- Powerwolf【 14 albums 115 lyrics 】
- Powerwolf is a German power metal band created in 2003 by Charles and Matthew Greywolf. The group is notable for having dark themes and images, both musically and lyrically, both counteractions to traditional power metal music and including usage of corpse paint, gothic-tinged compositions and songs about Romanian werewolf and vampire legends and dark religious tales.
When the band was founded, the members decided to take on pseudonyms and build up backstories around those. Officially, the brothers Charles and Matthew Greywolf had been playing together for years, when they decided to create a band, and so Powerwolf was started. Soon the brothers added French drummer Stéfane Funèbre and German keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel to the band, but could not find a suitable singer to complete the line-up. In the meantime, the band started writing, and on holidays in Romania, Charles and Matthew met Attila Dorn. Dorn, who studied classical opera at the Music Academy of Bucharest, moved to the band's hometown Saarbrücken, and became the frontman of Powerwolf. With Dorn's love of Romanian werewolf legends, the band created their debut album, Return in Bloodred, which used these same legends as the basis for many of the lyrics. In 2007, they followed up with their second album, Lupus Dei, a concept album starring a wolf as the main character and his fall from bloodlust to enlightenment.
Powerwolf's third album Bible of the Beast was released on April 25, 2009.
In 2010, Powerwolf organist Falk Maria Schlegel stated about the group's new material: 'We spent the last three months in the rehearsal room working out stuff for the new album. Even though it's still in the making, we can already promise the songs are 100% POWERWOLF, taking off where Bible of the Beast ended. There's furious stuff, there's epic stuff — and all of it is catchy as hell.'
Their fourth album, titled Blood of the Saints, was released on July 29, 2011 in Europe and August 2 in the United States.
In 2012, Powerwolf released two albums. The first was the Wolfsnaechte Tour EP, a split EP with Mystic Prophecy, Stormwarrior, and Lonewolf. This EP featured a previously unreleased Powerwolf track, 'Living on a Nightmare'. Copies of this EP were originally distributed along with the purchase of tickets to Powerwolf's Wolfsnaechte Tour but since the tour's conclusion, copies have been available in the Powerwolf webstore.
The second of Powerwolf's 2012 releases was Alive in the Night, the band's first live album. It contained 10 tracks and was just over 45 minutes in length. It was released with the April 2012 issue of the German edition of Metal Hammer.
Powerwolf released Preachers of the Night on 18 July 2013.
In 2014, Powerwolf released The History of Heresy I and The History of Heresy II, the second of which included several orchestral versions of Powerwolf songs. On July 17, 2015, the band released Blessed & Possessed.
On 10 October 2017, Powerwolf announced on Facebook that they had completed writing for their seventh full-length album, promising its release to occur sometime in 2018.
Members
Current Lineup
Attila Dorn – Vocals (2003-Present)
Matthew Greywolf – Lead and rhythm guitar (2003-Present)
Charles Greywolf – Rhythm guitar, studio bass guitar (2003-Present)
Falk Maria Schlegel – Keyboards (2003-Present)
Roel van Helden – Drums (2011-Present)
Past Members
Stefan Gemballa – Drums (2003-2010)
Thomas Diener – Drums (2010-2011)
Discography
Return in Bloodred (2005)
Lupus Dei (2007)
Bible of the Beast (2009)
Blood of the Saints (2011)
Preachers of the Night (2013)
