Released May 7, 2007 Artist Powerwolf Producer Fredrik Nordström Genres Heavy metal, Power metal | Length 43:31 Release date 7 May 2007 Label Metal Blade Records | |
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Recorded January 2007 at SU2 Studio in Illingen, Germany Lupus Dei
(2007) Bible of the Beast
(2009) Similar Powerwolf albums, Heavy metal albums | ||
Powerwolf lupus dei full album
Lupus Dei (Latin for Wolf of God) is the second full-length studio album by German power metal band Powerwolf. In addition to recording at Woodhouse Studios, Germany, the band recorded some parts of the album in an undisclosed 12th-century chapel. The band also used a 30-piece choir on the songs "In Blood We Trust" and "Lupus Dei".
Contents
In a May 2007 interview with Lords of Metal, Matthew Greywolf talked about the story in Lupus Dei:
Well, generally 'Lupus Dei' is focussed on parables taken out of the Bible and set in context to our passion for metal. Finally it had turned out being a real concept album with the wolf himself as the protagonist. In the Introduction to the album he loses faith in good and descends to the evil. He doesn't believe in anything but blood anymore ("In blood we trust") – but during the album he realizes the light of God step by step and finally in the title track he experiences God.
The title of the album may be a reference to the story of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, a Livonian man who lived in Jürgensburg, Swedish Livonia, in 1692 and publicly admitted being a werewolf, referring to himself as "The Hound of God", claiming that he and other werewolves went to Hell to fight the Devil.
Powerwolf lupus dei
Personnel
Songs
1Lupus Daemonis1:17
2We Take It From the Living4:03
3Prayer in the Dark4:20