Return in Bloodred
2005 studio album by Powerwolf
Return in Bloodred is the debut studio album by German power metal band Powerwolf, released in 2005.
History
First songs for the album, such as "Mr. Sinister" and "We Came to Take Your Souls", which were completed in the first session, were written in June 2004.
The album was recorded within eight days in September 2004 at Studio Fredman. The drummer Stéfane Funèbre had to be temporarily replaced by Tom Diener during the recording due to a tendonitis.
The album was re-released in 2014 as part of the box set The History of Heresy I along with the album Lupus Dei and a DVD of a performance at the Wacken Open Air 2008.
Themes
"Mr. Sinister" was the first song Powerwolf had ever written; this served as a guide for the style they appropriated. The text is about Vlad II Dracul, the father of Dracula.
"We Came to Take Your Souls" tells about a war between Romania and the Ottoman Empire under Vlad III Dracula.
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