Powerwolf

thumb|Powerwolf at Rockharz Open Air 2018 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. Song lyrics Return in Bloodred (2005) thumb|Come to meInto my arms and seeThere is no God too fearLucifer is nearWalk with meInto the light and seeNo way will be to farSon of the Morning Star Come to meInto my arms and seeThere is no God too fearLucifer is nearWalk with meInto the light and seeNo way will be to farSon of the Morning Star Son of the Morning Star Lupus Dei (2007) thumb|Stay; Better start to prayKilling time todayFeel the war inside yourselfAnd burn them all awayLeather hides my faceBlood is on my traceUntil the end of days A martyr dies for Jesus ChristThe altar burning as the demons riseThe word defied. The crucifiedThe sermon spoken on a bloodred nightThe holy whore they're fighting forLike lambs to slaughter in a bible war Prayer in the Dark At night I'm dressed as loverI praise the morning starGood evening little ladyCome join me in my carI am the one you'll come toA wolf in his best disguiseDon't say they never told youThe evil... evil never dies? Saturday Satan Stay; Better start to prayKilling time todayFeel the war inside yourselfAnd burn them all awayLeather hides my faceBlood is on my traceUntil the end of days Behind the Leathermask At night in the forest of SabrodA tiger in search of his preyI wonder will we be aliveBy the dawning of day?Predator of godly creationIn hunger he stops at no childObsessed by the fever to followThe call of the wild Tiger of Sabrod Bible of the Beast (2009) thumb|We are the bloodred fiveNever come aloneWe are wolves against the worldWe keep the storm aliveWe are made of stoneForever wolves against the world We conquer the landThe bible in handThe glory of war and praiseAre you praying for the final grace?With power and prideAnd God on our sideWe follow the holy wayStand and scream for all the world today Raise Your Fist, Evangelist Raise your hornsThe volume to the rightHeavy in the morningMetal in the nightAll we pray, for metal we will dieMetal in the morningMetal in the night Catholic in the Morning... Satanist at Night Pay to prayInquisition dayBetray no religionBreak the chainSanctify your soul We Take the Church by Storm Resurrection by erectionRaise your phallus to the sky and you never dieIt's resurrection by erectionWhen you wake up from the dead, then the angels give you headHallelujah, resurrection Resurrection by Erection The devil and the maidenPrepare for going wildThe new messiah callingThe purgatory childBefore my flesh is fadingThe virgin has a turnThe third of days we're climbing, the point of no return Resurrection by Erection Satan is alive, Satan is aliveBut now the saviour has arrivedMessiah, messiah, I fight in your commandMessiah, messiah, my life is in your handSon of Nazareth, we hail your nameTo the end of time we raise your flame Midnight Messiah Sacrilege, fire, murder and rapeNightmare and torment ariseBurn on the pyre, find no escapeNow the time for dominatorAll we need todayFor hell we pray St. Satan's Day We are the bloodred fiveNever come aloneWe are wolves against the worldWe keep the storm aliveWe are made of stoneForever wolves against the world Wolves Against the World Blood of the Saints (2011) thumb|And we allDie, die, die tonightSanctified with dynamiteDie, die, dynamiteHallelujah! And we allDie, die, die tonightSanctified with dynamiteDie, die, dynamiteHallelujah! Sanctified With Dynamite Oh mother God we hold the sword in holy timesWe are the war, we never see the lightThe order call, we all will take more human wineAnd we toast to the nightWe fold our hands, we keep the bible in our mindsOh father God, we are the hordes of CainAnd though you run we will take you and we findAny type, any vein We Drink Your Blood He must have done it aloneHe is a master of hiding, and he left not a traceAnd by the moonlight saw the goat shape of his faceHe got an interrogation and they tried hard to break him but it couldn't be proovedThe only trace they ever found was cloven hooved Murder at Midnight When we come near don't hide in your bedOne night in hell and you wake up undeadDead when the day, alive in the nightGone with the morning horizonDon't you dare say, the dead you adoreWhen you decide you can't take any morePhantoms we are, and lonesome we rideInto the dark of the night Dead Boys Don't Cry Tonight alone you're ridingOnto the other sideYour might untold and waitingBoy you'll be the final lightYour mother fought the demonsYour brother saw the lightAnd now we pray the unbornYou and I can't stay alive Son of a Wolf You can hide and start the runWhen the seventh night has comeAnd you realize the markAre you taken all