''Rituals'' is the twelfth full-length album by Greek
extreme metal
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band
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene. They are also responsible for creat ...
. It was released on 12 February 2016, via
Season of Mist
Season of Mist is an independent record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pag ...
. The album debuted at number 14 on the ''Billboard'' heatseekers album chart
and at number 10 on Ifpi Greek charts.
Track listing
Personnel
Rotting Christ
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Sakis Tolis
Athanasios "Sakis" Tolis ( el, Αθανάσιος "Σάκης" Τόλης; born 29 June 1972) is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Rotting Christ. He is also known as Necromayhem.
He has recently produced som ...
– vocals, guitars, bass,
keyboards, production,
mixing,
mastering
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Themis Tolis – drums
Additional personnel
*Vagelis Karzis – backing vocals
*George Emmanuel – backing vocals, lead guitar (track 3),
recording
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*Manolis Antzoletakis – backing vocals
*Giorgos Petratos – backing vocals
*Theodoros Aivaliotis – vocals (choir)
*Giannis Stamatakis – vocals (choir)
*Babis Alexandropoulos – vocals (choir)
*George Zacharopoulos – additional vocals (track 1)
*Danai Katsameni – additional vocals (track 3)
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Vorph
Michael Locher (born 7 January 1969), also known as Vorphalack or simply Vorph, is a Swiss musician who provides vocals and is a guitarist for the industrial/black metal band Samael.
Biography
Locher was born in Sion. He co-founded Samael i ...
– additional vocals (track 4)
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Nick Holmes
Nicholas John Arthur Holmes (born 7 January 1971) is an English singer, best known as the lead vocalist of British gothic metal/doom metal band Paradise Lost (band), Paradise Lost and Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.
History and style
Holm ...
– additional vocals (track 7)
*Kathir – additional vocals (track 9)
*Nikos Veletzas – percussion
*George Anamouroglou – percussion
*Fotis Benardo – percussion
*Alexandros Kalfakis – percussion
*Konstantis Mpistolis –
bagpipes
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(tracks 3, 9)
*Giorgos Nikas –
bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, ...
(tracks 3, 9)
*Nikola Nikita Jeremić – orchestration (tracks 1, 7)
Production
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Jens Bogren
Jens Peter Daniel Bogren (born 13 November 1979) is a Swedish record producer, mixer and recording engineer specializing in heavy metal music. He has worked on albums by Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Sepultura, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Katatonia, Bab ...
– mixing, mastering
*Adrien Bousson – layout
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Charts
References
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Rotting Christ albums
2016 albums
Season of Mist albums