New ROTTING CHRIST Album To Feature Guest Appearance By DIAMANDA GALAS

Greece's Metalzone.gr attended a special listening session for ROTTING CHRIST's as-yet-untitled new CD on November 1, 2009 at Athens' Grindhouse Studio (owned by RC guitarist George Bokos). A posting on the site reads, "The album was recorded on Greek grounds, under the Olympus Mountain between July and October 2009 in Lunatech Studios. Production duties were once more handled by Sakis [Tolis, guitar/vocals].

"For the first time we will listen to a lot of guest appearances which make the final result even more interesting. First of all, after all these years we listen to Magus (NECROMANTIA) again in ROTTING CHRIST. Alan from PRIMORDIAL guests in one track of the album giving a shivering effect and then there is the guest appearance of the multi-vocal traditional choir from Ipiros (in Greece's mainland) called Pliades which sings traditional Greek songs that used to be sang in funerals. There is also the guest appearance of Daemonia Nymphe who enhance the ancient Greek element to the sound of ROTTING CHRIST as the theatrical band DIRTY GRANNY TALES which makes the result even darker, haunting and mysterious. As if these all weren't enough, one more surprise is added up to the new album to blow out everything we thought we could expect from the next ROTTING CHRIST album and be left in awe. The one and only, unique Diamanda Galas give an even more intriguing effect to whole album. One song of hers, 'Order From The Dead', in which Sakis took out the bare vocal lines and composed music upon in an absolute breathtaking outcome. A unique song which refers to the Destruction Of Smyrna."

Read more and check out photos from the recording and listening sessions at Metalzone.gr.

ROTTING CHRIST released its long-awaited 2DVD + 2CD digipack, "Non Serviam - A 20 Year Apocryphal Story", in Europe in February via Season of Mist. The set, which was released in the U.S. in May, features the band's most popular and classic songs, including some rare treats, to celebrate their special 20th anniversary show in their hometown Athens in front of a fanatic audience in December 2007. Completing the package is a bonus DVD filled with extra footage from the "Sanctus Diavolos" and "Theogonia" tours, an interview with frontman Sakis Tolis telling the story of the band, bootlegs live videos, promotional clips and much more. Last but not least, these five hours of video are backed by two audio CDs taking up 25 tracks from the Athens show plus seven exclusive tracks recorded live in February 2007 at B-Live in Larisa, Greece.