Powerwolf



Powerwolf is a German power metal band. 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 Transylvanian werewolf and vampire legends and dark religious tales.

Return in Bloodred (2005)
Into my arms and see There is no God too fear Lucifer is near Walk with me Into the light and see No way will be to far Son of the Morning Star
 * Come to me
 * Son of the Morning Star

Lupus Dei (2007)
The altar burning as the demons rise The word defied. The crucified The sermon spoken on a bloodred night The holy whore they're fighting for Like lambs to slaughter in a bible war
 * A martyr dies for Jesus Christ
 * Prayer in the Dark

I praise the morning star Good evening little lady Come join me in my car I am the one you'll come to A wolf in his best disguise Don't say they never told you The evil... evil never dies?
 * At night I'm dressed as lover
 * Saturday Satan

Killing time today Feel the war inside yourself And burn them all away Leather hides my face Blood is on my trace Until the end of days
 * Stay; Better start to pray
 * Behind the Leathermask

A tiger in search of his prey I wonder will we be alive By the dawning of day? Predator of godly creation In hunger he stops at no child Obsessed by the fever to follow The call of the wild
 * At night in the forest of Sabrod
 * Tiger of Sabrod

Bible of the Beast (2009)
The bible in hand The glory of war and praise Are you praying for the final grace? With power and pride And God on our side We follow the holy way Stand and scream for all the world today
 * We conquer the land
 * Raise Your Fist, Evangelist

The volume to the right Heavy in the morning Metal in the night All we pray, for metal we will die Metal in the morning Metal in the night
 * Raise your horns
 * Catholic in the Morning... Satanist at Night

Inquisition day Betray no religion Break the chain Sanctify your soul
 * Pay to pray
 * We Take the Church by Storm

Raise your phallus to the sky and you never die It's resurrection by erection When you wake up from the dead, then the angels give you head Hallelujah, resurrection
 * Resurrection by erection
 * Resurrection by Erection

Prepare for going wild The new messiah calling The purgatory child Before my flesh is fading The virgin has a turn The third of days we're climbing, the point of no return
 * The devil and the maiden
 * Resurrection by Erection

But now the saviour has arrived Messiah, messiah, I fight in your command Messiah, messiah, my life is in your hand Son of Nazareth, we hail your name To the end of time we raise your flame
 * Satan is alive, Satan is alive
 * Midnight Messiah

Nightmare and torment arise Burn on the pyre, find no escape Now the time for dominator All we need today For hell we pray
 * Sacrilege, fire, murder and rape
 * St. Satan's Day

Never come alone We are wolves against the world We keep the storm alive We are made of stone Forever wolves against the world
 * We are the bloodred five
 * Wolves Against the World

Blood of the Saints (2011)
Die, die, die tonight Sanctified with dynamite Die, die, dynamite Hallelujah!
 * And we all
 * Sanctified With Dynamite

We are the war, we never see the light The order call, we all will take more human wine And we toast to the night We fold our hands, we keep the bible in our minds Oh father God, we are the hordes of Cain And though you run we will take you and we find Any type, any vein
 * Oh mother God we hold the sword in holy times
 * We Drink Your Blood

He is a master of hiding, and he left not a trace And by the moonlight saw the goat shape of his face He got an interrogation and they tried hard to break him but it couldn't be prooved The only trace they ever found was cloven hooved
 * He must have done it alone
 * Murder at Midnight

One night in hell and you wake up undead Dead when the day, alive in the night Gone with the morning horizon Don't you dare say, the dead you adore When you decide you can't take any more Phantoms we are, and lonesome we ride Into the dark of the night
 * When we come near don't hide in your bed
 * Dead Boys Don't Cry

Onto the other side Your might untold and waiting Boy you'll be the final light Your mother fought the demons Your brother saw the light And now we pray the unborn You and I can't stay alive
 * Tonight alone you're riding
 * Son of a Wolf

