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42-431: The old Central Dynamo Stadium was closed for demolition in 2008, and the new VTB Arena was built in its place. The final design of the new stadium was done by David Manica of MANICA Architecture , and the construction was originally scheduled to be finished in 2016 and then 2017, but continued into 2018. The project is called VTB Arena, even though VTB Bank attempted to sell the naming rights. The football stadium has

84-692: A pub and invited him to join their band. Dorn, a student of classical opera at the academy in Bucharest , moved to the band's hometown Saarbrücken , and became the frontman of Powerwolf. With Dorn's love of Romanian werewolf legends, the band created their debut album, Return in Bloodred , which used these same legends as the basis for many of the lyrics. After the album's release, Powerwolf went on their first tour titled Europe in Bloodred Tour. In 2007, they followed up with their second album, Lupus Dei ,

126-512: A 3–3 draw, in front of 23,340. The VTB Arena's new football stadium was included in the successful Russian bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup . In late September 2012 FIFA announced the list of host cities and venues, which excluded VTB Arena from the host list. Ice hockey club HC Dynamo Moscow played their first game at the arena (named Arkady Chernyshev Arena for hockey games) on 4 January 2019 against Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg , winning 2–0 with attendance of 10,797. On 17 February 2019,

168-452: A concept album starring a wolf as the main character and his rise from bloodlust to enlightenment. Powerwolf supported Grave Digger during their tour. In 2008, Powerwolf released their first video album The Wacken Worship . It contained live footage of their show at Wacken Open Air 2008. In the same year, they went on a Metal is our Mission Tour together with Brainstorm and Pagan's Mind . The single "Raise Your Fist, Evangelist"

210-471: A majority of their tour dates taking place inside of Europe. They also change their costumes for every album. Over the years, a theme has developed which personifies the band members as werewolves, leading fans to refer to the band affectionately as "The Wolves". Powerwolf was formed in 2003 by the members of the stoner rock band Red Aim . When the band was founded, the members decided to take on pseudonyms and build up backstories around those. Officially,

252-496: A quadruple headline tour with Sabaton , Grave Digger and Skull Fist . In 2012, Powerwolf released two albums. The first was the Wolfsnächte 2012 Tour EP , a split EP with Mystic Prophecy , Stormwarrior , and Lonewolf. This EP featured a previously unreleased Powerwolf track, "Living on a Nightmare". Copies of this EP were originally distributed along with the purchase of tickets to Powerwolf's Wolfsnächte Tour 2012 but since

294-866: A religious band, but rather call themselves spiritual. When asked if he was a Christian or a Satanist , Matthew Greywolf answered: "I am a metalist, a metal fan. Metal is my religion. Look at all these people, what unites them? I can tell you, it's the fucking metal." In one of the interviews, Matthew is quoted saying: Some people are confused because we never make a point of saying the silly words of which side we are on. A lot of people ask us, "Are you Satanists? Are you Christians?" And we never say anything about that, and we never will, because in what we do in Powerwolf, it's not important what we as individuals believe or stand for. We sometimes describe religious history, we sometimes write about Satanism, Catholicism, or whatever, but we never judge anything. I think on one side, this

336-746: Is a German power metal band founded in 2003 in Saarbrücken by members of Red Aim . The band consists of vocalist Karsten Brill as " Attila Dorn ", lead guitarist Benjamin Buss as " Matthew Greywolf ", bassist/rhythm guitarist David Vogt as " Charles Greywolf ", keyboardist Christian Jost as " Falk Maria Schlegel " and drummer Roel van Helden . The group uses religious themes and images, contrary to traditional power metal music, as well as corpse paint , gothic-tinged compositions and songs about werewolf and vampire legends. They released their debut album, Return in Bloodred , in 2005. Their second album, Lupus Dei ,

378-500: Is catchy as hell. On 28 May 2011 the band announced on their website that Tom Diener was replaced by a new drummer Roel van Helden from the Netherlands . The band released the single " Sanctified with Dynamite " on 24 May 2011 and the second one on 5 July 2011 titled "We Drink Your Blood", to which Powerwolf recorded their first ever music video. It was shot in an ancient monastery church. Falk Maria Schlegel commented that "Shooting

420-440: Is confusing people, but on the other side, a lot of people do understand that we only describe or write lyrics about something, not to deliver a message. Audience engagement, and pyrotechnics are important parts of Powerwolf's stage show. The vocalist Attila Dorn often speaks directly to the audience and engages them in various activities, such as singing or shouting, before announcing the next song. The band calls their concerts

