Sanctus Diavolos

Sanctus Diavolos

Track Listings

1. Visions of a Blind Order

2. Thy Wings Thy Horns Thy Sin

3. Athanati Este

4. Tyrannical

5. You My Cross

6. Sanctimonius

7. Serve in Heaven

8. Shades of Evil

9. Doctrine

10. Sanctus Diavolos

Sanctus Diavolos,Rotting Christ,Century Media,Death Metal/Black Metal,Greece,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock,Symphonic Black Metal

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Smooth and evolved Greek Black Metal

Sanctus Diavolos-Greek for butt-kicking

Hope they maintain this path.

What happened?

Sanctus Diavolos
Rotting Christ
Manufacturer: Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Greece | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000654YM4
Release Date: 2004-11-02

Tracks:

Visions of a Blind Order
Thy Wings Thy Horns Thy Sin
Athanati Este
Tyrannical
You My Cross
Sanctimonius
Serve in Heaven
Shades of Evil
Doctrine
Sanctus Diavolos

Customer Reviews:

Smooth and evolved Greek Black Metal.......2007-01-18

Rotting Christ has evolved into one Helluva solid Black Metal act. After many albums and many more lineup changes Rotting Christ has worked their way into the pantheon of such greats as Satyricon, Emperor and DarkThrone. All the while forging a sound unique to the Greek underground. This album is not as raw as Rotting Christ's older works, nor does it have the slower, more gothic overtones of the records that came immediately before it. Sanctus Diavolos is more of a fusion and maturing of Rotting Christ's old and new sounds. Highly recommended.

Sanctus Diavolos-Greek for butt-kicking.......2006-11-16

Rotting Christ is a unique black metal band. they incorporate melody into their sound. three other BM bands that are melodic that come to mind are Dimmu Borgir, Borknagar, and Kovenant, but this is about Rotting Christ. they have a photo in this album that isn't corny like many black metal bands have been accused of. they are one of several black metal bands that associate themselves with culture in addition to speedy riffs. I thoroughly enjoyed this album and I hope to hear more from them.

.......2005-09-04

Having ignored this band all these years for having softened up their sound big time and turning into an unispired gothic band, I was surprised to hear their latest offering, and liking what I heard. Having been one of the first bands to establish the Greek black metal sound, it seems like these last few years they are simply content in being a dark metal band. This in itself does not limit their musiacl options. Sure, they're still playing the same gothic style of metal, and while this doesn't come close to the greatness of their full length debut Thy mighty contract, this new effort offers a few surprises and some advanced songwriting. No matter what influence they decide to incorporate, like the churh choir-like vocal passages on "Sanctimonous" to the technical implications of "Tyrannical", it all sounds fitting and appropiate. Each track has its own personality, accompanied by extremely demonic disturbances, thanks in part to the warm, discernable production and discerning keyboard moments. I feel there's an audience for records like these. Their efforts in trying to keep themselves fresh are plausible. The desire to advance is there, but their original impetus seems to have faded into obscurity.

Hope they maintain this path........2005-05-16

Rotting Christ always a great mood setting melodic dark metal band. I have to say this album is far superior to anything they done and I always though Triarchy of the Lost Lovers was their best. Well the changed that for me. This album has so much experimenting on it that it's not funny. They added some dark wave ambient noise qualities to this album. Just listen to Tyrannical for instance. The ambient bass beats are just down right weird. ON Visions of a Blind order we has some weird screeching sound. It's like the album is possessed or something. I love it. I really hope they do this on future releases. Actually alot of black metal bands are doing stuff like this now days. We had Mayhem experiment some. Then of course we have the strange Arcturus with their space metal opera sounds. Then Samael has incorporated techno into their sound. However unlike some of these band Rotting Christ has not entirely morphed into a avant gard blackened industrial band. They only use the sounds to emphisize their music and never letting it fully consume the basic quality of the music. That is the melodic hypnotic guitar sounds Sakis always performes. This album sounds more like a soundtrack for some exorcisim movie. I say this rivals Behemoth's Demigod album. Yet another album that sounds like a soundtrack to some Egyptian or Roman war movie.

What happened?.......2005-05-05

In the past you could always count on Rotting Christ to come up with reliable yet unremarkable black/death metal albums. Sanctus Diavolos starts out with a bang. 'Visions of a Blind Disorder' is one of the greatest songs ever recorded: a triumphant brutal, complex, dark, wicked- yes even- evil symphony with gorgeous melodies reminiscent of Dissection. Unfortunately, the rest of the album however falls flat in comparison with that masterpiece- slow, tedious, and somewhat lame. Had RC kept on with that style of song this album could have been great. The rest of the songs seem to have been composed and performed by someone else- that's how different and disappointing they are. As it stands, it is not easy to recommend an entire album for one spectacular song.

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