ROTTING CHRIST Triarchy of the Lost lovers is the third album from these greek legends. While the first 2 albums hinted at some potential with this band, this album delivered the goods in a big way. This is the album that made Rotting Christ be taken seriously in the broader metal community rather than just the black metal underground.
From the initial few seconds of putting this one on, you can hear huge progressions in terms of maturity and and the production is just magnificent. Everything is so much clearer than their previous albums and allows the bands musician ship and talent to shine through.
The first two songs “King of a Stellar War” and “A Dynasty from the Ice” set the scene nicely but for me it lifts a level on the track “Archon” which shows off all sides of the band, great riffs, sublime guitar solos and some rather neat timing changes. This song has it all in one song!
Further on into the album the classiness just continues. It’s amazing how far the lads have come in a short time. “At one with the Forest” is another stand out track where everything just comes together perfectly.
Over all this is a really classy album and one that that really stands the test of time and really should appeal to a lot of the metal crowd as it combines death metal, black metal and doom into a very classy but melodic package. Truely something for everyone!
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