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Powerwolf - Preachers of the Night
Powerwolf - Preachers of the Night (2013)~ Coleus Sanctus ~When I first read the title, I thought "What the f***?" The title means Holy balls. (Althought the plural form Colei Sancti would have been...
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Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony (2011)Fleshgod’s music isn’t metal for the masses. Their mix of classic orchestration and insane and complex death metal is quite demanding. So are their lyrics, the...
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Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen (2013)Welcome, trick Nr.5! Quite dark and obscure, more a network of mere impressions. Ihsahn used some German words and some Latin ones as well - so here we go:Hiber - the...
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Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Vader - Tibi Et Igni (2014)Just three words to translate. They mean For you and for the fire. As far as I found out, tibi et igni was a postscipt written under secret documents. Luckily, the CD won't...
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Schammasch - Sic luceat Lux
Schammasch - Sic luceat lux (2010)All good things come in threes! A few days ago Vader used three latin words to name their next album, right now I found the Swiss Band Schammasch, who named their...
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Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis
Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis (2012)This title is quite nice, because a title starting with "de" - "about" was typical for scientific and/or philophical works written in latin (in...
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The Tower - Hic Abundant Leones
The Tower - Hic Abundant Leones (2014)The title of the reacord means Here we have an abundance of lions. In old maps this saying (sometimes together with a picture of a lion) was used to express that...
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Schammasch - Split my Tongue
Schammasch - Contradiction (2014)Schammasch loves the light! You'll find this topic quite often in their lyrics. In the first record's title you had "lux - light" and "luceat - it shall shine". Now, in...
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Opeth - Pale Communion
Opeth - Pale Communion (2014)I have to confess, I was not the first. For I was on holiday the last days, I couldn't buy the new Opeth record yet and therefore it was wikipedia who told me that there...
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Abruptum
AbruptumThe most of Abruptum's albums and/ or titles are written in Latin, sometimes correct, sometimes not. Here are the translations, beginning with the oldest record.obscuritatem invoco amplectere...
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Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum (2014)Did Anaal Nathrakh think of their fans when they called they record to come "Desideratum"? I in any case really look forward to the record. At the moment, I've just...
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Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Epica - The Quantum Enigma (2014)I have to confess that I have a bias against female-fronted power metal bands. I know Epica, which means that I know that this is a metal band. Up to the present...
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Ignis Haereticum - Luciferian Gnosis
Ignis Haereticum - Luciferian Gnosis (2014)Ignis Haereticum (The Fire of Haeresy) is a band situated in Cúcuta, North Colombia - a fascinating and charming country, where I sometimes have witnessed the...
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Death SS - Black Mass
Death SS - Black Mass (1989)The title song of this record contains a longer latin prayer, an invocation of Satan.Satana, qui unus es dominus nobisprodimus deum orbis terrarumsanctos pinguemque...
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Powerwolf - Lupus Dei
Powerwolf - Lupus Dei (2007)Powerwolf arose out of the void and ascended the top of the cross within just a few years. Their last record reached the top of the German charts, their newest one -...
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Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed
Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed (2015)~ Blessed & Possessed ~Benedictus - BlessedEt Affectus - and PossessedBenedictus - BlessedHalleluja - well..., not too difficult~ Armata Strigoi ~ Armata...
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Motörhead - Victoria aut morte
Just clicked here and there on youtube. There I found a recent Motörhead-concert. On their backdrop they had the latin words victoria aut morte. victoria is nominative or ablative case, morte is just...
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Absolutus
Absolutus - Pugnare in Iis quae obtinere non possis (2015)Absolutus is an avantegarde black metal band from Belgium. They've already released two albums and one EP. All of them have Latin litles,...
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Ghost - Infestissumam
Ghost - Infestissumam (2013)"Infestissumam" is the superlative form of "infestus - hostile, threatening, dangerous". It's accusative case feminine: whom? - "the most hostile one". Because of the "u"...
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Arch Enemy - Tempore nihil sanat
Arch Enemy - War Eternal (2014)The first song of this record actually is just an instrumental, but at the end a choir sings some Latin phrases:De fumo in flammam -out of the smoke into the flame...
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Swallow the Sun - Lumina Aurea
Swallow the Sun - Lumina Aurea (2018)As you surely know, this EP contains a single song in which guitarist and band leader Juha Raivio comes to terms with the death of his girlfriend. She died of...
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Osmi Putnik - Maleficium Taciturnitatus
Osmi Putnik - Ulična molitva (1986)The Croatian metal band Osmi Putnik ("Eight Traveller/ Passenger") released their first full lenght record in 1986. The last song "Maleficium Tacitunitatus" contains...
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Powerwolf - The Sacrament of Sin
Powerwolf - The Sacrament of Sin (2018)On "The Sacrament of Sin" there is the song "Stoßgebet". Someone commented correctly on youtube: "Basically, it's about sex. Stoßgebet is a play on words because...
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Negator - Vnitas Pvritas Existentia
Negator - Vnitas Pvritas Existentia (2019)The German black Metal band "Negator" has recently released their newest record. The name of the record as well as some titles are in Latin, and there is also...
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Mayhem - Deamon
Mayhem - Deamon (2019)Well, there is a Norwegian black metal band called Mayhem. I guess some of you have already heard of them. They say that they are quite famous - don't know... Ok, Mayhem are...
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