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Nati sotto il segno dell’isolamento musicale, nella Grecia di fine anni ottanta, che corrispondeva ad una sorta di terzo mondo dell’heavy metal, i Rotting Christ sono riusciti ad emergere con uno stile proprio che ha permesso loro di costruire una lunga carriera ed anche dare il via ad una scena musicale nazionale, quella del black metal ellenico, a torto trascurata.
Lontani dai freddi venti del nord, che soffiavano imperterriti su Norvegia e Svezia, dove l’oscura fiamma del metallo nero cominciava a bruciare, insieme ad altro come è noto ai più, nell’assolata Grecia il gruppo dei fratelli Tolis creava la propria musica estremizzando ciò che i Celtic Frost e gli altri gruppi pionieri di quegli anni avevano fin lì espresso. Ne risulta un thrash metal molto rinvigorito, con ritmi particolarmente squadrati e marziali, accompagnati dallo screaming afono di Sakis Tolis, nel quale comunque è presente una timida vena melodica che prevarrà poi a partire dalla svolta gothic di metà anni novanta. Quindi niente riff gelidi e lancinanti, niente produzione ultraschifosa del tipo ci siamo rinchiusi in un capanno abbandonato in un bosco in pieno inverno per registrare il nostro maligno capolavoro, niente atmosfera da oscuro bosco nel quale si trova il suddetto capanno e, per quanto ne sappia io, nemmeno niente corpse paint. In sostanza niente true norvegian black metal.
Però molta epicità e in un certo senso anche maestosità.
Basta ascoltare “Transform All Suffering into Plagues”, dal debutto “Thy Mighty Contract” (1993) per constatarlo.
Comunque c’è da dire che nonostante il gruppo fosse tagliato fuori geograficamente, il talent scout del black metal Euronymous li aveva adocchiati e voleva metterli sotto contratto per la sua etichetta, poi però non se ne fece niente a causa di un imprevisto. Un imprevisto di nome Burzum.
Ciò non impedì ai Rotting Christ di lasciare il segno nella storia del metal e di ispirare numerosi gruppi connazionali, tra i quali i più degni di nota sono Varathron, Thou Art Lord e Necromantia, in quella che può considerarsi la risposta mediterranea al dilagare del black metal nordico.
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01 The Sign of Evil Existence (02:00)
Oh south spirit
Remove the sea wind
Recall the first flame
Awake the beast under the snow
In three shades
The sign of evil existence
Engraved in rain
Above the circle where tyrants dwell
Summon Glohithia
Appear in the snake shape
Bring down upon me
For last time all forest's (secrets)
The sign of evil existence
In the four points of horizon
The secrets buried under smoky land
It'll take ages and ages come back
The wind is here now
The see is divided
The flame reburn inside me
The beast return in the snowy land
Summon Glohithia
Appear in the snake shape
Bring down upon me
For last time all forest's (secrets)
02 Transform All Suffering Into Plagues (05:25)
Million eyes and million souls
Never seen beyond the zone
As Charon proclaim the law
Winds come front, reveal the ones who gone
Transform all suffering into plagues
The slaves never seen beyond
Forever locked behind the rusty door
Naked suffer but they never die
In chains polluted, bless they alive
Wild annihilating riders
Made in bowels of the earth
Defend the chariot arise in tartar
On winged horses they attack
Transform all suffering into plagues
Transform all suffering into plagues
Mayhemic curses once predicted
Worthless humans beg their death
Eternal suffer miserables
The curse of Nath
The curse of Iostha
Walk through sensual rivers
An energy weakening sensations
Certainly infect the hypnotized target
Never stop to suffer
Miserables
Million eyes and million souls
Never seen beyond the zone
As Charon proclaim the law
Winds come front, reveal the ones who gone
Transform all suffering into plagues
03 Fgmenth, Thy Gift (04:29)
Seremoth, Levino, Alchemoth
In lust time come forth
Arise from the chaos nights
Thy majesty devour the son
Thy gift deserves you
The offer of Absu
Fgmenth beloved successor
See all dreams come true
Deliver us to him
Obey in the power create me
Inside my eyes your sight
Inside my mind your voice
A silent word attack me
It's called Razal Tach
The one connect our lifes
04 His Sleeping Majesty (05:50)
Broken faces behind the idol
Self sacrifce believers once (betrayed)
Those who disregarded (authorities)
In deadly position they offend
The junless domain
For ages and ages
Where his sleeping majesty
Under the black sand
Skeletoned shapes look lifeless
Thrones disappear in dusty (old centuries)
Where glory hide the myth
Nothing to see those who died
The junless domain
For ages and ages
Where his sleeping majesty
Under the black sand
Invaders who follow the legends
Spread mouth to mouth
Approach the phenomically quiet graveyard
Well hidden lonny sentinels
Around his sandy dwelling
Out of date carnivorous suvivorous
They offend his sleeping majesty
The events can be said by human words
So strength so hate to those who dare
They break the frontiers and they come
Now dust of melting bones
Mixed with the Sandy land
Broken faces behind the idol
Self sacrifce believers once (betrayed)
Those who disregarded (authorities)
In deadly position they offend
05 Exiled Archangels (05:07)
Fallen in decay
Inflowing shades
The oppressed revolt
Removed in dark spheres
Once exiled
Einthamoooo
Blessed...
In abyssia
Iria, Uthopia, come here
Believe in us and be like us
Taste the lusts and feed revenge
For those who dare exile you
Release all wrath, feel it
You're in the sixth communion
Never forget what happened
As marked you arrived
Since now
I name you under our cult
Enter the tunnel
Emit no emotion
Engaged with our hierarchy
Keep the mystic way to go
All father's treasure
The upcoming mighty contract
The sight of Therion
Incarnation
Illumination of darkness
Intuition
Angels who embraced
Attached to underworld
Proselytized in the land
They refuge
Exiled now survived
Exiled be opposed
Immigration in the Abyss
Immense to the heart
06 Dive the Deepest Abyss (03:33)
In front of me, the red ocean
Where no limits, no motion below
A mystic way to underworld
For million years and more
So wild call me
To fall down
Its red waves await me
Show me where I belong
Painted in colours
Mesmerised in purple
I trespass with no fear
Frontiers and doubts
Above the highest
Teach me where
All powers come from
Tonight my voice will echo in Abyss
For years falling down
The doop I'm here for
The promises beyond
A new reality I adore
07 The Coronation of the Serpent (04:06)
It's the day of coronation
As the years passed (we celebrate)
The ultimate unholy domination
A tribute to the serpent king
In front of king I stare
At the golden crown
Half dressed the colourfull lined skin
He bows as the crown
Adore the naked head
The serpent all time creeps
In the name of Serpent
In the name of King
At the throne serpent lay
Eat (ravenously) raw fleshes
Sarcastic pay for human tribe
Among the flames the sky eyes
Coronation of the Serpent
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