Lupus Dei

Lupus Dei
A red wolf with his hands clasped together praying, the Powerwolf logo and the words "LUPUS DEI" in white text stained with red blood along the bottom.
Studio album by
Powerwolf
Released7 May 2007
RecordedJanuary 2007
StudioSU2 Studio in Illingen, Germany
Genre
Length43:31
Language
  • English
  • Latin
LabelMetal Blade Records (Europe)
ProducerFredrik Nordström
Powerwolf studio album chronology
Return in Bloodred
(2005) 		Lupus Dei
(2007) 		Bible of the Beast
(2009)
Singles from Lupus Dei
  1. "In Blood We Trust"
    Released: 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Metal.de[1]
Musikreviews.de[2]

Lupus Dei (Latin for Wolf of God) is the second 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 the 12th-century Deutschherrenkapelle chapel in Saarbrücken. The band also used a 30-piece choir on the songs "In Blood We Trust" and "Lupus Dei".[3] In a May 2007 interview[4] 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.[4]

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", boldly claiming that he and other werewolves went to Hell to fight the Devil.

  1. ^ sagt, T. "Powerwolf – Lupus Dei Review • metal.de". metal.de. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Powerwolf: Lupus Dei (Review/Kritik) – Album-Rezension (Heavy Metal)". musikreviews.de. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Powerwolf Set To Release Sophomore Album, "Lupus Dei"". Metal Underground. Retrieved 23 October 2007.
  4. ^ a b Patrick (May 2007). "Interview – Powerwolf". Lords of Metal. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2017.