When the seventh night has come And you realize the mark Are you taken all alone Holy Christ in flesh and bone Pray, the werewolves left the ark See it's not a sermon, they can't call me back And when the moon is high, we call the pack – we attack!
 * You can hide and start the run
 * Night of the Werewolves

Preachers of the Night (2013)
And we lead the storm of the wild! Be the wildest of the pack, screaming Amen and Attack And we fight with God on our side!
 * When the night is cold and black, we sing Amen and Attack
 * Amen & Attack

Haleluja amen The weight of the cross when to hell we descend Haleluja amen We write our fate in testaments We sign the words with blood Unite the sky the requiem of God
 * We pray all our lives until we die in the end
 * Secrets of the Sacristy

We are the sermon of fight We bring the nightside sacred and wild We are the demons of light The holy word you can't fight We bring the nightside sacred and wild Fight, fight, sacred and wild
 * We are the dark of the night
 * Sacred & Wild

In the night Cardinal Sin Blind in light They locked him in for cardinal sin At midnight he came to kill
 * They call him Cardinal Sin
 * Cardinal Sin

Blessed & Possessed (2015)
Undead life our reward And we carry our lust all alone To the bible we're sworn In desire transform We're not blessed When undressed to the bone
 * And we die by the sword
 * Blessed & Possessed

Let your Mind go wild before the Light Here we come the Army of the Night Mater Maria Lined up Side by Side and bound to pray Sent to die and fight the Final Day Army of the Night – we came to stay Mater Maria
 * Stand up all the Night and call the Fight
 * Army of the Night

For seven sins are defined to deploy Along the front of Moldavian strikers Armata strigoi We pray for mercy of Mater Maria The sacred lie who gave birth to the boy We drink the blood of the fallen believer Armata Strigoi
 * We hail the cross and we kill by the bible
 * Armata Strigoi

Gone as mighty crusaders and never came back Ascend to heaven for Christ and combat In remembrance of the dark
 * Ten thousand men died for Christ and combat
 * Christ & Combat

God bless the father, the son Let there be night And day be gone Let there be night The mass of dark has begun Let there be night And damn the sun
 * Let there be night
 * Let There Be Night

The Sacrament of Sin (2018)
Scream fire and forgive Forgiven the liar, by fire we live We bring fire, sing fire Scream fire and forgive The last of our blood we will give
 * And we bring fire, sing fire
 * Fire & Forgive

Girl don't you dare to seek for candle light 'Cause in the dark, your demons come as carnal dynamite
 * And when your sleep is haunted in the night
 * Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend

In the light of the moon when our lives are lost In the dark when your blood is calling In the dusk when the fever's crawling In the night came the killers with the cross
 * In the night came the killers with the cross
 * Killers with the Cross

Fight all of the night, banners up high to the top of the land Right into the red, all you can get, incense and iron Stand, follow the fight, doing the right as we come to defend
 * Rise over the dead, bring us ahead, incense and iron
 * Incense and Iron

Has sown the devil's seed, the pestilence Spewing out his soul, a wolf who never sleeps In the lord God's strong arms Der hat des Teufels Saat, die Pestilenz gesät Speit sich die Seele aus, ein Wolf, der niemals schläft In des Herrgotts starken Armen''
 * And he who comes too late in life for the hurried prayer
 * ''Und wer im Leben kommt zu spät zum Stossgebet
 * Stossgebet

The sacrament of sin, for the sin is my will Sacrament of sin, believe it or fall All the night Neanderthal Confess the sacrament of sin, mistress or wife Sacrament of sin, lead a sinister life Sacrament of sin, desire to call Stand up high when cloth will fall
 * Commit the sacrament of sin, in for the kill
 * The Sacrament of Sin

We are the first to kill the sinner for lies We are the blessed, we crave the venom of Venus for life All our life We are the sword we tame the fire, the flame We hail the lord we fear no rebel, no pain We are possessed we have the venom of Venus in veins
 * We are the cursed we came from fire and ice
 * Venom of Venus

