann (Drums)
Artists such as Mat Sinner, who’s kept his band on target for more than 35 years, releasing well over a dozen studio
albums (plus a number of live recordings and compilations), have got to be doing a lot of things right. The success
of the German heavy metal act is based, last but not least, on its boss’s talent for unwaveringly sticking to his
chosen course while never losing his passion for new challenges. Sinner is happy to accept the fact that such feats
frequently necessitate a bit of a gamble, after all: “Evolvement entails a certain element of risk, and without
evolvement we’d soon reach a point where we’d fail to live up to our own standards.” Sinner have certainly
succeeded in living up to their own standards on their new album, Santa Muerte, scheduled for release on
AFM/Soulfood on 13 September 2019. And definitely to those of their fans.
But let’s begin with the most obvious innovation: Santa Muerte features a permanent second voice, alongside
frontman Mat, for the first time. This voice is female, hails from Venice and answers to the name of Giorgia
Colleluori. Mat: “I’d first noticed Georgia in her own band, Eternal Idol, that’s why we enlisted her as a
background vocalist for ‘Rock meets Classic’. During that tour it transpired that Georgia would fit in really well
with Sinner. So we asked her to join us on stage for three classics during a number of shows in Australia, Japan and
Germany. The audience’s reactions were awesome, so we decided to ask her to join the band on a permanent
basis.” Colleluori’s vocal range has lent a whole new dimension to Sinner’s current songs in particular – according
to Mat – “a dimension that I wouldn’t have been able to achieve by myself.”
The second innovation: in Ricky Warwick (Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders) and Ronnie Romero (Ritchie
Blackmore´s Rainbow), Santa Muerte features two of the currently most charismatic vocalists of the international
rock scene as guests. “I met Ricky in connection with Rock meets Classic, too,” explains Mat. “We frequently sat
on the tour bus together, talked for hours and have become real friends. Ricky is very similar to me, down to earth,
honest, a little rough.” Warwick’s unique voice can be heard on ‘What Went Wrong’, a straightforward rock
number with an Irish-inspired Thin Lizzy flair. Ronnie Romero on the other hand, whose voice features on ‘Fiesta
Y Copas’, came to Sinner’s attention in 2015 for the first time at a major festival in Italy, where Mat’s power metal
act Primal Fear and Romero’s Spanish band Lords Of Black played on the same stage. Other guests on Santa
Muerte are Swedish guitarist/co-songwriter Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear, Allen/Lande) on ‘Death Letter’ and
background vocalist Sascha Krebs, who already contributed fantastic choir parts to (almost) all songs on Sinner’s
previous release Tequila.
Talking of ‘Death Letter’, which has a particular significance: Most fans know the White Stripes’ version of this
bluesy number, which originally dates back to 1930 and was composed by delta blues icon Son House, who
Mat Sinner Producer
TRACKSShine On * Fiesta Y Copas * Santa Muerte * Last Exit Hell * What Went Wrong * Lucky 13 * Death Letter *
Craving * The Wolf * Misty Mountain * The Ballad Of Jack * Stormy Night
TOUR DATES11.09.2019 - ESSEN – Turock
12.09.2019 - SIEGBURG – Kubana
13.09.2019 - MANNHEIM – MS Connexion Complex
14.09.2019 - BURGRIEDEN – Riffelhof
04.10.2019 - REGENSBURG – Eventhall Airport
05.10.2019 - REICHENBACH – Die Halle
06.10.2019 - BAMBERG – Live-Club
www.matsinner.com
THE ROCK ONLINE - BeNeLux Promotion & Marketing - Theo Samson (Radio / Print / Web)
theo@therockonline.nl, www.therockonline.nl
The Band:
Mat Sinner (Bass & Vocals), Giorgia Colleluori (Vocals), Tom Naumann (Guitars), Alex Scholpp (Guitars), Markus Kullmann (Drums)
Artists such as Mat Sinner, who’s kept his band on target for more than 35 years, releasing well over a dozen studio
albums (plus a number of live recordings and compilations), have got to be doing a lot of things right. The success
of the German heavy metal act is based, last but not least, on its boss’s talent for unwaveringly sticking to his
chosen course while never losing his passion for new challenges. Sinner is happy to accept the fact that such feats
frequently necessitate a bit of a gamble, after all: “Evolvement entails a certain element of risk, and without
evolvement we’d soon reach a point where we’d fail to live up to our own standards.” Sinner have certainly
succeeded in living up to their own standards on their new album, Santa Muerte, scheduled for release on
AFM/Soulfood on 13 September 2019. And definitely to those of their fans.
But let’s begin with the most obvious innovation: Santa Muerte features a permanent second voice, alongside
frontman Mat, for the first time. This voice is female, hails from Venice and answers to the name of Giorgia
Colleluori. Mat: “I’d first noticed Georgia in her own band, Eternal Idol, that’s why we enlisted her as a
background vocalist for ‘Rock meets Classic’. During that tour it transpired that Georgia would fit in really well
with Sinner. So we asked her to join us on stage for three classics during a number of shows in Australia, Japan and
Germany. The audience’s reactions were awesome, so we decided to ask her to join the band on a permanent
basis.” Colleluori’s vocal range has lent a whole new dimension to Sinner’s current songs in particular – according
to Mat – “a dimension that I wouldn’t have been able to achieve by myself.”
The second innovation: in Ricky Warwick (Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders) and Ronnie Romero (Ritchie
Blackmore´s Rainbow), Santa Muerte features two of the currently most charismatic vocalists of the international
rock scene as guests. “I met Ricky in connection with Rock meets Classic, too,” explains Mat. “We frequently sat
on the tour bus together, talked for hours and have become real friends. Ricky is very similar to me, down to earth,
honest, a little rough.” Warwick’s unique voice can be heard on ‘What Went Wrong’, a straightforward rock
number with an Irish-inspired Thin Lizzy flair. Ronnie Romero on the other hand, whose voice features on ‘Fiesta
Y Copas’, came to Sinner’s attention in 2015 for the first time at a major festival in Italy, where Mat’s power metal
act Primal Fear and Romero’s Spanish band Lords Of Black played on the same stage. Other guests on Santa
Muerte are Swedish guitarist/co-songwriter Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear, Allen/Lande) on ‘Death Letter’ and
background vocalist Sascha Krebs, who already contributed fantastic choir parts to (almost) all songs on Sinner’s
previous release Tequila.
Talking of ‘Death Letter’, which has a particular significance: Most fans know the White Stripes’ version of this
bluesy number, which originally dates back to 1930 and was composed by delta blues icon Son House, who
Mat Sinner Producer
Craving * The Wolf * Misty Mountain * The Ballad Of Jack * Stormy Night
12.09.2019 - SIEGBURG – Kubana
13.09.2019 - MANNHEIM – MS Connexion Complex
14.09.2019 - BURGRIEDEN – Riffelhof
04.10.2019 - REGENSBURG – Eventhall Airport
05.10.2019 - REICHENBACH – Die Halle
06.10.2019 - BAMBERG – Live-Club
www.matsinner.com
theo@therockonline.nl, www.therockonline.nl
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