List of songs with Latin lyrics

This is a list of songs having lyrics in Latin.

This list contains songs that are performed in Latin by the named performers. Songs that sample other recorded music in Latin do not become eligible only by virtue of that sampling. Songs with only a Latin refrain are also excluded.

Classical music

Almost all Catholic liturgical music composed before the middle of the 20th century, including literally thousands of settings of the ordinary of the mass (Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei), the ordinary and proper of the Requiem mass, psalms, canticles (such as the Magnificat), antiphons, and motets. Famous examples include:

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B Minor, four Missae, Magnificat, cantata BWV 191
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus, Requiem
• Carl Orff – Carmina Burana, Meum est propositum in taberna mori
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli
• Antonio Vivaldi – Nulla in mundo pax sincera

The libretto for the opera-oratorio Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky is in Latin.

Hymns and carols

• "Adeste Fideles"
• "Boar's Head Carol"
• "Gaudeamus Igitur", also known as De Brevitate Vitae
• "Gaudete"
• "Gloria Tibi Domine"
• "Io Vivat"
• "Tempus Adest Floridum"

Light classical music

• Sarah Brightman – In Paradisum

Popular music

Folk

• Die Irrlichter – Totus Floreo, Cantum Corvi, Angelus ad Virginem, Orientes Partibus, Puer Nobis Nascitur, Gaudete
• Garmarna – Euchari, O Viridissima Virga, O Frondens Virga
• Ougenweide – Totus Floreo, Terra Sinus Aperit, Gaudete
• Steeleye Span – Gaudete †

Metal

• After Forever- Mea Culpa,Leaden Legacy
• Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem
• Evanescence – Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum
• Subway to Sally - Ad Mortem Festinamus
• Ghost Bc - "Infestissumam"
• Whitechapel – Articulo Mortis, Ear to Ear
• Iced Earth – In Sacred Flames
• Helloween – Lavdate Dominvm
• Mägo de Oz – La Cantata del Diablo (Missit me dominus)
• maudlin of the Well – The Ferryman
• Deathspell Omega – Obombration, First Prayer, Malign Paradigm
• Death SS – Black Mass
• Epica:
  • The Phantom Agony: Adyta (The Neverending Embrace – Prelude), Facade of Reality, Illusive Consensus, "The Phantom Agony"
  • Consign to Oblivion: Hunab K’u (A New Age Dawns), Dance of Fate, The Last Crusade (A New Age Dawns Part I), Consign to Oblivion (A New Age Dawns Part III)
  • The Divine Conspiracy: Indigo (Prologue), The Obsessive Devotion, Living a Lie (The Embrace that Smothers Part VIII), Fools of Damnation (The Embrace that Smothers Part IX), The Divine Conspiracy
