POWERWOLF Collaborating With Choir On New Album

January 22, 2009

Multinational metalheads POWERWOLF are collaborating with the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken, a conservatory for classical music, on their forthcoming third album. Last week, the band spent two days at the conservatory recording choir arrangements for eight of the songs on the new CD with a specially assembled choir of 25 men and women, most of them students or graduates of the conservatory. The choir was conducted by Francesco Cottone, who also composed the choir arrangements. (See photos below.)

"It was overwhelming," frontman Attila Dorn reports. "It is a great privilege to work with such a professional choir and such a dedicated conductor. And we're not speaking of mercenaries here: All of the educated musicians did it for the honor, and some of the classical singers even outed themselves as real metal fans. We're absolutely excited about how great the choir stuff fits into the songs and how huge and heavy it all sounds. Expect a bunch of great anthems of majestic metal to come!"

The as-yet-untitled album will be mixed by Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman in Sweden in February and will be released April 24 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, and April 27 in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records.

POWERWOLF's second LP, "Lupus Dei", was released in May 2007 through Metal Blade.

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