The Wacken Worship

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The Wacken Worship
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Released2008
Recorded2 August 2008
Venue Wacken Open Air
Genre
Label
Director Roland Matthes
Producer Ronald Matthes, Marcel Schleiff
Powerwolf chronology
Lupus Dei
(2007)
The Wacken Worship
(2008)
Bible of the Beast
(2009)

The Wacken Worship is the first video album by German power metal band Powerwolf. The album contains live footage of their show at Wacken Open Air on 2 August 2008. [1]

Contents

It was also released as a bonus DVD for the limited edition of their third studio album Bible of the Beast in 2009, [1] [2] and in 2014 on the box set The History of Heresy I. [3] [4]

It also contained a video "Impressions from the Europe in Bloodred Tour 2005".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Intro" 
2."We Take It from the Living" 
3."Prayer in the Dark" 
4."We Came to Take Your Souls" 
5."Saturday Satan" 
6."In Blood We Trust" 
7."Mr. Sinister" 
8."Mother Mary Is a Bird of Prey" 
9."Kiss of the Cobra King" 
10."Lupus Dei" 
11."Impressions from the Europe in Bloodred Tour 2005" 

Personnel

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References

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