Watch the infernally uplifting lyric video for Yoth Iria's self-titled track from their forthcoming As The Flame Withers debut

The fossil brittle star, Brezinacantha Tolis, is ‘pure black metal’, apparently

Their incredible albums have helped define black metal across three decades, and their legacy is only growing. Is The Heretics the record that's finally brought Rotting Christ to the masses?

The story of Rotting Christ's beginnings in the Greek punk scene, taken from Dayal Patterson's new book Non Serviam: The Official Story Of Rotting Christ

Members of Greek extreme metal band Rotting Christ have been arrested in Georgia -- the Eastern European country, not the American state, although that would also be scarily plausible these days -- on charges of terrorism stemming from their controversial band name. Blabbermouth reports that the band were touring in support of their recent compi...