Greek excessive metallers ROTTING CHRIST are celebrating their thirty fifth anniversary with the discharge of their 14th album. Due on Could 24 by way of Season Of Mist, “Professional Xristoy” is sure to carry a revered place within the band’s heretical historical past. All the time true to their title, with “Professional Xristoy” the members of ROTTING CHRIST pay tribute to the final of the Pagan kings by providing up extra towering, gothic, melodic black metallic.
Now that ROTTING CHRIST are closing in on 4 many years, some followers would possibly’ve puzzled if there was any sacred floor left for them to overcome. However “Professional Xristoy” is a testomony to a band that is nonetheless on the rise.
“This album was impressed by the would possibly of historic pagan knowledge”, says guitarist/vocalist Sakis Tolis. “It is a tribute to those that resisted the approaching of Christianity, which destroyed all of the values, traditions and data of the traditional world”.
“Professional Xristoy” observe itemizing:
01. Professional Xristoy (1:29)
02. The Apostate (5:01)
03. Like Father, Like Son (4:35)
04. The Sixth Day (3:56)
05. La Lettera Del Diavolo (4:01)
06. The Farewell (6:15)
07. Pix Lax Dax (4:33)
08. Fairly World, Fairly Dies (4:51)
09. Yggdrasil (5:04)
10. Saoirse (6:17)
11. Primal Resurrection (bonus observe) (5:32)
12. All For One (bonus observe) (3:37)
Recording lineup:
Sakis Tolis: Guitar/Vocals
Themis Tolis: Drums
Kostas “Spades” Heliotis: Bass
Kostis Fouk: Guitar
Visitor musicians:
* Amdroniki Skoula – Vocals (on “La Letra Del Diavolo”)
* Nikos Kerkiras – Keyboard
* Christina Alexiou – Choir
* Maria Tsironi – Choir
* Alexandros Loyziotis – Choir
* Vasilis Karatzas – Choir
* Andrew Liles – Narration (on “The Apostate”, “Fairly World, Fairly Dies”)
* Kim Diaz Holm – Narration (on “Ygdrassil”)
To kick off what’s shaping as much as be a 12 months’s price of devilish festivities, ROTTING CHRIST is heading off on a tour of Latin America in early February. Followers from Mexico to Argentina could have the pleasure of banging their heads to an unholy litany of the band’s best hits. They’re going to even be handled to new songs off “Professional Xristoy” which are sure to change into setlist staples.
Sakis and his brother Themis began ROTTING CHRIST again in 1987. Within the three many years since, these Greek titans have left their blackened imprint all around the metallic world. They’ve launched 13 studio albums and performed greater than 1,3000 concert events across the globe. Beneath all this tough work, ROTTING CHRIST have however one imaginative and prescient — an urge to not solely push the boundaries of maximum metallic, however to maintain reinventing themselves alongside the way in which.
ROTTING CHRIST‘s evolution has unfolded throughout a number of distinct chapters. After beginning out nearer to the hardly managed chaos of grindcore, they went on to determine the long-lasting sound of Hellenic black metallic. Their albums usually embrace refined gothic soundscapes, solely to plunge again into the depths of blasphemous fervor. Every chapter marked one other, additional exploration, and an unwavering dedication to bush boundaries.
Picture by Chantik Pictures (courtesy of Season Of Mist)
