Romanian metallers POWERWOLF have uploaded the first new song off their upcoming new album Bible Of The Beast. Check it out the song ‘Raise Your Fist, Evangelist’ at this location.

Guitar player Matthew Greywolf comments about the album: "When we started writing new songs it became clear that Attila had developed his voice to a new level of intensity and heaviness. He has explored a lot of really heavy bands during the last two years which he hadn´t known before, and this probably left an impression. And with Attila raising the level of aggression in his voice, it felt natural that the whole band followed during the songwriting process. We finally were able to set free all the power and strength that lied hidden underneath the wolf's fur during all these years, and now it felt like the time for its outbreak had come. The songwriting felt like a giant rush of energy, which songs as 'Raise Your Fist, Evangelist' or 'Werewolves Of Armenia' display quite clearly."

After three months of intense songwriting the band was ready to hit the studios in November 2008, this time recording the basic tracks at Kohlekeller Studios near Frankfurt in Germany, while once again for the church organ parts they invaded a chapel near Thionville in Northern France. "Recording a real organ gives a much more haunting feeling to the music. No keyboard could ever transport that, and that´s why we don´t do it the easy way, but take the ordeal of recording a real organ in a church," says organist Falk Maria Schlegel.

Moreover, on Bible Of The Beast Powerwolf fulfilled a dream they had kept since they started working with choirs on ‘Lupus Dei’. For ‘Bible Of The Beast’, no less than 25 classically educated singers of the Musikhochschule des Saarlandes (a national conservatory for classical music) sang choir arrangements on eight of the songs. "We actually recorded the choir parts in the studio of the conservatory. I think it was the first time that these venerable walls had been shaken with heavy metal," says Charles Greywolf with a smile. "While on 'Lupus Dei' it was a bonus we added on top of some songs, this time we already had choir parts in mind when we wrote the songs, so the dialogue of choir and Attila works perfectly in songs such as 'St. Satan´s Day' or 'Seven Deadly Saints'."

For the mix of the album, Powerwolf once again worked with the legendary Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman (IN FLAMES, HAMMERFALL, DIMMU BORGIR), who seems to have outdone himself this time in setting up a massive, powerful, yet transparent wall of sound, that perfectly transports both the heavy edge as well as all the many details Powerwolf put into this album.

Bible Of The Beast will be released on April 24th / 27th in Europe. The limited first edition will be released as a digipak including the bonus DVD‚ The Wacken Worship - Live At Wacken Open Air 2008.

Tracklisting for the bonus DVD The Wacken Worship - Live at Wacken Open Air 2008: 'We Take It From The Living', 'Prayer In The Dark', 'We Came To Take Your Souls', 'Saturday Satan', 'In Blood We Trust', 'Mother Mary Is A Bird Of Prey', 'Mister Sinister', 'Kiss Of The Cobra King', 'Lupus Dei'.