Artist: Powerwolf
Title: The Monumental Mass
Label: Napalm Records
Cat #: NPR1127JC
Release Year: 2022
Duration: Double Album
Format: 2 x CD
Packaging Type: Jewelcase

At the end of 2021, POWERWOLF – the most successful German metal band to date – fascinated with a streaming event of unprecedented dimensions. Those who thought they had seen everything in the live sector were instantly proven wrong with unmatched audio production and visuals that can only be described as simply breathtaking. 

POWERWOLF have stood at the peak of superlative, epic metal moments for years, but what they present with this streaming event surpasses anything seen before. After months of detailed work, a story was crafted and presented in several chapters based on the stunning music and elaborately staged cinematic scenes. All show effects, actors and stage settings work hand in hand with each other and bring the medium of live music to a level never seen before. From battles with clergy to stories of nuns, monks and burning angels, cinematic images immediately capture the viewer.

Each song has its own stunning set designed and is perfectly staged - the production and size alone are unparalleled. One live premiere of a POWERWOLF classic follows the next, one after another – all with impressively produced sound design. With fan favourites ""Demons Are A Girl’s Best Friend"", ""Beast Of Gévaudan"", and top radio hit of their last studio album ""Dancing With The Dead"", with the help of numerous actors, the Wolves artistically portray screenplays of their original music videos. One of many highlights of the show is Falk Maria Schlegel's bombastic pyro organ, which spits fire with each single keystroke during songs like ""Fire And Forgive"" and ""Amen & Attack"". On ""Cardinal Sin"", singer Attila Dorn pushes a self-deprecating cardinal back into the fire, while on the ballad ""Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone"", snow falls on the fire-dominated scenery.

Through all four chapters – Temptation, Sin, Confession and Forgiveness – the Wolves create a high-quality pyrotechnics display, often flickering discreetly in the background while other times engulfing the scene in massive awe-inspiring light.

Recommended if you like: Sabaton, Beast in Black, Battle Beast, Helloween, HammerFall, Brothers of Metal, Bloodbound

Track Listing:
CD1
1. Prologue / Monumental Mass Theme
2. Faster Than the Flame
3. Venom Of Venus
4. Stossgebet
5. Demons Are A Girl‘s Best Friend
6. Monumental Mass Theme - Sin
7. Dancing with the Dead
8. Cardinal Sin
9. Resurrection By Erection
10. We Drink Your Blood
11. Glaubenskraft

CD2
1. Monumental Mass Theme - Confession
2. Fire & Forgive
3. Beast of Gévaudan
4. Incense & Iron
5. Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone
6. Monumental Mass Theme - Forgiveness
7. Amen & Attack
8. Army of the Night
9. Blood for Blood (Faoladh)
10. Armata Strigoi
11. Epilogue / Monumental Mass Theme