This is a list of songs having lyrics in Latin.
This list contains songs that are performed in Latin by the named performers. Songs that sample other recorded music in Latin do not become eligible only by virtue of that sampling. Songs with only a Latin refrain are also excluded.
Almost all Catholic liturgical music composed before the middle of the 20th century, including literally thousands of settings of the ordinary of the mass (Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei), the ordinary and proper of the Requiem mass, psalms, canticles (such as the Magnificat), antiphons, and motets. Famous examples include:
Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B Minor, four Missae, Magnificat, cantata BWV 191
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus, Requiem
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana, Meum est propositum in taberna mori
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli
Antonio Vivaldi – Nulla in mundo pax sincera
The libretto for the opera-oratorio Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky is in Latin.
Hymns and carols
"Adeste Fideles"
"Boar's Head Carol"
"Gaudeamus Igitur", also known as De Brevitate Vitae
"Gaudete"
"Gloria Tibi Domine"
"Io Vivat"
"Tempus Adest Floridum"
"Veni, Veni, Emmanuel"
Sarah Brightman – In Paradisum
Die Irrlichter – Totus Floreo, Cantum Corvi, Angelus ad Virginem, Orientes Partibus, Puer Nobis Nascitur, Gaudete
Garmarna – Euchari, O Viridissima Virga, O Frondens Virga
Ougenweide – Totus Floreo, Terra Sinus Aperit, Gaudete
Steeleye Span – Gaudete †
After Forever- Mea Culpa,Leaden Legacy
Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem
Evanescence – Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum
Subway to Sally - Ad Mortem Festinamus
Ghost Bc - "Infestissumam"
Whitechapel – Articulo Mortis, Ear to Ear
Iced Earth – In Sacred Flames
Helloween – Lavdate Dominvm
maudlin of the Well – The Ferryman
Deathspell Omega – Obombration, First Prayer, Malign Paradigm
Death SS – Black Mass
Epica:
The Phantom Agony: Adyta (The Neverending Embrace – Prelude), Facade of Reality, Illusive Consensus, "The Phantom Agony"
Consign to Oblivion: Hunab K’u (A New Age Dawns), Dance of Fate, The Last Crusade (A New Age Dawns Part I), Consign to Oblivion (A New Age Dawns Part III)
The Divine Conspiracy: Indigo (Prologue), The Obsessive Devotion, Living a Lie (The Embrace that Smothers Part VIII), Fools of Damnation (The Embrace that Smothers Part IX), The Divine Conspiracy
Design Your Universe: Samadhi (Prelude), Resign to Surrender (A New Age Dawns Part IV), Martyr of the Free World, Kingdom of Heaven (A New Age Dawns Part V), Design Your Universe (A New Age Dawns Part IV)
Requiem for the Indifferent: Karma, Monopoly on Truth, Internal Warfare, Requiem for the Indifferent, Guilty Demeanor
The Quantum Enigma: "Originem","The Second Stone","The Quantum Enigma:Kingdom Of Heaven II"
The Holographic Principle: "Eidola","Tear Down Your Walls","The Holographic Principle:A Profound Understanding Of Reality"
Ex Deo:
Romulus: Cruor Nostri Abbas, Cry Havoc, In Her Dark Embrace, Invictus, Storm the Gates of Alesia
Caligvla: Once Were Romans, Per Oculos Aquila, Pollice Verso
Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
My Dying Bride – Sear Me
Necrodeath – Mater Tenebrarum
Nemesea – Threefold Law, Empress, Mortalitas Part II: Dies Irae, Mortalitas Part III: Moriendum Tibi Est
Rotting Christ – Gloria De Domino Inferni, Non Serviam,Fethroestoria, Ira Incensus, Aeternus, In Domine Satana, Ad Noctis
Rhapsody - Ira Tenax, Agony Is My Name
Slechtvalk – In paradisum
In Extremo – Totus Floreo, Stella Splendens, Omnia Sol Temperat *
Kamelot – Memento Mori, March of Mephisto, Manus Dei, Veritas, Citizen Zero, Interlude I (Opiate Soul), The Edge of Paradise
Knorkator – Aeger sum
Krypteria:
Liberatio: Liberatio
In Medias Res: Victoriam Speramus, No More Lies, Quae Laetitia, Always and Forever
Bloodangel's Cry: The Promise
All Beauty Must Die: Liberatio 2011
Powerwolf - Lupus Daemonis, Prayer In The Dark, When The Moon Shines Red, Lupus Dei, Opening: Prelude To Purgatory, Raise Your Fist, Evangelist, Moscow After Dark, Catholic In The Morning... Satanist At Night, Werewolves Of Armenia, We Take The Church By Storm, St. Satan's Day, Opening: Agnus Dei, Sanctified With Dynamite, We Drink Your Blood, All We Need Is Blood, Dead Boys Don't Cry, Son of a Wolf, Night Of The Werewolves, Die, Die, Crucified, Ira Sancti (When The Saints Are Going Wild), Amen & Attack, Secrets of the Sacristy, Coleus Sanctus, Sacred & Wild, Kreuzfeuer, Cardinal Sin, In the Name of God (Deus Vult), Nochnoi Dozor, Lust for Blood, Extatum et Oratum, Last of the Living Dead
Rhapsody of Fire – Ira Tenax, Epicus Furor, In Tenebris, Dark Secret-Ira Divina
Sabaton – Wehrmacht (only refrain in Latin), Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus, Lion of the North, Resist and Bite
Tristania:
Widow's Weeds: Preludium, Evenfall, Postludium
Beyond the Veil: Beyond the Veil, Aphelion, Sequel of Decay, Opus Relinque, Lethean River
World of Glass: The Shining Path, Wormwood , Hatred Grows, Crushed Dreams
98° – Ave Maria
Kuroshitsuji Soundtrack Si Deus Me Relinquit
ABBA – The Piper
Alizée- Veni Vedi Vici
Abonos – Izlaz
Abruptum – De Profundis Mors Vas Consumet
Ace of Base – Happy Nation
Ataraxia – Maria Ceremoniale, Mundus Est Jocundum, Spiritus Ad Vindictam *
Bára Basiková – Veni Domine †
Bauhaus (band) – Stigmata Martyr
Patrick Cassidy – Vide Cor Meum *
Corvus Corax – Ante Casu Peccati (album, 1989), Inter Deum et Diabolum Semper Musica Est (album, 1993), Viator (album, 1998), Mille Anni Passi Sunt (album, 2000), Tritonus (album, 2004), Tempi Antiquii (album, 2004), Venus Vina Musica (album, 2006), Cantus Buranus II (album, 2008) *
Coven – Satanic Mass
The Cranberries – Electric Blue Eyes
D.Gray-man – Lala's Lullaby
Dargaard – Caverna Obscura, Ave Atque Vale, Thy Fleeing Time
Dark Sanctuary – Miserere
Die Irrlichter – Totus Floreo
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy - Canto Mortis - An Undocumented Battle, Cantata Mortis
Elfen Lied – Lillium
Dovetree – multiple song titles...