462-416: Is no longer in use. A monument to Lev Yashin (1929–1990) stands at the stadium's north entrance and VIP boxes are positioned above the entrances to the north and south stands. In 2008 the stadium celebrated its 80-year anniversary. Michael Jackson brought his HIStory World Tour to Dynamo Stadium in 1996 and Deep Purple performed there the same year. Dynamo Stadium closed for demolition in 2008, with

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504-506: The COVID-19 pandemic . On 16 January 2020, Powerwolf announced their greatest hits album titled Best of the Blessed . Initially set to be released on 5 June 2020, it was later scheduled to be released on 3 July 2020. On 28 April 2020, Powerwolf announced work on a new studio album, to be released in 2021. On 19 January 2021, Powerwolf announced their new album will be named Call of

546-507: The Russian Premier League announced that its inspectors did not find the pitch acceptable for play, and the derby was moved to a backup stadium. As a result, the pitch was reinstalled from scratch. On 16 May 2019, the league approved the new pitch for use and announced that the first game at the stadium played by Dynamo would be the closing game of the 2018–19 Russian Premier League season against Arsenal Tula on 26 May, which ended

588-589: The Walking with Dinosaurs show at the indoor arena and concerts by KISS ( End of the Road World Tour ), Rammstein (Europe Stadium Tour 2019, later moved to the higher-capacity Luzhniki Stadium after tickets were quickly sold out) and Max Korzh at the outdoor stadium. Other 2019 concerts booked at the arena were The Chemical Brothers , Christina Aguilera ( The X Tour ), Bi-2 , Scorpions ( Crazy World Tour ), Mumiy Troll , Zveri , LOBODA and Sergey Lazarev at

630-499: The 2022 shows were cancelled following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . 2024 concerts include mostly performances by local acts, including Kino , Anton Belyaev , Dima Bilan , Egor Kreed , Kipelov , Knyazz , The Hatters and Markul . On 27 November 2018, the arena confirmed that the first football game after reopening was to be played between Dynamo Moscow and Spartak Moscow (see Oldest Russian derby ), initially scheduled for 10 March 2019. However, on 28 February 2019,

672-639: The Dead". On 16 July 2021, Call of the Wild , the band's eighth album, was released. On 4 October 2022, the band announced that they are set to perform their first North American shows in New York City and Montreal in February 2023. On 28 November, Powerwolf announced that their ninth studio album, Interludium , would be released on 7 April 2023. On 4 April 2024, Powerwolf announced that their tenth studio album, Wake Up

714-521: The IV Sport Business Awards. The VTB Arena's initial concept was drawn by Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat , who does designs mainly for buildings in Russia and Germany. His vision of comprising both a football stadium and an ice hockey arena inside the bowl of the former Dynamo Stadion won the authorities' approval. Other architects who submitted their projects for tender, but lost out on

756-672: The Night in 2013. It has debuted at No. 1 in Germany. Their sixth album, Blessed & Possessed , released in 2015, was certified gold in the Czech Republic. Their seventh album, The Sacrament of Sin , was released in 2018. Their eighth album, Call of the Wild , was released in 2021. Their ninth album, Interludium , was released in 2023. Their tenth album, Wake Up the Wicked , was released in 2024. Powerwolf has embarked on several tours, with

798-483: The Night was released on 18 July 2013. The album has entered the official German album charts at position 1. In 2014, Powerwolf released The History of Heresy I and The History of Heresy II , the second of which included several orchestral versions of Powerwolf songs. Powerwolf began working on their sixth album in June 2014. They announced their new album on their Facebook page on 5 December 2014. On 8 May 2015,

840-417: The Night", "We Drink Your Blood" and "Sanctified with Dynamite", a festival documentation "A Day At Summer Breeze" and a tour documentation movie "Kreuzweg – Of Wolves And Men". On 10 October 2017, Powerwolf announced on Facebook that they had completed writing for their seventh full-length album, promising its release to occur sometime in 2018. In January 2018, the band entered the studio to begin recording

882-487: The Wicked , is set for release on 26 July 2024. Powerwolf's sound has primarily been described as power metal and traditional heavy metal . Powerwolf's musical style is different from other power metal bands. In addition to the classic metal instruments, organ sounds are used. For the studio albums, a church choir was recorded. The band states that their main influences are Black Sabbath , Mercyful Fate , Forbidden and Iron Maiden . The dominant language of

