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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Rich Hobson

"They combine the best parts of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Ghost". Flame-throwing organs, witch burnings and inflatable pickaxes: Heavy metal's nerdiest subgenre just conquered one of the UK's most iconic arenas

Powerwolf Wembley Arena 2026.

Powerwolf just proved that power metal has never been bigger. They might not embrace the tag, but the German werewolf-priests are only the second band in the subgenre to headline an arena in the UK - Sabaton were first - and they took to it with all the enthusiasm of a pyromaniac to a bonfire.

It's not even seven o'clock and already Wembley is filling up, a curtain on the backwall the only sign the venue isn't sold out. You don't need to count the masses of inflatable pickaxes held aloft to tell Wind Rose are fast-rising stars of the genre.

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