The Passion of Dionysus is the fifteenth album by New York heavy/power metal group Virgin Steele, released via SPV/Steamhammer worldwide on June 30, 2023.

The concept album tells the story of the Greek god Dionysus and his coming to Thebes to avenge the slander of his mother how it is described in Euripides' tragic play, The Bacchae.

It explores the duality of the human emotional world between the rational and the irrational, thus taking up one of the most important themes of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

High quality music brought to us by an extremely dedicated David DeFeis, who did all of it, except for the guitar parts.

And I for one applaud him, because he has made “The Passion Of Dionysus” into a very good record, making sure that VIRGIN STEELE is once again noticed as a force to be reckoned with.