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This Friday, 16th July 2021, the high priests of heavy metal – POWERWOLF – will continue their unique
success story and release their long awaited new studio album Call Of The Wild!
In anticipation of the event, friend and fan of POWERWOLF, Trivium singer Matthew Kiichi Heafy has recorded an impressive version of the song ‘Fist By Fist (Sacralize Or Strike)’. The new version of the rousing track seamlessly follows the class of the original, and underlines POWERWOLF‘s international power of impact.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/qwTwW3w7f4c
The song will be featured on the exclusive bonus album Missa Cantorem, which will be included in
various Call Of The Wild formats. A simultaneously exciting and entertaining journey through the
band’s success story, sung by friends and companions of POWERWOLF.
Matthew Kiichi Heafy states: “It is a tremendous honor to be able to do my rendition of the fantastic ‘Fist By Fist’ by the mighty POWERWOLF. POWERWOLF has been one of my favorite bands for ages, so this is a privilege of the highest caliber.”
Once again created in cooperation with the honorable producer duo of Jens Bogren and Joost van den Broek, the masterpiece will open a new chapter in the band’s history on 16th July 2021. The eighth studio album will serve both old and newly recruited POWERWOLF devotees with well-known classic trademarks, and equally surprise and delight them at every stage of this wild 11-track ride.
Matthew Greywolf comments on Call Of The Wild: “With Call Of The Wild, we are opening a new, exciting chapter in the history of POWERWOLF. The album sounds unmistakably like POWERWOLF and is so much more at the same time: Besides new territory like the Celtic instrumentation in ‘Blood for Blood (Faoladh)’ or the ballad like ‘Alive or Undead’ we have raised all our trademarks to a new level. Until now, we never sounded so powerful and wild – in the truest sense of the word. We can’t wait to finally share this beast of an album with you all!”
The first music video from the new album for ‘Beast Of Gévaudan’ has already gained more than 1.3 million views on YouTube. Watch the outstanding video again here: https://youtu.be/po-u-V6GiEk
Pre-order Call Of The Wild here: https://powerwolf.napalmrecords.com/
Call Of The Wild, the follow-up to their 2018 number 1 charting studio album Sacrament Of Sin, manifests the band’s inimitable success story and proves once again that they sit unchallenged on the throne of the genre.
First enthusiastic press quotes on Call Of The Wild:
“Germany’s high-powered lycanthropes claw their way to world domination.” – Metal Hammer UK
“The packs mightiest howl so far!” – Sweden Rock
“CALL OF THE WILD is not only strong as usual and offers everything you love the band for, but also impresses with various strong surprises in terms of sound, energy and lyrical concept” – Metal Hammer Germany
“Call Of The Wild puts a diamond-studded crown on the pack’s output to date!” – Rock It! –
“A really strong album, with which POWERWOLF – as assuredly as you’d hear ‘Amen’ said in church – will place themselves at the top of the charts again in July.” – Rock Hard Germany
“Any way you slice it – the music of Powerwolf is inexplicably catchy” – Aardschok
Call Of The Wild track-listing:
01. Faster Than the Flame
02. Beast of Gévaudan
03. Dancing with the Dead
04. Varcolac
05. Alive or Undead
06. Blood for Blood (Faoladh)
07. Glaubenskraft
08. Call of the Wild
09. Sermon of Swords
10. Undress to Confess
11. Reverent of Rats
Various formats (2-CD Mediabook, 3-LP Vinyl Box, 3-CD Earbook, digital) of the new album include the bonus album Missa Cantorem – a cross-section of the Wolves‘ success story with newly recorded vocals by friends and companions of the band.
Missa Cantorem (bonus album) track-listing:
01. Sanctified With Dynamite – feat. Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear)
02. Demons Are A Girl‘s Best Friend – feat. Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy)
03. Nightside Of Siberia – feat. Johan Hegg (Amon Amarth)
04. Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone – feat. Doro Pesch
05. Fist By Fist (Sacralize Or Strike) – feat. Matthew Kiichi Heafy (Trivium)
06. Killers With The Cross – feat. Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork)
07. Kiss Of The Cobra King – feat. Chris Harms (Lord Of The Lost)
08. We Drink Your Blood – feat. Johannes Eckerström (Avatar)
09. Resurrection By Erection – feat. Christopher Bowes (Alestorm)
10. Saturday Satan – feat. Jari Mäenpää (Wintersun)
2021 marks not only the return of the wolves, but also the return of the heavy metal community to the legendary fields of Wacken. What could be a better setting to celebrate the first holy metal mass under the sign of Call Of The Wild than a headline show at the Bullhead City Festival in Wacken
POWERWOLF headline show:
16.09. – 18.09.21 DE – Wacken / Bullhead City
On their upcoming tour, fans can not only expect brand new heavy metal anthems to be played and chanted along by thousands, but also the biggest and most epic production POWERWOLF has brought to the stage thus far, once again cementing their status as one of the most intense live bands.
“Wolfsnächte” 2021 tour dates:
01.10.21 DE – Stuttgart / Schleyerhalle
02.10.21 CH – Zurich / Samsung Hall
04.10.21 ES – Barcelona / Razzmatazz
05.10.21 ES – Madrid / Riviera
07.10.21 FR – Paris / Zenith
08.10.21 UK – London / Roundhouse
09.10.21 BE – Antwerp / Lotto Arena
10.10.21 NL – Amsterdam / Afas Live
12.10.21 IT – Milan / Alcatraz
13.10.21 DE – Frankfurt / Jahrhunderthalle
15.10.21 DE – Munich / Zenith
16.10.21 DE – Oberhausen / König Pilsener Arena
17.10.21 CZ – Prague / Tipsport Arena
18.10.21 PL – Katowice – MCK
20.10.21 HU – Budapest / Arena
21.10.21 AT – Vienna / Gasometer
22.10.21 DE – Berlin / UFO im Velodrom
23.10.21 DE – Saarbrücken / Saarlandhalle
ABOUT POWERWOLF:
The story of POWERWOLF, beginning in 2004, reads like a true fairytale, but is the result of the most hard-working and entertaining live band on the heavy metal planet. POWERWOLF has not only received plenty of Gold and Platinum awards to date, but numerous releases have entered the official German album charts at the top position of #1. With Blessed & Possessed (2015), POWERWOLF achieved Gold status (in the Czech Republic) for the first time, while its predecessor, Preachers Of The Night (2013), hit the official German album charts at #1, and the incredible DVD, The Metal Mass (2016), came in at #1 of the German DVD-Charts. POWERWOLF‘s holy mass in the name of heavy metal is unstoppable – their latest magnum opus, The Sacrament of Sin (2018), again entered the album charts at #1. The accompanying, almost completely sold out Wolfsnächte headline tour – in which POWERWOLF headlined large venues with their phenomenal stage performances – became a single major triumph, as well as the numerous summer festival shows in which crowds were thrilled and completely captivated by the wolves and their unique, (un)holy metal mass. With the new studio album, Call Of The Wild, and the Wolfsnächte 2021 tour charging through the largest halls in Europe, 2021 will again be a year completely under the sign of the wolf pack!
POWERWOLF are:
Attila Dorn – vocals
Falk Maria Schlegel – organ
Charles Greywolf – guitar
Matthew Greywolf – guitar
Roel van Helden – drums
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