  • Design Your Universe: Samadhi (Prelude), Resign to Surrender (A New Age Dawns Part IV), Martyr of the Free World, Kingdom of Heaven (A New Age Dawns Part V), Design Your Universe (A New Age Dawns Part IV)
  • Requiem for the Indifferent: Karma, Monopoly on Truth, Internal Warfare, Requiem for the Indifferent, Guilty Demeanor
  • The Quantum Enigma: "Originem","The Second Stone","The Quantum Enigma:Kingdom Of Heaven II"
  • The Holographic Principle: "Eidola","Tear Down Your Walls","The Holographic Principle:A Profound Understanding Of Reality"
• Ex Deo:
  • Romulus: Cruor Nostri Abbas, Cry Havoc, In Her Dark Embrace, Invictus, Storm the Gates of Alesia
  • Caligvla: Once Were Romans, Per Oculos Aquila, Pollice Verso
• Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
• My Dying Bride – Sear Me
• Necrodeath – Mater Tenebrarum
• Nemesea – Threefold Law, Empress, Mortalitas Part II: Dies Irae, Mortalitas Part III: Moriendum Tibi Est
• Rotting Christ – Gloria De Domino Inferni, Non Serviam,Fethroestoria, Ira Incensus, Aeternus, In Domine Satana, Ad Noctis
• Rhapsody - Ira Tenax, Agony Is My Name
• Slechtvalk – In paradisum
• In Extremo – Totus Floreo, Stella Splendens, Omnia Sol Temperat *
• Kamelot – Memento Mori, March of Mephisto, Manus Dei, Veritas, Citizen Zero, Interlude I (Opiate Soul), The Edge of Paradise
• Knorkator – Aeger sum
• Krypteria:
  • Liberatio: Liberatio
  • In Medias Res: Victoriam Speramus, No More Lies, Quae Laetitia, Always and Forever
  • Bloodangel's Cry: The Promise
  • All Beauty Must Die: Liberatio 2011
• Powerwolf - Lupus Daemonis, Prayer In The Dark, When The Moon Shines Red, Lupus Dei, Opening: Prelude To Purgatory, Raise Your Fist, Evangelist, Moscow After Dark, Catholic In The Morning... Satanist At Night, Werewolves Of Armenia, We Take The Church By Storm, St. Satan's Day, Opening: Agnus Dei, Sanctified With Dynamite, We Drink Your Blood, All We Need Is Blood, Dead Boys Don't Cry, Son of a Wolf, Night Of The Werewolves, Die, Die, Crucified, Ira Sancti (When The Saints Are Going Wild), Amen & Attack, Secrets of the Sacristy, Coleus Sanctus, Sacred & Wild, Kreuzfeuer, Cardinal Sin, In the Name of God (Deus Vult), Nochnoi Dozor, Lust for Blood, Extatum et Oratum, Last of the Living Dead
• Rhapsody of Fire – Ira Tenax, Epicus Furor, In Tenebris, Dark Secret-Ira Divina
• Sabaton – Wehrmacht (only refrain in Latin), Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus, Lion of the North, Resist and Bite
• Tristania:
  • Widow's Weeds: Preludium, Evenfall, Postludium
  • Beyond the Veil: Beyond the Veil, Aphelion, Sequel of Decay, Opus Relinque, Lethean River
  • World of Glass: The Shining Path, Wormwood , Hatred Grows, Crushed Dreams

