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ROTTING CHRIST Announce New Album Professional Xristoy
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Rotting Christ have stood the check of time. Whereas their title has triggered loads of gatekeepers to clutch their pearls, Sakis Tolis and has brother Themis have ascended from Greece’s blackened catacombs to one among steel’s most formidable bands.
This 12 months, Rotting Christ are celebrating 35 years of evil excellence with their 14th album. ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ (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 (“Earlier than Christ”), the band pay tribute to the final of the Pagan kings by providing up extra towering, gothic, melodic black steel.
Now that Rotting Christ are closing in on 4 many years, some followers would possibly’ve questioned if there was any sacred floor left for them to beat. However Professional Xristoy is a testomony to a band that is nonetheless on the rise.
Professional Xristory comes out Could 24.
Monitor-list
1. Professional Xristoy (Προ Χριστού) (1:29)
2. The Apostate (5:01)
3. Like Father, Like Son (4:35)
4. The Sixth Day (3:56)
5. La Lettera Del Diavolo (4:01)
6. The Farewell (6:15)
7. Pix Lax Dax (4:33)
8. Fairly World, Fairly Dies (4:51)
9. Yggdrasil (5:04)
10. Saoirse (6:17)
11. Primal Resurrection (Bonus Monitor) (5:32)
12. All For One (Bonus Monitor) (3:37)
Complete runtime: 55:17
Pre-orders for the brand new album will begin subsequent month.
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To kick off what’s shaping as much as be a 12 months’s price of devilish festivities, Rotting Christ are heading off on a tour of Latin America. Followers from Mexico to Argentina can 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 grow to be setlist staples.
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Within the dimly lit catacombs of maximum steel, one title stands as a monolith: ROTTING CHRIST. Sakis Tholis and his brother Themis began this band collectively again in 1987. Within the three many years since, these Greek titans have left their blackened imprint all around the steel 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 steel, however to maintain reinventing themselves alongside the best way.
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 steel. Their albums typically embrace refined gothic soundscapes, solely to plunge again into the depths of blasphemous fervour. Every chapter marked one other, additional exploration, and an unwavering dedication to bush boundaries.
However the true turning level got here in 2007, when Rotting Christ signed a pact with Season of Mist. They unleashed a sequence of albums for the French label that defied any and all expectations. From the piercing Theogonia and the symphonic grandeur of Aelo to the ritualistic depth of Κατά Τον Δαίμονα Εαυτού, the cinematic experiences created by Rotting Christ grew to become a spectacle of bombastic atmospheres, mesmerizing choirs, and neo-classical preparations. The sudden is their modus operandi, with the usage of numerous languages (Latin, Arabic, Greek, English) in addition to the in depth use of well-known poetry woven into their music, like Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ on The Heretics.
In 2019, Rotting Christ’s epic journey continued with The Apocryphal Spell compilation, which provides followers an intimate glimpse into unreleased and uncommon materials. This allowed them to assemble power, getting ready for the discharge of their subsequent, extremely anticipated, 14th full-length studio album: Professional Xristoy.
Professional Xristoy (‘Earlier than Christ’ in Greek), serves as a fervent tribute to the final Pagan kings who resisted the onslaught of Christianity, guarding their historic values and data. On this thematic odyssey, intricately woven via tracks reminiscent of ‘The Apostate’ and ‘Ygdrassil’, Rotting Christ delves into the legacies of historic figures reminiscent of Flavius Claudius Julianus and Nordic mythological kings, embodying the would possibly of Pagan knowledge within the face of Christian adversity. The album encapsulates the essence of Rotting Christ’s signature type – melodic, but harsh at instances – reinventing themselves but once more, whereas remaining rooted of their 35-year legacy.
Line-up
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’)
Recording Studio
Deva Sounds Studios (Athens, Greece)
Producer
Sakis Tolis
Sound Engineer
Fotis Bernando
Aggelos Karatzas
Mixing
Jens Borgen at Fascination Avenue Studios (Örebro, Sweden)
Mastering
Tony Lidgren at Fascination Avenue Studios (Örebro, Sweden)
Art work Artists
Thomas Cole – Art work
Adrien Bousson – Digital Processing
Biography
Sebastien Gamez
Hyperlinks:
Official Web site: https://www.rotting-christ.com/en
Fb: https://www.fb.com/rottingchristofficial/
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/rottingchristofficial/
Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/athanatoieste
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/person/RottingChristOfficia
Bandcamp: https://rottingchristofficial.bandcamp.com/
Apple Music: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/rotting-christ/id28441629
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7FhkwcO8Jd7BRWdllBpXBJ
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