E Nomine – Das Testament (album), Schwarze Sonne (album) *
E Nomine – Das Testament (album), Himmel oder Holle (album) *
Electric Prunes – Mass in F Minor (album)
Enigma – Mea Culpa, Sadness
Enya – Pax Deorum, Tempus Vernum, Afer Ventus, Cursum perficio *
Era – The Mass
Erasure - Gaudete
Estampie – Ave generosa, Stella splendens *
European anthem (unofficial)
Faith and the Muse – Cantus, Chorus of the Furies
Finisterra – Totus Floreo
Franco Battiato – Delenda Carthago
Fullmetal Alchemist – Lapis Philosophorum
Globus – Preliator, Diem Ex Dei
Haggard – Pestilencia
HAL Laboratory – Super Smash Bros. Brawl main theme
Helium Vola – Omnis Mundi Creatura, Omnia Sol Temperat, Nummus, Veni Veni *
Highland – Bella Stella
H. P. Lovecraft - Gloria Patria
I Am Ghost – The Denouement
Industrial Monk – Magnificat *
Itou Kanako - Lamento
Jacula – Praesentia Domini
Yuki Kajiura – Salva Nos
Kronos – Magica Europa, Party's (Partius?) Deorum
Lacrimas Profundere – Priamus
Lesiem – Fortitudo, Caritas, Fundamentum, Justitia, Invidia, Una terra, Occultum, Vivere, Liberta, Mater Gloria, Veni Creator Spiritus, Lacrimosa, Floreat, In Taberna Mori, Ave Fortuna, Agnus Dei, Pater Patriae, Navigator, Africa, Roma, Britannia, Coloris, Aureus, Diva, Paradisus, Poeta, Humilitas, Temperantia, Fides, Patientia, Spes, Prudentia, Vanitas, Bonitas *
Libera – Gaudete, Sacris Solemnis, Sempiterna, Sanctus, Ave Maria, Recordare, Locus Iste, Stabat, Luminosa, Agnus Dei, Sancta, Angelis, Lux Aeterna, Ave Verum
Magic Kingdom – Metallic Tragedy
Mama Ladilla – Cunnilingus post mortem Fortitudo '
Mecano - No es Serio este Cementerio
Mediaeval Baebes – Salva Nos, Gaudete, Ecce Mundi Gaudium, Miseria Nomine, Verbum Caro, Veni, Veni *
Alan Menken - Hellfire
The Misfits – Halloween II
Mr. Mister - "Kyrie"
My Ruin – Momento Mori
Kumiko Noma – Lilium (Elfen Lied)
Rona Nishliu – Suus
Rosenstolz – Amo Vitam
Sinéad O'Connor – Regina caeli, O filii et filiae
Origa – Inner Universe
Qntal – Ad mortem festinamus, Flamma, Omnis mundi illuminate, Stella splendens *
Yoko Shimomura – Somnus
Simon and Garfunkel – Benedictus
Sopor Aeternus – Modela est
Cat Stevens – O Caritas
The Association - Requiem for the Masses
The Streets – Memento Mori
Tanzwut – Toccato, Caupona, Fatue
Theatre of tragedy – Venus
This Ascension – Gloria in Excelsis
Ticklish Brother – Ficos et Olivas
Tura Satana (band) – Omnia Vinat Amor
U2 – Gloria
Nobuo Uematsu – Advent: One-Winged Angel, Divinity, Liberi Fatali, One-Winged Angel, Yakusoku no chi ~The Promised Land~
Unto Ashes – Quid Vides, Estuans Interius *
Rufus Wainwright – Agnus Dei
Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque
Akiko Shikata – HOLLOW, Agnus Dei
Haruka Shimotsuki – Key of Paradise
Keiki Kobayashi – The Unsung War (Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War)
Paul Mottram – Tempestus
Jesper Kyd - Apocalypse
* These artists have recorded a significant body of work in Latin. Titles given are representative or well known.
† This symbol indicates a hit single.
The early music ensemble Rondellus has performed acoustic renditions of Black Sabbath songs in Latin.
Dr. Jukka Ammondt has performed a number of songs by Elvis Presley translated into Latin.
