Rotting Christ -The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe)
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2019
- Taken from the upcoming album "The Heretics". Out February 15,
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Poem's recitation by Stratis Steele from Endomain
Music by Sakis Tolis
Lyrics by Sakis Tolis / Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced by Sakis Tolis
Recorded in Pentagram Studios-Athens
Mixed in Fascination Street Studio-Orebro by Jens Borgen
Mastered in Fascination Street Studio-Orebro by Tony Lindgren
Video and photo manipulation by John Kaimakamis and the Nightwatchers
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The Raven
(by Edgar Allan Poe)
I fall from the holy empire,an angel that loosing his path.
I am tormented with passion and fire, i am tormented with pride,greed and lust
The raven,
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
I am dreaming flying higher and higher, i am dreaming hope, fear,love and pain
My gracefull forbidden desire,they always call whisper my name
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil!
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted,
On this home by Horror haunted-tell me truly, I implore.
Is there-is there balm in Gilead?-tell me-tell me, I implore!
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore”.
I fall from the holy empire,an angel that loosing his path.
I am tormented with passion and fire, i am tormented with pride,greed and lust
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!-quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart,
I fall from the holy empire,an angel that loosing his path.
I am tormented with passion and fire, i am tormented with pride,greed and lust
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted-nevermore!
This song is absolute fucking magic.
A relaxing night at home: bath, beer, candles, and Rotting Christ.
Crissy A night? Where I live is only 12:24 pm 😂
Excactly! A wonderful moment it is and Will be.
Candles? Sounds gay
@@michoak47nfernandez25 A dick in the ass is gay, candles can be good to soothe tired eyes hurt by all the fake light in our modern world.
Not that I see being gay as something negative.
I'll drink to that
so...
Rotting Christ dedicates to Edgar Allan Poe
Septicflesh dedicates to H.P. Lovecraft
this is why i love these bands
do you know exactly wich songs from septicflesh are basted on HP's work?
@@Florin_A one of their songs is called "lovecrafts death" i don't have something else in mind. Their artworks and video clips are Lovecraft inspired though...
@@Florin_A as dinos said, lovecraft's death (they basically cite every title that lovecraft used in his works)
@@MAKTIAS oh thank you, i heard this song dozens of times but never checked the lyrics or smh
how about our church below the see
Can these guys ever do wrong? After 25+ years in metal, I doubt there is a band with such passion, consistency, creativity, complexity, composition and imagination as Rotting Christ around. Legendary!
theyre gods band
Correct 💯
At 3:30 when the vocal dies of and the guitar picks up.. that is one of the best things I hear.
When I hear it, I feel like I'm floating in water and get a warm feeling in my body.
Soo good =)
Yes indeed i feel the same! Check this cover of a metalbrother of this song and you won't regret it
ua-cam.com/video/f3fP_e3115k/v-deo.html
Yes...that's the part. Takes me away
Take thine beak from out my heart! *epicness ensues*
fun fact the rift or musical line comes from "I Ran So Far Away" or "I Run The Streets All Night and Day"
@@madlordstaz2957 I had a feeling it sounded familiar. Thank goodness I wasn't the only one who found out.
3:30 is incredibly goosebump inducing
Perfection! Check this cover of the song nailed that part ua-cam.com/video/f3fP_e3115k/v-deo.html
@@Musicsalvation Just checked out. Beautiful footage and cover! Thanks for sharing!
lmao it really is damn
More like horse bumps lol
So this is how the original music of the boss battle of "Tarsus, The First Martyr" from the "Mortal Shell" sounds. Thank you, Rotting Christ, for this masterpiece.
That....guitar....riff. Fucking chills, dude.
My favourite METAL band and Song. Greetings from Georgia. 👊🇬🇪
Qartveli daamn
If only Christopher Lee was still alive. He could have read The Raven here :(
@CrocutaIV Your opinion.
Don't virtue-signal on me. I prefer Christopher Lee's voice and that's my opinion. Honestly, the one who reads the poem here wouldn't give a fuck if he knew about my opinion. Learn to have backbone.
That would have been epic!
awesome interpretation of the poem! is interestng to *imagine* alt. versions of The Raven poem, incl. C.Lee. personal wishlist: v. feat. swedish actor (RIP) Ernst-Hugo Järegård. hats off to R.C!
I am sorry for being ignorant, but who is Mr. Christopher Lee?
Saw these guys live last year and this was the song they played for their encore. Hands down the best band I’ve ever seen live.
Oh man the band is awesome, I just happened to hear the track "Pir Threontai" through the PS5 Game: Mortal Shell at Bossfights. So I thought to myself, look at all the songs by the band. What can I say. Unbelievable good !
I'm a full fan of the band now - they're so awesome. I love the song more than anything!!!
Nice Greetings from Germany, Berlin to Rotting Christ.
I went the opposite route: I found out about the game thanks to Rotting Christ and I am enjoying it greatly.
Saw Rotting Christ last Friday at a small venue in Sweden.. There were only room for 350 people and it was fucking Awesome 🤘🤘🤘
I envy you. Here in their homeland, Medieval Greece, one of their concerts was forbidden by the church and (other) nazis and I couldn't see them.
@@ioannisampatzoglou it is sad that an ancient satanic pagan homeland like greece, now with the dominance of christianity forbids music that talks about their own origins. Im an italian fun of rotting christ 🇮🇹🇬🇷
i'm turkish. i miss the old days when rotting christ gave a concert in a random bar in istanbul, ankara or izmir like every 3 weeks. people in greece or rest of the europe might think turkish people hate greeks but no other country in the world had/has more fans of sakis than turkey.
As I grow older I am constantly looking for metal that puts me into a melodious high. Welcome Rotting Christ!
It's priceless to hear this song while fighting 'Tarsus The First Martyr' in Mortal Shell. This hyped me up so much!
