| "Fire & Forgive" | ||||
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| Single by Powerwolf | ||||
| from the album The Sacrament of Sin | ||||
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| Released | 22 June 2018 | |||
| Recorded | 2018 | |||
| Studio | Fascination Street Studios (Gothenburg, Sweden) | |||
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| Length | 4:30 | |||
| Label | Napalm Records | |||
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| Producer(s) | Jens Bogren | |||
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| "Fire &Forgive" on YouTube | ||||
"Fire &Forgive" is a song by German power metal band Powerwolf. It was a second single released from their 2018 album The Sacrament of Sin . [1] [2]
The video tells a story of a girl in a church,who becomes possessed as the result of receiving the Blessed Sacrament from the priest. [3] Powerwolf's vocalist Attila Dorn along with keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel and a few nuns perform an exorcism on the girl. The video also references the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by showing monks burning confiscated books.
Video's story takes place "somewhere in southern Europe" in 1931,although throughout the video,the viewer can see signs of it taking place in Poland (ex. a religious songbook written in Polish,or the date 966–1966,which is a memorial to the Millennium of Poland),where the video was recorded. [4]
The video was recorded in the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Ścinawka Średnia,Poland. [5] After releasing it on YouTube on 22 June 2018,Powerwolf was accused by the local curia that the video "overstepped limits with regard both to the sacredness of the church as well as to the trust shown by the parish priest in charge of that holy place". [3] [6]
Many Polish newspapers wrote about this controversy. Most of them said that the band is satanic and anti-church. [7]
"Fire &Forgive" is played in a fast,typical Powerwolf style. [8] [9] While performing the song,the band uses a big amount of pyrotechnics. [10] [11] The vocalist Attila Dorn usually wears dual arm mounted flame throwers after the song's guitar solo. [10]
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