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Sabina Classen
Person · female · Germany · Aachen · born 1963
German singer
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Also known as Sabina Hirtz · Сабина Классен
Timeline
1960s
Biography
Biography
Sabina Classen (née Hirtz; born 27 December 1963) is a German thrash metal singer, best known as lead vocalist of Holy Moses and Temple of the Absurd.
Career
In 1981, Classen joined Holy Moses, where her then-husband Andy Classen was playing guitar. In 1988, she presented the heavy metal television program Mosh. After the break-up of Holy Moses in 1994, she formed the band Temple of the Absurd. The band released two albums and was disbanded in 2000. The same year, Holy Moses was reformed and remained functional until 2023.
With Holy Moses
Queen of Siam (1986)
Finished with the Dogs (1987)
The New Machine of Lichtenstein (1989)
World Chaos (1990)
Terminal Terror (1991)
Reborn Dogs (1992)
No Matter What's the Cause (1994)
Master of Disaster (2001)
Disorder of the Order (2002)
Strength Power Will Passion (2005)
Agony of Death (2008)
Redefined Mayhem (2014)
Invisible Queen (2023)
With Temple of the Absurd
Absurd (1995)
Mother, Creator, God (1999)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Sabina Classen head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple of the Absurd(band) | — | present | |
| Holy Moses(band) | December 1981 | 1992 | lead vocals |
| Holy Moses(band) | 2000 | present | lead vocals |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Attribution · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Moses_Metal_Frenzy_2018_36.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f79e9b1b-7e66-46f7-8f8c-262d8fb7168adiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f79e9b1b-7e66-46f7-8f8c-262d8fb7168acore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453186genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453186seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabina_Classenbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabina_Classen
Why this artist is in the database
- List of thrash metal bands — rank #15
Holy Moses | 1980 | Germany | | thumb|180x180px|Sabina Classen of [[Holy Moses, 2005]]
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Image: S. Bollmann · Attribution · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q453186 · MusicBrainz: f79e9b1b-7e66-46f7-8f8c-262d8fb7168a
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