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924-472: The Wild . Later on 20 May 2021, the first song of the album, "Beast of Gévaudan", was released. On 9 June 2021, a re-recorded version of " Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend " featuring Alissa White-Gluz on vocals (from Missa Cantorem , the bonus cover album included with various special formats of Call of the Wild) was released. On 23 June, the band released another new song of their new album called "Dancing with

966-462: The album won a German Metal Hammer "Best album of the year" award. A limited edition mediabook version of The Sacrament of Sin featured a second disc named Communio Lupatum , which featured Powerwolf songs covered by other artists selected by the band members, such as Epica , Saltatio Mortis , Caliban , Battle Beast , Heaven Shall Burn , Kadavar , Kissin' Dynamite , Mille Petrozza , Marc Görtz, Amaranthe and Eluveitie . In support of

1008-510: The album, due later in the year. The title of the album was later announced as The Sacrament of Sin , which was released on 20 July 2018. It was Jens Bogren 's first production work for Powerwolf. The album was rated positively by the critics, highlighting mainly the new elements that Powerwolf put in the music. The album also flourished commercially, ranked first in the German charts, and also ranked in several other countries. On 14 September 2018,

1050-566: The album, the band performed in Europe during 2018 and 2019. On 11 January 2019, Powerwolf re-released their cover album Metallum Nostrum . On 1 November 2019, the band released their single of their re-written and re-recorded version of " Kiss of the Cobra King ". In 2020, Powerwolf went on their first Latin America tour along with Amon Amarth . They had to cancel the last three concerts due to

1092-625: The arena hosted the VTB United League allstar game . The VTB Arena's new indoor arena was reported to be chosen to host the basketball EuroLeague 's final competition stage, the EuroLeague Final Four , in 2019. However, EuroLeague Basketball did not confirm this report, and the tournament was in fact awarded to Fernando Buesa Arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz , Spain. Dynamo Stadium (Moscow) (1928) Central Dynamo Stadium

1134-886: The band released their single "Army of the Night" and "Armata Strigoi" on 5 June 2015. Their new album Blessed & Possessed , which was released on 17 July 2015. They embarked on a tour supporting the album into 2016. Boxset and earbook editions of the album featured a bonus CD Metallum Nostrum , which contains 10 songs of different artists that Powerwolf's band members selected to cover, such as Judas Priest , Running Wild , Savatage , Chroming Rose, Gary Moore , Ozzy Osbourne , Amon Amarth , Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath . Powerwolf released their second video album The Metal Mass – Live on 27 July 2016 in Japan and 29 July 2016 in Europe. It contained live footage of three shows: Masters of Rock 2015 , Summer Breeze 2015 , Wolfsnächte Tour 2015, music videos to "Amen & Attack", "Army of

1176-476: The brothers Charles and Matthew Greywolf had been playing together for years when they decided to create a band, and so Powerwolf was started. Soon the brothers added German drummer Stéfane Funèbre and German keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel to the band, but could not find a suitable singer to complete the line-up. In the meantime, the band started writing, and on holidays in Romania, Charles and Matthew met Attila Dorn in

1218-405: The capacity of 27,000, that can be adjusted up to 45,000, or down to an undisclosed number, while the indoor arena has a base capacity of 12,273. At the end of 2020, a facial recognition system was installed at the stadium to keep unwanted fans out. It was also expected that biometrics will replace tickets in the future. On results of 2020 the football stadium and ice arena became the winners of

1260-484: The farewell match played on 22 November 2008. The stadium's main tenant, FC Dynamo Moscow , moved to Arena Khimki , a stadium in the Moscow suburb of Khimki . This article about a Russian sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Summer Olympics venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Powerwolf Powerwolf (often stylized in all caps)

1302-479: The final bid, included Perkins Eastman , Populous , and Gerkan, Marg and Partners . However, some of the elements from the losing bids were used in the final design. The final design was prepared by the American firm MANICA Architecture . On 27 December 2017, the first event was officially confirmed for the stadium, a concert by Imagine Dragons on 29 August 2018 as part of their Evolve World Tour . In June 2018,

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1344-446: The indoor arena and Jennifer Lopez ( It's My Party Tour ) at the outdoor stadium. The concerts booked for 2020 included Chaif , The World of Hans Zimmer symphonic show, Diana Arbenina and Novoye Radio awards show feat. Basta , Ruki Vverh! and Little Big (all indoors). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia , 2020 bookings were limited. The concerts booked for 2021 included shows by Aerosmith , Bi-2 , and Twenty One Pilots at

