Rituals (Rotting Christ album)
# 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 and at number 10 on Ifpi Greek charts.

## 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.

## 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

## Charts

| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 75 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 136 |
| US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) | 18 |
| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) | 14 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 48 |
