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Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin



8.1 | 213 votes |
Release date: 20 July 2018
Style: Power metal

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Disc I
01. Fire & Forgive
02. Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend
03. Killers With The Cross
04. Incense And Iron
05. Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone
06. Stossgebet
07. Nightside Of Siberia
08. The Sacrament Of Sin
09. Venom Of Venus
10. Nighttime Rebel
11. Fist By Fist (Sacralize Or Strike)
12. Midnight Madonna [bonus]

Disc II [Communio Lupatum]
01. Epica - Sacred & Wild
02. Saltatio Morti - We Drink Your Blood
03. Caliban - Kiss Of The Cobra King
04. Battle Beast - Resurrection By Erection
05. Heaven Shall Burn - Night Of The Werewolves
06. Kadavar - The Evil Made Me Do It
07. Kissin' Dynamite - Let There Be Night
08. Mille Petrozza with Marc Görtz - Amen & Attack
09. Amaranthe - Army Of The Night
10. Eluveitie - When The Saints Are Going Wild

Disc III [The Symphony Of Sin]
01. Fire & Forgive [orchestral version]
02. Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend [orchestral version]
03. Killers With The Cross [orchestral version]
04. Incense And Iron [orchestral version]
05. Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone [orchestral version]
06. Stossgebet [orchestral version]
07. Nightside Of Siberia [orchestral version]
08. The Sacrament Of Sin [orchestral version]
09. Venom Of Venus [orchestral version]
10. Nighttime Rebel [orchestral version]
11. Fist By Fist (Sacralize Or Strike) [orchestral version]
12. Midnight Madonna [bonus] [orchestral version]

The Best Power Metal Album Of 2018

Additional info
3-CD deluxe edition includes bonus track "Midnight Madonna" on first disc.
Second disc contains 10 Powerwolf songs performed by various artists.
Third disc contains orchestral versions of the songs on the first disc.

Staff review by
ScreamingSteelUS
Rating:
8.3
Powerwolf's lupo-hagio-crypto-satano-sacro-groovy power metal of the night has carved a fun niche for the band. The "German Catholic werewolves thing," as a friend of mine describes it, has a pleasingly dramatic flair, with all its organ-scored singalongs and Attila Dorn's stunning, operatic charisma. That wasn't enough to stop Powerwolf from dipping into realms below their potential on recent releases, but The Sacrament Of Sin pulls them back to a level more befitting their talents.

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published 17.07.2018 | Comments (1)

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20.07.2018 - 17:50
Rating: 9
AndreMarcos

Powerwolf being Powerwolf. But after a couple of listens i'm finding it to be their best album yet.
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20.07.2018 - 21:42
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
How do people not laugh when listening to this.
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I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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21.07.2018 - 05:37
Rating: 9
RyanKolp

Save maybe two songs, which even then weren't bad by any means, the whole album is incredible. Every song is catchy, memorable, and pure Powerwolf. What an effort.
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21.07.2018 - 09:17
Mark Ayoub

Does anyone know if the bonus track "Midnight Madonna" is a parody of their song "Midnight Messiah" or is it a erm.... lone wolf?
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23.07.2018 - 08:08
Rating: 7
Necrodamus

Incense and Iron is a great tune...love the folk metal swing to it. Could be a lot of fun live.
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23.07.2018 - 20:00
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Boxcar Willy on 20.07.2018 at 21:42

How do people not laugh when listening to this.


Better as many bands what likes to jump and play some non sence noise as many core bands
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23.07.2018 - 20:01
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Tage Westerlund
Album and band to love or hate it, decent PM parody tune whit some darker touch, somehow band come whit new album what sounds decent and don't gfo deep to pop as hmmm Battle Beast whit Noora goes
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24.07.2018 - 16:38
Polaria

So that's where half of Flowing Tears went, wtf
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Life is all the pain we endeavour.
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24.07.2018 - 19:11
Rating: 8
tominator
At best deranged
Very similar to Judas Priest's Firepower in terms of enjoyability for me. Very good album.
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31.07.2018 - 20:58
FYA
Destroyer
THe fact that Heaven Shall Burn and Caliban did covers for them is weird.
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01.08.2018 - 19:11
Polaria

Written by FYA on 31.07.2018 at 20:58

THe fact that Heaven Shall Burn and Caliban did covers for them is weird.