Quotes about Powerwolf

 * When we wrote our first album in 2004, and were a power metal band, it was like being a Satanist in the Vatican
 * Matthew Greywolf
 * Source: Powerwolf: "Too many bands take themselves too seriously!", loudersound.com


 * We didn’t have power metal in mind when we called the band "Powerwolf"; it was more the power itself that fits the music, because the music is powerful! It was actually a year later that somebody came up and put the thought into our mind, "Did you mean power metal by it?" Well, no we didn’t, but at least it’s not the most wrong connection!
 * Matthew Greywolf
 * Source: Powerwolf: "Too many bands take themselves too seriously!", loudersound.com


 * I was raised a Catholic. What was fascinating for me was, even at the age of 10 or 11, the contrast between what frame of Catholicism you've been taught at church or in religious education, and the other aspects you could read about in history. The parts didn't fit together for me. So I became really interested in the connection between both, finding out what actually happened with the idea of religion in history. I think it's quite obvious that the spiritual basics of a religion, of a belief, do not have much in common with how religions are used. For example, if you take the Crusades, the actual act of war does not have much in common with what you can read about Christianity in the Bible.
 * Matthew Greywolf
 * Source: Powerwolf: "Too many bands take themselves too seriously!", loudersound.com


 * Some people are confused because we never make a point of saying the silly words of which side we are on. A lot of people ask us, "Are you Satanists? Are you Christians?" And we never say anything about that, and we never will, because in what we do in Powerwolf, it's not important what we as individuals believe or stand for. We sometimes describe religious history, we sometimes write about Satanism, Catholicism, or whatever, but we never judge anything. I think on one side, this is confusing people, but on the other side, a lot of people do understand that we only describe or write lyrics about something, not to deliver a message.
 * Matthew Greywolf
 * Source: Powerwolf: "Too many bands take themselves too seriously!", loudersound.com


 * Humour is essential in life. There are way too many people taking themselves far too seriously – and especially way too many bands taking themselves too seriously. I'm happy we've treasured the ability to write lyrics with tongue in cheek, and be able to laugh about ourselves. It's essential for our creativity, for us. But there's more behind it. It's very important for me to have some kind of humour in the lyrics to make sure we’re not religious preachers. We have a song like Resurrection By Erection. It’s obvious we’re not Catholic extremists. So that's why a certain slight humour will always be a part of Powerwolf.
 * Matthew Greywolf
 * Source: Powerwolf: "Too many bands take themselves too seriously!", loudersound.com


 * We write our music together. We don't work like most bands obviously do. We don't plan our music; we don't sit down and elaborate our riffs and vocal lines. In Powerwolf, songs must "happen" – which means we write our songs quite spontaneously. Someone has a basic idea and then we start playing. It often happens, that we write a song in not more than half an hour. It needs a certain magic, which you can't invoke or plan, it just has to happens.
 * Falk Maria Schlegel
 * Source: Interview with Falk Maria Schlegel, Powerwolf (April 27, 2005), powerofmetal.dk


 * I do respect what they do, but as for me personally, I don't believe in dragons or wizards or whatever fuck, so it would be just ridiculous for me to write lyrics about wizards or something, so it never was a question to do something like that, because it's just not what comes out of our minds, so...
 * Matthew Greywolf (about other power metal bands)
 * Source: Powerwolf, Arseniy Harchenko, darkside.ru


 * It was several years ago that I confessed to Attila that I am a huge fan of rock and metal ballads. Attila confessed the same thing. So that day we both agreed to write such a ballad, no matter what. Yet that was in the past and we felt we weren't ready for it yet. When we started to write Sacrament Of Sin, we decided that the album would contain more of a variation of songs. We also took on a more open-minded song writing process. We felt that this was the moment, this was the right time to write such a ballad. The thing is it takes the right song title, the right mood, the right melody and the right topic to write a ballad. Regardless, it was the right time to write the ballad and it’s one of the highlights of the album.
 * Matthew Greywolf
 * Source: INTERVIEW: Matthew Greywolf – Powerwolf, distortedsoundmag.com