1386-498: The lyrics is English, but they also use Latin ("Werewolves of Armenia", "Lupus Dei", "Kreuzfeuer", "Stossgebet", "Sanctus Dominus"), and rarely German ("Moscow After Dark", "We Take the Church by Storm", "Werewolves of Armenia", "Kreuzfeuer", "Amen & Attack", "Stossgebet", "Glaubenskraft"). The lyrics of the band are characterized by the treatment of Christianity and ancient Romanian legends. Powerwolf, however, do not consider themselves

1428-458: The outdoor stadium and Powerwolf , LSP, Kasta , Kino , Aria , Artik & Asti , Enrique Iglesias , Korn , Diana Arbenina , and Pavel Volya at the indoor arena. Due to continuing waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, several 2021 shows were cancelled or rescheduled for 2022. Concerts booked for 2022 included rescheduled shows by Iron Maiden , Aerosmith, Enrique Iglesias, Powerwolf and Korn. Most of

1470-460: The show was moved to Luzhniki Stadium because VTB Arena was not completed by the expected date. The stadium received official permit for use on 27 November 2018 and the first event booked was a figure skating adaptation of the " Swan Lake " by Evgeni Plushenko on 20 December 2018. Many events were booked for 2019 following the opening: concerts by Twenty One Pilots , Dima Bilan , Manowar , Hollywood Undead , Splean and Disturbed as well as

1512-602: The tour's conclusion, copies have been available in the Powerwolf webstore. The second of Powerwolf's 2012 releases was Alive in the Night , the band's first live album. It contained 10 tracks and was just over 45 minutes in length. It was released with the April 2012 issue of the German edition of Metal Hammer . On 13 August 2012, Powerwolf signed a deal with Napalm Records . Powerwolf released their EP The Rockhard Sacrament on 22 June 2013. The band also released their single "Amen & Attack" on 28 June 2013. Preachers of

1554-507: The venues of the football tournament of the 1980 Summer Olympics . A new stadium was built on the same spot and is named VTB Arena . Dynamo Stadium, designed by the architects Arkadiy Langman  [ ru ] and Lazar Cherikover  [ ru ] , dates from 1928. In 1938 the Dinamo station of the Moscow Metro opened nearby. An athletics track circles the football field, but

1596-587: The video in such a special and atmospheric place was incredible. The combination of the sacral interior of the church, including altar , confessional box and a church organ with a lot of fire, fog and metal insanity was the perfect set for a Powerwolf video." Their fourth album, titled Blood of the Saints , was released on 29 July 2011 in Europe and 2 August in the United States. In September 2011, Powerwolf went on

1638-642: Was a stadium in Moscow , Russia. It was built in 1928 and held 36,540 people. It was the home ground for Dynamo Moscow . It was central venue of the All-Soviet Dynamo sports society and carried special name of Central to denote its importance. Until the construction of the Central Lenin Stadium in 1956, the Central Dynamo Stadium was the central sports facility in Moscow. The stadium was one of

1680-528: Was released in 2007. The band entered the official German charts for the first time in 2009 with their third album, Bible of the Beast . Shortly after its release, their first drummer Stefan Gemballa (stage name Stéfane Funèbre) left the band. He was replaced by Tom Diener, who was replaced in 2011 by Roel van Helden. In the same year, the band released their fourth album, Blood of the Saints . In 2012, Powerwolf signed with Napalm Records and released Preachers of

1722-464: Was released on 19 March 2009. Powerwolf's third album Bible of the Beast was released on 24 April 2009. The record was able to place as the band's first album in the German charts and reached number 76. They embarked on a tour supporting the album in 2010. "Raise Your Fist, Evangelist" was nominated for the Metal Hammer "Metal Anthem 2010" award. On 2 March 2010 Stéfane Funèbre left the band and

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1764-461: Was replaced by Tom Diener. Powerwolf announced it on their Myspace blog. In November 2010, Powerwolf organist Falk Maria Schlegel stated about the group's new material: We spent the last three months in the rehearsal room working out stuff for the new album. Even though it's still in the making, we can already promise the songs are 100% POWERWOLF, taking off where Bible of the Beast ended. There's furious stuff, there's epic stuff — and all of it

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