I had a good laugh with the cover featuring the singer from Kreator.
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02.08.2018 - 00:08
mikeprado30

Written by Bad English on 23.07.2018 at 20:01

Album and band to love or hate it, decent PM parody tune whit some darker touch, somehow band come whit new album what sounds decent and don't gfo deep to pop as hmmm Battle Beast whit Noora goes

IMHO that's precisely one of the strong points to consider Battle Beast a nice proposal into this genre (pop influences).

I will never understand why some people get bothered about the pop sound (even with the awful "artists" from nowadays). If that's used correctly, the results can go nicely.
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BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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02.08.2018 - 21:54
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Tage Westerlund
Written by mikeprado30 on 02.08.2018 at 00:08

Written by Bad English on 23.07.2018 at 20:01

Album and band to love or hate it, decent PM parody tune whit some darker touch, somehow band come whit new album what sounds decent and don't gfo deep to pop as hmmm Battle Beast whit Noora goes

IMHO that's precisely one of the strong points to consider Battle Beast a nice proposal into this genre (pop influences).

I will never understand why some people get bothered about the pop sound (even with the awful "artists" from nowadays). If that's used correctly, the results can go nicely.


Me to, its still good metal, pop sound us better as some modern extreme bands what can jump and scream and not get more as 50 ppl in a small local club.
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04.08.2018 - 14:19
Mark Ayoub

Written by Mark Ayoub on 21.07.2018 at 09:17

Does anyone know if the bonus track "Midnight Madonna" is a parody of their song "Midnight Messiah" or is it a erm.... lone wolf?


I'll answer my own question as I've learnt to use my ears - original non-parody
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14.08.2018 - 02:09
Rating: 6
kingeryck

Weakest album in a while. Demons are a girl's best friend & Incense And Iron are the only catchy songs.
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18.08.2018 - 02:19
Rating: 9
DeathMetal

I enjoyed this a lot more than expected. All the songs are catchy to me.
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01.01.2019 - 02:13
Rating: 9
Cobalto

Very good power metal \m/
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02.12.2019 - 14:18
Rating: 7
Mountain King
K i K o
Let's not change a formula that works. As a big fan of Power Metal, I can't get into this band and for obvious reasons. Their pop metal orientation towards teenage girls is not something I fancy a lot. They are unique yes, I enjoy some songs once every few moths but they tend to sound all sound the same on each song and album. It's one of those band where the singers sings the same tone and just rehashes the melody and words in the chorus to create another so called anthemic song. That's not to say that they are bad and I still enjoy the title track for example which is one of the few Power Metal songs on the album. Their live show is fun as well but I don't get why they are "so" famous.
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14.03.2020 - 15:47
Rating: 8
Metal Rasputin

I don't know if I should consider this some sort of guilty pleasure or not, since it's so basic uninspired mainstream power-pop-whatever-metal. But on the other hand it's very enjoyable and fun to listen to, especially the song "Killers With The Cross" which finally utilizes that nice organ sound mixed with distorted guitars. Sounds cool.
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29.04.2021 - 19:35
Rating: 8
fenchik

Their best album since Blood of the Saints!!
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10.05.2022 - 07:23
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
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08.05.2023 - 21:06
Rating: 10
Kulivlad

This is the peak of music and it cant get any better ever
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29.12.2023 - 05:11
Rating: 8
tintinb

This is highly entertaining. Thanks for the tantalizing video of Demon's are a girl's bestfriend.
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Leeches everywhere.
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