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.

Song lyrics

Return in Bloodred (2005)

Come to me
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
- Son of the Morning Star

Lupus Dei (2007)

A martyr dies for Jesus Christ
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
- Prayer in the Dark

At night I'm dressed as lover
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?
- Saturday Satan

Stay; Better start to pray
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
- Behind the Leathermask

At night in the forest of Sabrod
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
- Tiger of Sabrod

Bible of the Beast (2009)

We conquer the land
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
- Raise Your Fist, Evangelist

Raise your horns
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
- Catholic in the Morning... Satanist at Night

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

Resurrection by erection
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

The devil and the maiden
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
- Resurrection by Erection

Satan is alive, Satan is alive
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
- Midnight Messiah

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

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

Blood of the Saints (2011)

And we all
Die, die, die tonight
Sanctified with dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
Hallelujah!
- Sanctified With Dynamite

Oh mother God we hold the sword in holy times
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
- We Drink Your Blood

He must have done it alone
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
- Murder at Midnight

When we come near don't hide in your bed
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
- Dead Boys Don't Cry

Tonight alone you're riding
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
- Son of a Wolf

You can hide and start the run
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!
- Night of the Werewolves

Preachers of the Night (2013)

When the night is cold and black, we sing Amen and Attack
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!
- Amen & Attack

We pray all our lives until we die in the end
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
- Secrets of the Sacristy

We are the dark of the night
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
- Sacred & Wild

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

Blessed & Possessed (2015)

And we die by the sword
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
- Blessed & Possessed

Stand up all the Night and call the Fight
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
- Army of the Night

We hail the cross and we kill by the bible
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
- Armata Strigoi

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

Let there be night
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

The Sacrament of Sin (2018)

And we bring fire, sing fire
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
- Fire & Forgive

And when your sleep is haunted in the night
Girl 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 cross
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
- Killers with the Cross

Rise over the dead, bring us ahead, incense and iron
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
- Incense and Iron

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

Commit the sacrament of sin, in for the kill
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
- The Sacrament of Sin

We are the cursed we came from fire and ice
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
- 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

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