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8.0
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the lost lovers
Info
Track list
1. King of a Stellar War
2. A Dynasty From the Ice
3. Archon
4. Snowing Still
5. Shadows Follow
6. One With the Forest
7. Diastric Alchemy
8. The Opposite Bank
9. The First Field of the Battle
Label
Country
Greece
Released
1996
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Line up
Necromayhem - Guitar, vocals
Jim Mutilator - Bass
Necrosauron - Drums
With a mix between darkness and evil, the Greeks of Rotting Christ get farther away from their crude black metal sound and get inside a wider variety of sounds that can be easily call dark metal.

The first track of this album is the longest one and is not a masterpiece, but it manages to get your attention with melodic riffs and razorblade vocal work, this song is definitely a step forward for the band musically speaking, they sound more mature and conscious about the work they should placed on composing every single song. This is not a fast or brutal album, but it has that special taste that creates a whole scenario for you as you listen to it, the black metal vocal work keeps every song heavy even when the guitars are not.

Every song in this record has a proper length, about four minutes average; the guitar riffs change in the right moments and the drums from time to time try to accelerate things reminding us of a more thrash sound, but they never get away his this, and instantly return to their normal speed before the vocal intervene. The atmosphere sometimes created by the guitar work resembles a frizzing wind, kind of dramatic but very well done. There are big gaps between every intervention from Sakis in the songs, an effect that slows the whole album but creates some sort of expectation.

The general sound is clear but was produced to resemble a more “underground” sound, a quality that fits perfectly with the whole dark feeling of the record. If you like melodic black metal, gothic metal or simply an album that gives you a atmosphere around you, then you should buy this production.

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