Powerwolf – The Metal Mass

Now while Powerwolf have a lot of fans, and I enjoy several of their songs, the problem lies in their structure and deliveries - there are too many similarities, and almost every song feels the same. Given Powerwolf’s strengths in musicality, vocals and melodies, guitar harmonies, reflective solos…they now need to think more like Dio, Maiden, Saxon, and Priest. Write more songs with variety in tempos, riffs, vocal delivery and the chorus, etc, so to become better at what they do. Because at this point, I’m only half sold on their strengths, versus their weaknesses. Sabaton also suffer formulaically from the same, after a few tunes in a row, the structures make it all sound the same.

In closing, the DVD is well worth it, it’s a 9/10 because of the amount of music you get and the quality of the production. 7/10 because of the music’s redundancy. With that, given my description and similarities to Sabaton Powerwolf are bound to have the same fans, I’d say. There is not much difference between the two bands aside from their fashion and lyrics. Powerwolf are kind a like brothers in metal to their Swedish counterparts. They just need to balance out their recognizable sound and stylings with more variety.