Powerwolf: The History of Heresy (2004 – 2008)

Metal Blade Records have gone all out to try to ensure that fans of the mighty Powerwolf get value for money from this compilation of the band's early material. The package in a box set containing:

Special sized hardcover box with embossment, faint laminated.

112-page hardcover book with liner notes, retrospective, tour and studio reports, all written by the band members. Loads of previously unpublished photos

Three cover sleeves

Lupus Dei CD including five live bonustracks

Return In Blood Red CD including three live bonus tracks

The Wacken Worship bonus DVD

Five photo cards with info on each band member

Clearly there's loads of stuff for the rabid fan boys out there and clearly, particularly in continental Europe there are quite a few as their last album topped the German charts. There's as much of the wolf here as any sane person could handle in one setting and it is a fabulous introduction to a band who could well be about to break out into popular consciousness (especially if they bothered to tour the UK.) Since getting my mitts on this one I have been incessantly listening to the studio and live versions of "Kiss of the Cobra King" but there are other tremendous gothic power metal winners all over the shop including a nice smattering of live versions of their other best tunes ("We Take It from the Living", "Prayer in the Dark", and "Saturday Satan" since you ask.) The whole package seems to be nicely priced as well, certainly in the UK, so there's really no excuse not to run with the pack.

Track Listing:

1. Mr Sinister
2. We Came to Take Your Souls
3. Kiss of the Cobra King
4. Black Mass Hysteria
5. Demons & Diamonds
6. Montecore
7. The Evil Made Me Do It
8. Lucifer in Starlight
9. Son of the Morning Star
10. Mr Sinister (Live)
11. We Came to Take Your Souls (Live)
12. Kiss of the Cobra King (Live)
13. Lupus Daemonis (Intro)
14. We Take It from the Living
15. Prayer in the Dark
16. Saturday Satan
17. In Bloody We Trust
18. Behind the Leathermask
19. Vampires Don't Die
20. When the Moon Shines Red
21. Mother Mary Is a Bird of Prey
22. Tiger of Sabrod
23. Lupus Dei
24. We Take It from the Living (Live)
25. Prayer in the Dark (Live)
26. Saturday Satan (Live)
27. In Blood We Trust (Live)
28. Mother Mary Is a Bird of Prey (Live)
29. Lupus Dei (Live)

Added: May 21st 2014
Reviewer: Simon Bray
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