Blessed & Possessed (2015)
TBA (2018)
EPs
Wolfsnächte 2012 - Tour EP (2012)
The Rockhard Sacrament (2013)
Wolfsnächte 2015 - Tour EP (2015)
Live records
Alive in the Night (2012)
The Metal Mass Live (2016)
Preaching at the Breeze (2017) - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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The Metal Mass
2016
1.Werewolves of Armenia (Live)
2.Blessed & Possessed (Live)
3.Coleus Sanctus (Live)4.Dead Boys Don't Cry (Live)
5.In the Name of God (Deus Vult) (Live)
6.All We Need Is Blood (Live) -
Blessed & Possessed
2015
1.Blessed & Possessed (Provided)
2.All You Can Bleed
3.Sacramental Sister
4.Sanctus Dominus (Provided)
5.Christ & Combat
6.Higher Than Heaven7.We Are the Wild
8.Armata Strigoi
9.Army Of The Night
10.Dead Until Dark
11.Let There Be Night (Provided) -
The History Of Heresy I
2014
1.Lupus Daemonis (Provided)2.Vampires Don't Die -
The Rockhard Sacrament
2013
1.In The Name Of God
2.Headless Cross3.Nightcrawler
4.Amen & Attack (Orchestra Version) -
Preachers of the Night
2013
1.Amen & Attack
2.Secrets Of The Sacristy
3.Coleus Sanctus
4.Sacred & Wild
5.Kreuzfeuer
6.Cardinal Sin7.In The Name Of God (Deus Vult)
8.Nochnoi Dozor
9.Lust For Blood
10.Extatum Et Oratum
11.Last Of The Living Dead (Provided) -
Amen and Attack
2013
1.Amen and Attack2.Living on a Nightmare -
Blood Of The Saints
2011-09
1.Opening_Agnus Dei (Provided)
2.Sanctified with Dynamite
3.We Drink Your Blood
4.Murder at Midnight
5.All We Need is Blood
6.Dead Boys Don't Cry7.Son of a Wolf
8.Night of the Werewolves
9.Phantom Of The Funeral
10.Die Die Crucified
11.Ira Sancti (When The Saints Are Going Wild) -
Bible Of The Beast
2009
1.Raise Your Fist, Evangelist
2.Moscow After Dark
3.Panic In The Pentagram
4.Catholic In The Morning...Satanist At Night
5.Seven Deadly Saints
6.Werewolves Of Armenia7.We Take The Church By Storm
8.Resurrection By Erection
9.Midnight Messiah
10.St. Satan's Day
11.Wolves Against The World
12.Opening: Prelude To Purgatory -
Lupus Dei
2007
1.Lupus Daemonis (Intro) (Provided)
2.We Take It From The Living
3.Prayer In The Dark
4.Saturday Satan
5.In Blood We Trust
6.Behind The Leathermask7.Vampires Don't Die
8.When The Moon Shines Red
9.Mother Mary Is A Bird Of Prey
10.Tiger Of Sabrod
11.Lupus Dei -
Return in Bloodred
2005
1.Mr. Sinister
2.We Came to Take Your Souls
3.Kiss of the Cobra King
4.Black Mass Hysteria
5.Demons & Diamonds
6.Montecore7.The Evil Made Me Do It
8.Lucifer in Starlight
9.Son of the Morning Star
10.Mr. Sinister (Live)
11.We Came to Take Your Souls (Live) (Provided)
12.Kiss of the Cobra King (Live) -
The History of Heresy II
1.Seven Deadly Sins
2.Son of a Wolf
3.Raise Your Fist, Evangelist
4.Catholic in the Morning... Satanist at Night
5.Die, Die, Crucified6.All We Need Is Blood
7.Riding the Storm
8.Testament in Black
9.Ressurection by Erection
10.We Drink Your Blood -
The History of Heresy I (2004 - 2008)
1.We Take It from the Living (Live)
2.Mr. Sinister
3.Tiger of Sabrod
4.Mother Mary Is a Bird of Prey
5.When the Moon Shines Red
6.Vampires Don't Die7.Behind the Leathermask
8.In Blood We Trust (Live)
9.Saturday Satan (Live)
10.Prayer in the Dark (Live)
11.Saturday Satan -
Metallum Nostrum
1.The Evil That Men Do
2.Touch of Evil
3.Out In the Fields4.Shot In the Dark
5.Edge of Thorns -
Miscellaneous
1.Phanoton Of The Funeral
2.Die, Die, Crucify
3.Ira Sancti (When the Saints Are Going Wild) [Orchestral Version]
4.Riding the Storm (Bonus Track)5.Raise Your Fist, Evangelist (Orchestral Version)
6.Coleus Sanctus (orchestral version)
7.Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend
【Correction of errors in the album information】