Benjamin Buss (; born 7 October 1977), best known by his stage name Matthew Greywolf, is a German musician, best known as the guitarist and a main songwriter in the

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band

Powerwolf Powerwolf, often stylized as POWERWOLF, 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/ ...

. He's married to a photographer Janine Buss.

Biography

Buss comes from

Wadgassen Wadgassen is a municipality in the district of Saarlouis, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Saar, approx. 6 km southeast of Saarlouis, and 15 km west of Saarbrücken. Religion Between 1135 and 1792 the Premonstratensia ...

. He was raised in a

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family. He became interested in heavy metal music when he was 11 years old. In 1994, along with other people he started a band Flowing Tears & Withered Flowers. He was a guitarist and a keyboardist of the band. They changed their name to Flowing Tears in 1999. In 1995 along with his schoolmate Pascal Flach he founded

Red Aim Red Aim was a German rock band. The group was founded in 1995 and mainly played stoner and raga rock. After the change of vocalist to Karsten Brill, the music started to go more into the direction of punk rock and heavy metal. History Red ...

. He started

along with

Charles Greywolf David Vogt (; born 5 September 1975), best known by his stage name Charles Greywolf, is a German musician, record producer, mixer and recording engineer. He is best known as the guitarist of the power metal band Powerwolf. He runs a recording ...

(David Vogt) in 2003. He's the main songwriter of the band and a member that appears in most of the interviews with the group. He also designed the stage setup, merchandise, artwork and layout for most of their albums. 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". He claims that his main musical influences are

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, Paradise Lost,

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, New Model Army,

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and countless others.

Discography

With Powerwolf

* '' Return in Bloodred'' (2005) * ''

Lupus Dei ''Lupus Dei'' (Latin for ''Wolf of God'') is the second full-length studio album by the German power metal band Powerwolf. In addition to recording at Woodhouse Studios, Germany, the band recorded some parts of the album in the 12th-century ''De ...

'' (2007) * ''

Bible of the Beast ''Bible of the Beast'' is the third studio album by the German power metal band Powerwolf. The album was released on 24 April 2009. It was recorded at the Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden. Powerwolf revealed the details of their third album ...

'' (2009) * ''

Blood of the Saints ''Blood of the Saints'' is the fourth studio album by the German power metal band Powerwolf, released in 2011.- - - It is the band's first album with songs that had music videos, made for "We Drink Your Blood" and "Sanctified with Dynamite". In ...

'' (2011) * ''

Preachers of the Night ''Preachers of the Night'' is the fifth studio album by the German power metal band Powerwolf. It was released on 19 July 2013.- - - The band wrote it during 2012 and began recording it in December of the same year at the Studio Fredman in Got ...

'' (2013) * '' Blessed & Possessed'' (2015) *''

The Sacrament of Sin ''The Sacrament of Sin'' is the seventh studio album by German power metal band Powerwolf, released on 20 July 2018 by Napalm Records. The band wrote it during 2017 and began recording it in January 2018 at the Fascination Street Studios in Örebr ...

'' (2018) * ''

Metallum Nostrum ''Metallum Nostrum'' is a cover album by German power metal band Powerwolf, originally released on 17 July 2015 as a bonus disc to ''Blessed & Possessed''. It was re-released separately on 11 January 2019. Track listing Personnel Musicians ...

'' (2019) * '' Call Of The Wild'' (2021)

With Flowing Tears

* ''Swansongs'' (1996) * ''Joy Parade'' (1998) * '' Jade'' (2000) * '' Serpentine'' (2002) * '' Razorbliss'' (2004) * '' Thy Kingdom Gone'' (2008)

With Red Aim

* ''Call Me Tiger'' (1999) * '' Saartanic Cluttydogs'' (2001) * ''

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'' (2002) * '' Niagara'' (2003)

Guest appearances

* Autumnblaze – ''Every Sun Is Fragile'' (2013; guitar on track 10 "Verglimmt")

Equipment

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Greywolf, Matthew Powerwolf members Flowing Tears members Red Aim members German heavy metal guitarists Heavy metal keyboardists People from Saarlouis (district) Living people 1977 births