aloneHoly Christ in flesh and bonePray, the werewolves left the arkSee it's not a sermon, they can't call me backAnd when the moon is high, we call the pack – we attack! Night of the Werewolves Preachers of the Night (2013) thumb|When the night is cold and black, we sing Amen and AttackAnd we lead the storm of the wild!Be the wildest of the pack, screaming Amen and AttackAnd we fight with God on our side! When the night is cold and black, we sing Amen and AttackAnd we lead the storm of the wild!Be the wildest of the pack, screaming Amen and AttackAnd we fight with God on our side! Amen & Attack We pray all our lives until we die in the endHaleluja amenThe weight of the cross when to hell we descendHaleluja amenWe write our fate in testamentsWe sign the words with bloodUnite the sky the requiem of God Secrets of the Sacristy We are the dark of the nightWe are the sermon of fightWe bring the nightside sacred and wildWe are the demons of lightThe holy word you can't fightWe bring the nightside sacred and wildFight, fight, sacred and wild Sacred & Wild They call him Cardinal SinIn the nightCardinal SinBlind in lightThey locked him in for cardinal sinAt midnight he came to kill Cardinal Sin Blessed & Possessed (2015) thumb|Let there be nightGod bless the father, the sonLet there be nightAnd day be goneLet there be nightThe mass of dark has begunLet there be nightAnd damn the sun And we die by the swordUndead life our rewardAnd we carry our lust all aloneTo the bible we're swornIn desire transformWe're not blessedWhen undressed to the bone Blessed & Possessed Stand up all the Night and call the FightLet your Mind go wild before the LightHere we come the Army of the NightMater MariaLined up Side by Side and bound to praySent to die and fight the Final DayArmy of the Night – we came to stayMater Maria Army of the Night We hail the cross and we kill by the bibleFor seven sins are defined to deployAlong the front of Moldavian strikersArmata strigoiWe pray for mercy of Mater MariaThe sacred lie who gave birth to the boyWe drink the blood of the fallen believerArmata Strigoi Armata Strigoi Ten thousand men died for Christ and combatGone as mighty crusaders and never came backAscend to heaven for Christ and combatIn remembrance of the dark Christ & Combat Let there be nightGod bless the father, the sonLet there be nightAnd day be goneLet there be nightThe mass of dark has begunLet there be nightAnd damn the sun Let There Be Night The Sacrament of Sin (2018) thumb|Rise over the dead, bring us ahead, incense and ironFight all of the night, banners up high to the top of the landRight into the red, all you can get, incense and ironStand, follow the fight, doing the right as we come to defend And we bring fire, sing fireScream fire and forgiveForgiven the liar, by fire we liveWe bring fire, sing fireScream fire and forgiveThe last of our blood we will give Fire & Forgive And when your sleep is haunted in the nightGirl don't you dare to seek for candle light'Cause in the dark, your demons come as carnal dynamite Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend In the night came the killers with the crossIn the light of the moon when our lives are lostIn the dark when your blood is callingIn the dusk when the fever's crawlingIn the night came the killers with the cross Killers with the Cross Rise over the dead, bring us ahead, incense and ironFight all of the night, banners up high to the top of the landRight into the red, all you can get, incense and ironStand, follow the fight, doing the right as we come to defend Incense and Iron And he who comes too late in life for the hurried prayerHas sown the devil's seed, the pestilenceSpewing out his soul, a wolf who never sleepsIn the lord God's strong arms Und wer im Leben kommt zu spät zum StossgebetDer hat des Teufels Saat, die Pestilenz gesätSpeit sich die Seele aus, ein Wolf, der niemals schläftIn des Herrgotts starken Armen Stossgebet Commit the sacrament of sin, in for the killThe sacrament of sin, for the sin is my willSacrament of sin, believe it or fallAll the night NeanderthalConfess the sacrament of sin, mistress or wifeSacrament of sin, lead a sinister lifeSacrament of sin, desire to callStand up high when cloth will fall The Sacrament of Sin We are the cursed we came from fire and iceWe are the first to kill the sinner for liesWe are the blessed, we crave the venom of Venus for lifeAll our lifeWe are the sword we tame the fire, the flameWe hail the lord we fear no rebel, no painWe are possessed we have the venom of Venus in veins 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 External links Powerwolf Official website Category:German bands Category:Power metal