ROTTING CHRIST Sanctus Diavolos – Vinyl 2xLP (transparent yellow red black marble)

Pressing info : 2026 repress on transparent yellow red black marble vinyl 2xLP.

Yellow red black marbled 2-LP in gatefold cover. Limited to 200 copies. Cut at 45 rpm for optimum fidelity.

ROTTING CHRIST was formed in Athens in 1987, and the band has spent decades shaping the sound of Greek black metal. Their catalogue is widely regarded as one of the most consistently distinctive in the genre. Sanctus Diavolos, their eighth full-length album, remains a defining document of their history.

Following the departure of two of the band’s founding members, Sakis Tolis took sole command of guitars, keyboards and vocals. This singular authorship gives the album its unusually personal and unified character. The devil depicted in the album’s title is not the cold adversary of black metal convention, but rather Lucifer the light-bearer. He is portrayed in warm, seductive tones rather than through blasphemous provocation, and this reframing is evident throughout the record. Gothic melodicism and symphonic ambition come together here in full force, with a live eight-person choir arranged by Christos Antoniou of Septicflesh threaded through the arrangements, giving the album an operatic, cinematic quality. The result oscillates between aggressive, riff-driven black metal and passages of genuine tenderness, anchored by ‘Sanctimonious’, a brief string-and-choir interlude which remains one of the band’s most affecting moments committed to tape.

The sprawling, choir-drenched title track brings the album to a close, and ‘Sanctus Diavolos’ plays less like a collection of songs and more like a single, sustained arc. It is the most extreme and fully realised statement of that era in the band’s discography.

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