Fire & Forgive

Fire & Forgive is a song by the German power metal group Powerwolf released on June 22, 2018. It was a second single released from the album The Sacrament of Sin.

Music video
The video tells a story of a girl in a church, who becomes possessed as the result of receiving the Blessed Sacrament from the priest. Powerwolf's vocalist Attila Dorn along with keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel and a few nuns perform an exorcism on the girl. The video also references the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by showing monks burning confiscated books.

Video's story takes place "somewhere in southern Europe" in 1931, although throughout the video, the viewer can see signs of it taking place in Poland (ex. a religious songbook written in Polish, or the date 966–1966, which is a memorial to the Millennium of Poland), where the video was recorded.

Controversy
The video was recorded in the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Ścinawka Średnia, Poland. After releasing it on YouTube on 22 June 2018, Powerwolf was accused by the local curia that the video "overstepped limits with regard both to the sacredness of the church as well as to the trust shown by the parish priest in charge of that holy place".

Many Polish newspapers wrote about this controversy. Most of them said that the band is satanic and anti-church.

Lyrics
Fire & Forgive

We all

Fire & Forgive

We call

Fire & Forgive

Sons of god and sacrament

The night we're dying for

By the call of pyromania

Bring fire into war

Rest in flame by testament

At midnight we return

Raising fodder for the living

The trail of life we burn

And we bring fire, sing fire

Scream fire & forgive

Forgiving the liar, by fire we live

We bring fire, sing fire

Scream fire & forgive

The last of the blood we will give

Fundamental armament

The price we all ignore

Bring to fallen as the savior

To son of god we swore

Once ignited out of it

The beast we all can tame

By the whitest of the holy lore

Come praise the lord in flame

And we bring fire, sing fire

Scream fire & forgive

Forgiving the liar, by fire we live

We bring fire, sing fire

Scream fire & forgive

The last of the blood we will give

Fire, fire, fire & forgive

Fire, fire, fire & forgive

Fire & Forgive

We all

Fire & Forgive

We call

Fire & Forgive

And we bring fire, sing fire

Scream fire & forgive

Forgiving the liar, by fire we live

We bring fire, sing fire

Scream fire & forgive

The last of the blood we will give