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The haunting title track, performed in German, stands as one of their most unusual and hypnotic compositions, weaving gothic textures with industrial undertones. Alongside it, “Moonlight” leans further into melancholic, dark rock sensibilities, foreshadowing the band’s future explorations. Completing the release, a selection of raw live recordings revisits the intensity of the ‘Triarchy of the Lost Lovers’ era, preserving the band’s visceral stage presence in its most unfiltered form.\u003cbr\u003eNow reissued, this edition presents a long-overlooked chapter of ROTTING CHRIST’s legacy, essential for dedicated followers and collectors alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of NIGHTFALL, MOONSPELL, SEPTICFLESH, PRIMORDIAL, VARATHRON.\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Stephen Kasner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eSide A: Der Perfekte Traum \/ Moonlight \/ Shadows Follow (Live in Europe 1996) \/ Diastric Alchemy (Live in Europe 1996)\u003cbr\u003eSide B: A Dynasty From the Ice (Live in Europe 1996) \/ The First Field of the Battle (Live in Europe 1996) \/ King of a Stellar War (Live in Europe 1996)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53016382505257,"sku":"P-65889-177158","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Rotting-Christ-Der-Perfekte-Traum-LP-Gatefold-65889-1-1773844535.jpg?v=1778077122"},{"product_id":"rotting-christ-der-perfekte-traum-lp-gatefold-colored","title":"Rotting Christ - Der Perfekte Traum - LP Gatefold Colored","description":"\u003cp\u003eGold, orange and black marbled 12\" vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold.\u003cbr\u003eLimited to 200 copies worldwide!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForged in Athens’ underground, ROTTING CHRIST have spent almost four decades shaping the sound and spirit of Hellenic extreme metal. 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Completing the release, a selection of raw live recordings revisits the intensity of the ‘Triarchy of the Lost Lovers’ era, preserving the band’s visceral stage presence in its most unfiltered form.\u003cbr\u003eNow reissued, this edition presents a long-overlooked chapter of ROTTING CHRIST’s legacy, essential for dedicated followers and collectors alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of NIGHTFALL, MOONSPELL, SEPTICFLESH, PRIMORDIAL, VARATHRON.\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Stephen Kasner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eSide A: Der Perfekte Traum \/ Moonlight \/ Shadows Follow (Live in Europe 1996) \/ Diastric Alchemy (Live in Europe 1996)\u003cbr\u003eSide B: A Dynasty From the Ice (Live in Europe 1996) \/ The First Field of the Battle (Live in Europe 1996) \/ King of a Stellar War (Live in Europe 1996)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53016386044201,"sku":"P-65890-177159","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Rotting-Christ-Der-Perfekte-Traum-LP-Gatefold-Colored-65890-1-1773844575.jpg?v=1778077100"},{"product_id":"rotting-christ-sleep-of-the-angels-lp-gatefold","title":"Rotting Christ - Sleep of the Angels - LP Gatefold","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack 12\" vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold sleeve.\u003cbr\u003eFirst pressing 300 copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormed in Athens in 1987, ROTTING CHRIST are one of extreme metal's most enduring and shape-shifting acts—architects of a sound that has moved restlessly between black metal, gothic atmosphere, and dark ritualism across nearly four decades.\u003cbr\u003e‘Sleep of the Angels’ (1999) is the culmination of a deliberate artistic turn: the Greek duo's fifth full-length finds brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis at the furthest point from their black metal origins, delivering a record defined by melodic weight, brooding atmosphere, and a gloomy romanticism that feels both immersive and self-contained. Produced by Samael’s Xy at Woodhouse Studios, the album is built around the interplay of Sakis's heavily chorded guitar work and a constant, gauzy keyboard presence that lends the whole record an almost ecclesiastical quality. Vocals shift between a characteristic snarl and a lower, whispered clean register, adding an intimate tension that runs beneath the surface throughout. From the sweeping martial drive of \"Cold Colours\" and the seductive menace of lead single \"After Dark I Feel\", to the gothic grandeur of \"Victoriatus\" and the closing epic \"Thine Is the Kingdom\", the record moves as a unified whole.\u003cbr\u003eIt is the band's most gothic-focused statement, and for a generation of listeners who came up on dark metal's late-'90s golden moment, it remains one of those albums that returns to you before you think to return to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of NIGHTFALL, MOONSPELL, SEPTICFLESH, PRIMORDIAL, VARATHRON.\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Stephen Kasner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eSide A: Cold Colours \/ After Dark I Feel \/ Victoriatus \/ Der Perfekte Traum \/ You My Flesh\u003cbr\u003eSide B: The World Made End \/ Sleep the Sleep of Angels \/ Delusions \/ Imaginary Zone \/ Thine Is the Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53016389910825,"sku":"P-65997-177663","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Rotting-Christ-Sleep-of-the-Angels-LP-Gatefold-65997-1-1774965342.jpg?v=1778157320"},{"product_id":"rotting-christ-sleep-of-the-angels-lp-gatefold-colored","title":"Rotting Christ - Sleep of the Angels - LP Gatefold Colored","description":"\u003cp\u003eGold 12\" vinyl (33 rpm) with black splatters in gatefold.\u003cbr\u003eLimited to 200 copies worldwide!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormed in Athens in 1987, ROTTING CHRIST are one of extreme metal's most enduring and shape-shifting acts—architects of a sound that has moved restlessly between black metal, gothic atmosphere, and dark ritualism across nearly four decades.