Various

• 98° – Ave Maria
• Kuroshitsuji Soundtrack Si Deus Me Relinquit^[1]
• ABBA – The Piper
• Alizée- Veni Vedi Vici
• Abonos – Izlaz
• Abruptum – De Profundis Mors Vas Consumet
• Ace of Base – Happy Nation
• Ataraxia – Maria Ceremoniale, Mundus Est Jocundum, Spiritus Ad Vindictam *
• Bára Basiková – Veni Domine †
• Bauhaus (band) – Stigmata Martyr
• Patrick Cassidy – Vide Cor Meum *
• Corvus Corax – Ante Casu Peccati (album, 1989), Inter Deum et Diabolum Semper Musica Est (album, 1993), Viator (album, 1998), Mille Anni Passi Sunt (album, 2000), Tritonus (album, 2004), Tempi Antiquii (album, 2004), Venus Vina Musica (album, 2006), Cantus Buranus II (album, 2008) *
• Coven – Satanic Mass
• The Cranberries – Electric Blue Eyes
• D.Gray-man – Lala's Lullaby
• Dargaard – Caverna Obscura, Ave Atque Vale, Thy Fleeing Time
• Dark Sanctuary – Miserere
• Die Irrlichter – Totus Floreo
• Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy - Canto Mortis - An Undocumented Battle, Cantata Mortis
• Elfen Lied – Lillium
• Dovetree – multiple song titles...
• E Nomine – Das Testament (album), Schwarze Sonne (album) *
• E Nomine – Das Testament (album), Himmel oder Holle (album) *
• Electric Prunes – Mass in F Minor (album)
• Enigma – Mea Culpa, Sadness
• Enya – Pax Deorum, Tempus Vernum, Afer Ventus, Cursum perficio *
• Era – The Mass
• Erasure - Gaudete
• Estampie – Ave generosa, Stella splendens *
• European anthem (unofficial)
• Faith and the Muse – Cantus, Chorus of the Furies
• Finisterra – Totus Floreo
• Franco Battiato – Delenda Carthago
• Fullmetal Alchemist – Lapis Philosophorum
• Globus – Preliator, Diem Ex Dei
• Haggard – Pestilencia
• HAL Laboratory – Super Smash Bros. Brawl main theme
• Helium Vola – Omnis Mundi Creatura, Omnia Sol Temperat, Nummus, Veni Veni *
• Highland – Bella Stella
• H. P. Lovecraft - Gloria Patria
• I Am Ghost – The Denouement
• Industrial Monk – Magnificat *
• Itou Kanako - Lamento
• Jacula – Praesentia Domini
• Yuki Kajiura – Salva Nos
• Kronos – Magica Europa, Party's (Partius?) Deorum
• Lacrimas Profundere – Priamus
• Lesiem – Fortitudo, Caritas, Fundamentum, Justitia, Invidia, Una terra, Occultum, Vivere, Liberta, Mater Gloria, Veni Creator Spiritus, Lacrimosa, Floreat, In Taberna Mori, Ave Fortuna, Agnus Dei, Pater Patriae, Navigator, Africa, Roma, Britannia, Coloris, Aureus, Diva, Paradisus, Poeta, Humilitas, Temperantia, Fides, Patientia, Spes, Prudentia, Vanitas, Bonitas *
• Libera – Gaudete, Sacris Solemnis, Sempiterna, Sanctus, Ave Maria, Recordare, Locus Iste, Stabat, Luminosa, Agnus Dei, Sancta, Angelis, Lux Aeterna, Ave Verum
• Magic Kingdom – Metallic Tragedy
• Mama Ladilla – Cunnilingus post mortem Fortitudo '
• Mecano - No es Serio este Cementerio
• Mediaeval Baebes – Salva Nos, Gaudete, Ecce Mundi Gaudium, Miseria Nomine, Verbum Caro, Veni, Veni *
• Alan Menken - Hellfire
• The Misfits – Halloween II
• Mister Mister - Kyrie Eleison
• My Ruin – Momento Mori
• Kumiko Noma – Lilium (Elfen Lied)
• Rona Nishliu – Suus
• Rosenstolz – Amo Vitam
• Sinéad O'Connor – Regina caeli, O filii et filiae
• Origa – Inner Universe
• Qntal – Ad mortem festinamus, Flamma, Omnis mundi illuminate, Stella splendens *
• Yoko Shimomura – Somnus
• Simon and Garfunkel – Benedictus
• Sopor Aeternus – Modela est
• Cat Stevens – O Caritas
• The Streets – Memento Mori
• Tanzwut – Toccato, Caupona, Fatue
• Theatre of tragedy – Venus
• This Ascension – Gloria in Excelsis
• Ticklish Brother – Ficos et Olivas
• Tura Satana (band) – Omnia Vinat Amor
• U2 – Gloria
• Nobuo Uematsu – Advent: One-Winged Angel, Divinity, Liberi Fatali, One-Winged Angel, Yakusoku no chi ~The Promised Land~
• Unto Ashes – Quid Vides, Estuans Interius *
• Rufus Wainwright – Agnus Dei
• Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque
• Akiko Shikata – HOLLOW, Agnus Dei
• Haruka Shimotsuki – Key of Paradise
• Keiki Kobayashi – The Unsung War (Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War)
• Paul Mottram – Tempestus
• Jesper Kyd - Apocalypse

Notes

• * These artists have recorded a significant body of work in Latin. Titles given are representative or well known.
• † This symbol indicates a hit single.

Other music

• The early music ensemble Rondellus has performed acoustic renditions of Black Sabbath songs in Latin.
• Dr. Jukka Ammondt has performed a number of songs by Elvis Presley translated into Latin.

References