Necros Christos (

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νεκρός Χριστός for 'Dead Christ') was a German death doom band from

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. The band was founded in 2001 and is under contract to

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. The group has released three studio albums.

History

The band released three demo and two rehearsal recordings as well as several EPs and singles in the first years. Actually, the first demo ''Necromantic Doom'' should be the band's only release. In 2006, the band got signed by Sepulchral Voice Records, and a year later, the debut album ''Triune Impurity Rites'' was released.Frank Stöver
''NECROS CHRISTOS''
. Soon, the drummer Luciferus Christhammer left the band and was replaced by Raelin Iakhu. Over a period of four years, the musicians worked on their second album ''Doom of the Occult'', which was released in the spring of 2011 and was well received by the press. In 2018, the band published ''Domedon Doxomedon'', the third studio album. It was announced by the band that the album is intended to be their final album. The album peaked at #90 in the German charts. They announced in 2021 that they are splitting up. Mors Dalos Ra and drummer Iván Hernández would then shift their focus to their Death-thrash project Sijjin.

Style

The music of Necros Christos renounces high speeds, blast beats and demonstrations of the technical skills of the musicians, and instead focuses on "slow, simple, panzer-like heaviness in conjunction with sinister growls and a strange, indefinable occult quality". In the context of the metal subculture, singer and songwriter Mors Dalos Ra sees the band more in the tradition of bands like

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and

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in their occult orientation than in the modern-sounding, blastbeat-heavy

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bands. His musical inspiration, however, comes more from the Eastern folklore, especially

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and the

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countries. As a further important source he gives

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and German

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and old occult 1960s / 1970s rock like

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or Salem Mass, as well as

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.Nate Poblete: . Mors Dalos Ra also writes the lyrics for Necros Christos. While his occult interests and studies are primarily

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-related, most texts deal with inverted

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stories, the Apocalypse in the

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, ancient middle Eastern cultures, the mysteries of death, necromancy, black masses and copulation, mixed with his own experiences. Mors Dalos Ra explains the name of the band as another name of the amorphous entity of extreme damnation and darkness, the black brother of Christ, who is already known by names such as Ishtar, Ahriman, Shaitan, Satan and Lucifer.

Discography

Demos

* 2002: ''Necromantic Doom'' * 2003: ''Black Mass Desecration'' * 2004: ''Ritual Doom Rehearsal'' * 2004: ''Grave Damnation'' * 2004: ''Ritual Crucifixion''

Studio albums

* 2007: '' Triune Impurity Rites'' * 2011: '' Doom of the Occult'' * 2018: '' Domedon Doxomedon''

Live albums

* 2014: ''Darkness Comes To...Live!''

EPs and singles

* 2004: ''Curse of the Necromantical Sabbath'' * 2004: ''Baptized by the Black Urine of the Deceased'' * 2005: Split EP with

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* 2006: Split EP with Teitanblood * 2014: ''Nine Graves''

References

External links

* {{Authority control German death metal musical groups German doom metal musical groups Musical groups established in 2001 Musical groups from Berlin Musical groups disestablished in 2021