Armata Strigoi

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"Armata Strigoi"
Single by Powerwolf
from the album Blessed & Possessed
Language	English Romanian Latin
Released	5 June 2015
Recorded	2015
Studio	Studio Fredman (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Genre	Power metal heavy metal
Length	3:58
Label	Napalm Records
Songwriter(s)	Attila Dorn Charles Greywolf Matthew Greywolf Falk Maria Schlegel Roel van Helden
Powerwolf singles chronology
"Army of the Night" (2015) "Armata Strigoi" (2015) "Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend" (2018)
Music video
"Armata Strigoi" on YouTube

"Armata Strigoi" is a song by the German power metal group Powerwolf released on 5 June 2015.^[1] It was the first single released from the album Blessed & Possessed.

The music video was released on YouTube on 2 June 2015.^[2][3]

Subject[]

The title of the song references a demon from Romanian mythology known as strigoi.^[3] Its text tells a story of Voivode of Wallachia Vlad the Impaler. During the night of 16–17 June, Vlad broke into the Ottoman camp in an attempt to capture or kill the sultan. Either the imprisonment or the death of the sultan would have caused a panic among the Ottomans, which could have enabled Vlad to defeat the Ottoman army. However, the Wallachians "missed the court of the sultan himself" and attacked the tents of the viziers Mahmut Pasha and Isaac. Having failed to attack the sultan's camp, Vlad and his retainers left the Ottoman camp at dawn. Mehmed entered Târgoviște at the end of June. The town had been deserted, but the Ottomans were horrified to discover a "forest of the impaled" (thousands of stakes with the carcasses of executed people), according to Chalkokondyles.

Credits and personnel[]

• Attila Dorn – vocals
• Matthew Greywolf – lead and rhythm guitar
• Charles Greywolf – lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar
• Roel van Helden – drums, percussion
• Falk Maria Schlegel – organ, keyboards
• Jens Bogren – mastering
• Sam Braun – engineer
• David Buballa – engineer
• Charles Greywolf – engineer
• Matthew Greywolf – artwork, layout
• Kristian "Kohle" Kohlmannslehner – engineer
• Manuela Meyer – photography
• Fredrik Nordström – mixing
• Henrik Udd – mixing

References[]

External links[]

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics