Sunday, April 22, 2007

ROTTING CHRIST - Theogonia [2007, Season Of Mist] (Album review)


This is the tenth LP for Greek pioneer metallers ROTTING CHRIST. It's their first concept album that has to do with the birth of Gods in Ancient Greek Mythology. Musically speaking it is the one of the fourth best albums they have ever made. It's simply perfect. It combines all the things that made them famous to their fans with some new staff from greek folk music.

The album has a lot of metal riffs (so many only Triarchy had) that makes the concept to seem to have be borned in ..Hell. The vocals are exactly as they had to be, the bass lines the same and of course the drums seems to be played from another drummer not Themis ( He had to play like this for many years, congratulations!!). The music seems the darkest ever and the black metal feeling back in roots!! It's amazing 20 years later Sakis has made an album that can show to a lot of new bands the way of playing excellent Brutal Metal.

They recorded, mixed, produced and mastered this album here in Greece of course by Sakis Tolis with the help of Aris Christou the owner of SCA studios in Athens in a hot summer of 2006. Horns Up metal brothers & sisters!!



ROTTING CHRIST discography :

1991 Passage to Arcturo (Decapitated Records)
1993 Thy Mighty Contract (Osmose Productions)
1994 Non Serviam (Unisound Records)
1996 Triarchy of the Lost Lovers (Century Media Records)
1997 A Dead Poem (Century Media Records)
1999 Sleep of the Angels (Century Media Records)
2000 Khronos Χ Ξ Σ (Century Media Records)
2002 Genesis (Century Media Records)
2004 Sanctus Diavolos (Century Media Records)
2007 Theogonia (Season Of Mist Records)

1 comment:

Draugar6 said...

Theogonia is the best album that Rotting Christ created the last ten years. It has all that components that made them famous and us to love 'em. Keep the dark cult alive!!!