POWERWOLF

Power Metal / Heavy Metal • Germany

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Powerwolf is a German power metal/heavy metal band, formed by the brothers Charles and Matthew Greywolf, the band spent a lot of time doing nothing until they met up with a Romanian vocalist called Attila Dorn. Attila Dorn came from a classical background, when he met up with the Greywolf brothers he expressed an interest in metal and followed them back to Germany which is when Powerwolf took off.

The band released their first album in April 2005, entitled Return in Bloodred. In 2007 they release Lupus Dei and finally in 2009 they released Bible of the Beast.

Powerwolf were influenced by 1980's metal acts such as ozzy, Accept, Venom and Mercyful Fate.

They are signed to Metal Blade Records whom expressed an interest when they heard a German group was working with a Romanian classical singer to create a metal group.

The line up is as follows: Attila Dorn read more...

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POWERWOLF Discography

POWERWOLF albums / top albums

POWERWOLF Return in Bloodred album cover

3.69 | 9 ratings

Return in Bloodred
Heavy Metal 2005

4.11 | 10 ratings

Lupus Dei
Power Metal 2007

POWERWOLF Bible of the Beast album cover

4.39 | 10 ratings

Bible of the Beast
Power Metal 2009

POWERWOLF Blood Of The Saints album cover

4.16 | 10 ratings

Blood Of The Saints
Power Metal 2011

POWERWOLF Preachers Of The Night album cover

4.33 | 8 ratings

Preachers Of The Night
Power Metal 2013

POWERWOLF Blessed & Possessed album cover

4.34 | 6 ratings

Blessed & Possessed
Power Metal 2015

POWERWOLF The Sacrament of Sin album cover

4.58 | 7 ratings

The Sacrament of Sin
Power Metal 2018

4.50 | 4 ratings

Call of the Wild
Power Metal 2021

POWERWOLF EPs & splits

POWERWOLF Wolfsnaechte 2012 Tour EP album cover

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Wolfsnaechte 2012 Tour EP
Power Metal 2011

POWERWOLF The Rockhard Sacrament album cover

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The Rockhard Sacrament
Power Metal 2013

POWERWOLF Wolfsnächte 2015 Tour EP album cover

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Wolfsnächte 2015 Tour EP
Power Metal 2015

POWERWOLF live albums

POWERWOLF Alive in the Night album cover

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Alive in the Night
Power Metal 2012

POWERWOLF demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

POWERWOLF re-issues & compilations

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Trinity in Black
Power Metal 2011

POWERWOLF The History of Heresy I (2004 - 2008) album cover

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The History of Heresy I (2004 - 2008)
Power Metal 2014

POWERWOLF singles (1)

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Amen & Attack
Power Metal 2013

POWERWOLF movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)

POWERWOLF Reviews

POWERWOLF The Sacrament of Sin

Album · 2018 · Power Metal

Warthur

Powerwolf's Sacrament of Sin finds the gradual dialling up of the symphonic influences on their music suddenly spiking, creating a style of bombastic church organ symphonic power metal which is exactly as ridiculous as their "priests and choirboys by day, werewolves and vampires by night" gimmick merits. Powerwolf are a pure fun band by this point (and indeed arguably they weren't ever anything else), but there's a sheer turn-it-up-to-11 bombast here which you kind of have to respect. So long as they can keep cranking that dial up bit by bit and still produce something which sounds fun and energetic, Powerwolf will have my attention.

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POWERWOLF Blessed & Possessed

Album · 2015 · Power Metal

Warthur

Blessed and Possessed finds Powerwolf leaning into the cheesier side of their sound even more - more choirs, more bombast, and more power metal in that cheesy Rhapsody/Gloryhammer vein. It's another sidestep away from their trad-metal roots, but after several albums which worked more or less the same formula evolving their sound a little was the right call, and pushing further into the distinctive aspects of their sound rather than retreating to their trad metal roots was likewise probably the sensible way to jump. If you are not amenable to their schtick, this isn't the album to win you around, but given the scarcity of power metal bands delving into darker themes, at least their gimmicks offers a novel twist on this particular sound.

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POWERWOLF Preachers Of The Night

Album · 2013 · Power Metal

Warthur

How many times can Powerwolf repeat the same basic idea of heretical werewolves posing as Catholic faithful by day and unleashing Satanic mayhem by night? Well, if Preachers of the Night is anything to go by, the answer to that one is "at least five times". This doesn't represent any radical shift in direction from the preceding Blood of the Saints, but it does present a further refinement and a continued blending of operatic and symphonic touches into a solid power metal bedrock, dialling up the use of the choir appreciably to better give the sense of church music hijacked to Hellish ends.

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POWERWOLF Blood Of The Saints

Album · 2011 · Power Metal

Warthur

Largely continues the approach of Bible of the Beast, with perhaps a pinch more influence from symphonic metal - take, for instance, the operatic approach of Ira Sancti (When the Saints Are Going Wild), where the lyrics (interspersed with a Romanian translation of the Lord's Prayer) take on a chant-like tenor in Attila Dorn's delivery as the band make as big of a sound as they can muster without actually calling on the services of an orchestra. (In this case, the keyboards of Falk Maria Schlegel perform a particularly important job in adding that little extra bit of texture.) I think I prefer Bible of the Beast to this one, but this isn't much worse than that - it's just a bit more of the same.

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POWERWOLF Bible of the Beast

Album · 2009 · Power Metal

Warthur

The third Powerwolf album finds their aesthetic, style, and band mythology appreciably coalescing. The idea now is fairly clear: the band are telling the legends of a heretical sect of werewolves who are Catholics by day, Satanists by night, and so are caught up in the interior conflict between their natures. It's pretty standard gothic horror stuff, bound up in a power metal style which draws significantly from traditional metal and has smatterings of symphonic metal musically whilst delving into black metal topics (in an early Mercyful Fate/King Diamond metal opera sort of way) lyrically. Is it very silly? Yes it is. Is it awesome? Yes, yes it most certainly is.