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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:16 am
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.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:13 pm
Amazingly cheesy, one of my guilty pleasures.
SATANI, SATANI, IN AMUS DIGNITA
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:18 pm
A Diadem of Dead Stars Amazingly cheesy, one of my guilty pleasures.
SATANI, SATANI, IN AMUS DIGNITA The first I heard of this band was when I stumbled across a couple of their covers. "Gods of War Arise" by Amon Amarth, and "Shot In The Dark" by Ozzy Osbourne. I don't listen to them often, but once in a while I enjoy listening to an album or two.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:28 pm
I'm not too big on Powerwolf to be honest. They have a couple songs that strike my fancy, like Blessed & Possessed, and Army of the Night. Other than that, I simply cannot bring myself to buy an album.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:36 pm
((I realize that this thread is ancient, so if someone wants to delete my post or whatever, go ahead. I didn't see anything about necroposts, so please inform if I'm crossing lines here. Thank you))
I can take or leave them (except Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend, that's a banger, especially with Alissa White-Gluz blaugh ), but there's something that gets to me that nobody else ever seems to notice:
Why do so very many of their song titles have exactly 5 syllables?! xd
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:16 pm
Saya Shuri ((I realize that this thread is ancient, so if someone wants to delete my post or whatever, go ahead. I didn't see anything about necroposts, so please inform if I'm crossing lines here. Thank you)) I can take or leave them (except Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend, that's a banger, especially with Alissa White-Gluz blaugh ), but there's something that gets to me that nobody else ever seems to notice: Why do so very many of their song titles have exactly 5 syllables?! xd Yes, this thread is ancient but still going. Their covers are phenomenal and I freaked out at their recent Alice Cooper cover. The cover is better than the original. Demons Are a Girls Best Friend is one of their hit singles. The original, anyhow.
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