\u003cbr\u003e‘Sleep of the Angels’ (1999) is the culmination of a deliberate artistic turn: the Greek duo's fifth full-length finds brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis at the furthest point from their black metal origins, delivering a record defined by melodic weight, brooding atmosphere, and a gloomy romanticism that feels both immersive and self-contained. Produced by Samael’s Xy at Woodhouse Studios, the album is built around the interplay of Sakis's heavily chorded guitar work and a constant, gauzy keyboard presence that lends the whole record an almost ecclesiastical quality. Vocals shift between a characteristic snarl and a lower, whispered clean register, adding an intimate tension that runs beneath the surface throughout. From the sweeping martial drive of \"Cold Colours\" and the seductive menace of lead single \"After Dark I Feel\", to the gothic grandeur of \"Victoriatus\" and the closing epic \"Thine Is the Kingdom\", the record moves as a unified whole.\u003cbr\u003eIt is the band's most gothic-focused statement, and for a generation of listeners who came up on dark metal's late-'90s golden moment, it remains one of those albums that returns to you before you think to return to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of NIGHTFALL, MOONSPELL, SEPTICFLESH, PRIMORDIAL, VARATHRON.\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Stephen Kasner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eSide A: Cold Colours \/ After Dark I Feel \/ Victoriatus \/ Der Perfekte Traum \/ You My Flesh\u003cbr\u003eSide B: The World Made End \/ Sleep the Sleep of Angels \/ Delusions \/ Imaginary Zone \/ Thine Is the Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53016395088169,"sku":"P-65998-177664","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Rotting-Christ-Sleep-of-the-Angels-LP-Gatefold-Colored-65998-1-1774953663.jpg?v=1778157349"},{"product_id":"rotting-christ-khronos-double-lp-gatefold","title":"Rotting Christ - Khronos - DOUBLE LP Gatefold","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack 12\" double vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold sleeve.\u003cbr\u003eFirst pressing 300 copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded in Athens in 1987 by brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis, ROTTING CHRIST spent over a decade carving out a singular place in European extreme metal—moving from black metal's rawer edges through a series of increasingly atmospheric and gothic-tinged records that expanded their reach without diluting their identity. Khronos, originally released in 2000 and now reissued by Season of Mist, marks the end of that particular arc: a closing statement on the band's gothic era before they began the turn toward even darker and more mythologically charged territory.\u003cbr\u003eThe album occupies an uneasy, productive tension between the aggression of Rotting Christ's earlier years and the atmospheric refinement they had developed across the late 1990s. Recorded in the dead of a Nordic winter at Sweden's Abyss Studios, Khronos carries that cold in its production; something more subdued and ambient than its predecessor, with keyboards pushed back beneath the guitars rather than riding above them, and an overall texture that leans toward shadow rather than sheen. Tracks like \"Thou Art Blind\" and \"Aeternatus\" land with a ferocity not heard since Thy Mighty Contract, blunt, fast and uncompromising, while \"My Sacred Path,\" \"Art of Sin,\" and the title track hold onto the melodic intelligence of the gothic years, threading dark wave undercurrents through their slower, more insinuating structures. The closing \"Glory of Sadness\" stretches past eleven minutes, eventually giving way to an industrial-inflected hidden passage that signals, in its own oblique way, that a door is about to close.\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, the album resists easy categorisation; neither a full return to roots nor a continuation of its predecessor's path, but something stranger and more considered sitting between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of MOONSPELL, TIAMAT, SAMAEL.\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Seth Siro Anton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eSide A: Thou Art Blind \/ If It Ends Tomorrow \/ My Sacred Path\u003cbr\u003eSide B: Aeternatus \/ Art of Sin \/ Lucifer Over London \/ Law of the Serpent\u003cbr\u003eSide C: You Are I \/ Khronos \/ Fateless\u003cbr\u003eSide D: Time Stands Still \/ Glory of Sadness\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53149746364713,"sku":"P-66249-178686","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Rotting-Christ-Khronos-DOUBLE-LP-Gatefold-66249-1-1778491701.jpg?v=1778491834"},{"product_id":"rotting-christ-khronos-double-lp-gatefold-colored","title":"Rotting Christ - Khronos - DOUBLE LP GATEFOLD COLORED","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrystal clear and turquoise marbled 12\" double vinyl (33rpm) in gatefold.\u003cbr\u003eLimited to 200 copies worldwide!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded in Athens in 1987 by brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis, ROTTING CHRIST spent over a decade carving out a singular place in European extreme metal—moving from black metal's rawer edges through a series of increasingly atmospheric and gothic-tinged records that expanded their reach without diluting their identity. 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Tracks like \"Thou Art Blind\" and \"Aeternatus\" land with a ferocity not heard since Thy Mighty Contract, blunt, fast and uncompromising, while \"My Sacred Path,\" \"Art of Sin,\" and the title track hold onto the melodic intelligence of the gothic years, threading dark wave undercurrents through their slower, more insinuating structures. 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Produced by Andy Classen at Stage One Studios in Germany, the album carries a tight, punchy sound: booming bass, controlled guitar distortion, and a drum mix that serves the music without overwhelming it. Gregorian chant passages weave through the faster sections, the band's characteristic start-stop rhythmic syncopation runs throughout, and Sakis delivers some of his most commanding vocal performances to date. Tracks like \"Daemons\", \"Lex Talionis\", and the emotionally charged \"Ad Noctis\", which later appeared on the Brütal Legend video game soundtrack, showcase the band operating at peak compositional confidence, while \"Release Me\" and \"Dying\" sit among the stronger moments of their entire middle period. 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