Rituals (Rotting Christ album)

Rituals is the twelfth full-length album by Greek extreme metal band Rotting Christ. It was released on 12 February 2016, via Season of Mist. The album debuted at number 14 on the Billboard heatseekers album chart^[3] and at number 10 on Ifpi Greek charts.

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Track listing

All tracks are written by Sakis Tolis, except for "The Four Horsemen" by Aphrodite's Child and "Του θάνατου (Tou Thanatou)" by Nikos Xilouris; the lyrics for "For a Voice Like Thunder" have been taken from a dramatic piece, "King Edward the Fourth", by William Blake. The lyric of "Les Litanies de Satan" is taken directly from Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In Nomine Dei Nostri" (Latin for "In the Name of Our God")	4:57
2.	"זה נגמר (Ze Nigmar)" (Hebrew for "It's Over")	4:43
3.	"Ἐλθὲ κύριε (Elthe Kyrie)" (Greek for "Come Lord")	4:49
4.	"Les Litanies de Satan (Les Fleurs du Mal)" (French for "The Litanies of Satan (The Flowers of Evil)")	3:55
5.	"Ἄπαγε Σατανά (Apage Satana)" (Greek for "Begone, Satan")	3:50
6.	"Του θάνατου (Tou Thanatou)" (Greek for "Of Death")	3:37
7.	"For a Voice like Thunder"	6:11
8.	"Konx om Pax" (Greek for "Watch and do no harm"; Egyptian for "Light rushing out in a single ray")	6:21
9.	"देवदेवं (Devadevam)" (Sanskrit for "God of Gods")	5:18
10.	"The Four Horsemen"	5:24
Total length:		49:05

Digipak edition bonus track
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Lok'tar Ogar" (Warcraft Orcish for "Victory or Death")	4:25
Total length:		53:30

Personnel

Rotting Christ

Sakis Tolis – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, production, mixing, mastering
Themis Tolis – drums

Additional personnel

Vagelis Karzis – backing vocals
George Emmanuel – backing vocals, lead guitar (track 3), recording
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)
Vorph – additional vocals (track 4)
Nick Holmes – additional vocals (track 7)
Kathir – additional vocals (track 9)
Nikos Veletzas – percussion
George Anamouroglou – percussion
Fotis Benardo – percussion
Alexandros Kalfakis – percussion
Konstantis Mpistolis – bagpipes (tracks 3, 9)
Giorgos Nikas – bagpipes (tracks 3, 9)
Nikola Nikita Jeremić – orchestration (tracks 1, 7)

Production

Jens Bogren – mixing, mastering
Adrien Bousson – layout^[1]

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[4]	75
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[5]	136
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)^[6]	18
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[3]	14
US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[7]	48

References

^ ^a ^b Rotting Christ – Rituals on metal-archives.com Retrieved on 30 May 2016
^ Rotting Christ – Rituals discogs.com Retrieved 26 March 2019
^ ^a ^b "Rotting Christ Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^ "Ultratop.be – Rotting Christ – Rituals By Rotting Christ" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^ "Ultratop.be – Rotting Christ – Rituals By Rotting Christ" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^ "Rotting Christ Chart History (Top Hard Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^ "Rotting Christ Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 December 2021.

v t e Rotting Christ
Sakis Tolis Themis Tolis George Emmanuel Van Ace Andreas Lagios
Studio albums	Thy Mighty Contract Non Serviam Triarchy of the Lost Lovers A Dead Poem Sleep of the Angels Khronos Genesis Sanctus Diavolos Theogonia Aealo Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού Rituals The Heretics
Compilation albums	Thanatiphoro Anthologio
EPs and singles	Passage to Arcturo

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