Bull of heaven resurrected by Ishtar (queen ov heaven). The bull once beaten in battle always wins the war #gethexedbro
Σας ευχαριστώ! Για όλα αυτά τα χρόνια. Για την έκσταση και τα δάκρυα. Για την οργή και την εξιλέωση. Για όλα αυτά που έχω νιώσει εξ'αιτίας της τέχνη σας. /bow
One of the best band from the Hellas
Ellada :3
If not the best. When Greek metal comes into the mix, there is at least a reference to RC.
Yeah.. They make me proud to be Greek! 🤘
My best friend name is Hubert ! He is from Poland. Cheers from Athens
Hella(s) cool
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Un poema de Edgar Allan Poe hecho canción de BLACK METAL, simplemente genial.
ROTTING CHRIST + Edgar Allan Poe = Awesomeness!! ✊💀🎤🎶🎸👍
You can only write something like the raven by being in an incredibly dark and melancholic place
Charles Baudelaire in Rituals album, and now Edgar allen poe(without mentioning the old works). This band understands my needs
That's a pity N.Gumilyov isn't popular abroad and is hardly even translated into English. I bet you would like his gloomy poems.
Our needs 2
Terminan superando todas mis expectativas, maravilloso por siempre... ✨🖤🎸🖤✨
Allan.
Great Song, and it sounds waaaaaay better in concert!!!!
Sakis, Rotting Christ, you are unbelievable! Still keeping the flame alive and well after decades.
This Album is gonna be just awesome!
Hails from Italia! Italia e Grecia, una faccia, una razza!
The guy who read the verses of the poem is very expressive. A bad-ass interpretation!!
yeah I hear ya, though its Rotting Christ.
the Simpsons did a Halloween ep. where Homer was going crazy, taking off of the story, what is the true deep meaning of the story?
Nevermore.
Probably "The Heretics" will be the best album of 2019.
Best album of the decade!
@@captainzeppos definitely at the top of my list
I fall from the holy empire
An angel that loosing his path
I am tormented with passion and fire
I am tormented with pride, greed and lust
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary
While I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping
Suddenly there came a tapping
I am dreaming flying higher and higher
I am dreaming hope, fear, love and pain
My graceful forbidden desire
They always call whisper my name
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!
Prophet still, if bird or devil!
Whether Tempter sent
Or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore
Desolate yet all undaunted
On this desert land enchanted
On this home by Horror haunted
Tell me truly, I implore
Is there, is there balm in Gilead?
Tell me, tell me, I implore!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore"
Deep into that darkness peering
Long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting
Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
"Be that word our sign of parting
Bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting
"Leave no black plume as a token
Of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!
Quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart"
I fall from the holy empire
An angel that loosing his path
I am tormented with passion and fire
I am tormented with pride, greed and lust
And the Raven, never flitting
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor
And my soul from out that shadow
That lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted
Nevermore
Losing*
One of my favorites. The guitar solo brings a feeling akin to that of flying through the clouds, once upon a midnight dreary...
Rotting Christ is like wine. Year after year becomes better! Greetings from Brazil!
Ok, this is too much perfection. First Baudelaire,then Alan Poe... My two favourite things; RC and poetry joined together.
Which album they used from Baudelaire's lyrics ?
@@nephalemresurrection7518 they used their album "rituals" to include their cover on litanies de satan,from fleurs du mal
EPIC, TOTALLY EPIC, WHAT A RIFF OMG!!!! How can beautiful songs like this one still being composed? Rotting Christ is an amazing formula. This is pure ART.
3:29 I can already hear the crowd chanting with the guitar in a live concert
3:50 that solo part... GOSH 😍😍
Yeah! I love the way the two guitar players are in complete harmony. Also, it’s not easy playing guitar and also singing. Awesome band. And the more gothic sounding songs of theirs are definitely my favorite
Rotting Christ only gets better with each listen!
I'm coming here from playing Mortal Shell. As a life-long metalhead I can say I've found a new band. Seems like these guys have been around forever. They need more exposure.
Rotting Christ remind us to be ourselves, through this song. The raven is the reflection of yourself who wants to be free.
Freedom... is the most noble ideal.
Your songs are the cure for our souls, thank you Rotting Christ for all these years \m/
3:29 Epic Dammm Solo !!!
Rotting Christ.......Ελληνες καλλητεχνες...... Big like from Albania
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band - wikipedia...
@@chrissonne4077 ?
Magnífico! Música de pura arte obscura. Hail Rotting Christ!!!
\m/
Salve Prometeo 🤘
Mother of god........i have stumbled upon a masterpiece because of septic flesh.........
The best I've heard in recent years. It's godlike.
Great song for a great poem I..I
One of the greatest metal bands out there.
Mortal Shell!!! ❤❤❤❤
Wow beautiful song ! , long live to Rotting christ!
Man, I cant get enough of this band. This song is killer. Been going to Greece the last two years in a row, this reminds me of my holidays there. Thanks bros!
Rotting Christ and Edgar Allan Poe? Damn, this is my favourite thing ever.
Σεβασμός. Μετά από τόσα χρόνια φουλ αξιοπρέπεια στη μουσική σας και εξελιξη. Εύγε Σάκη.
Cómo lo reventaron en València. Son legendarios. Auténtica obra maestra
Quien revento a este genio,?
@@davidgrimaldo6670 reventarlo, significa hacerlo genial
@@mortadelovlc 👍
and i run, i run so far away, i just ran, i ran all night and day
Me: fighting Tarsus the first Martyr with no shell (armor)
Tarsus: *Rush to attack*
Me: Karaoke time! I FALL FROM THE HOLY EMPIRES!
*for those who don't know, Rotting Christ's The Raven is literally the boss fight music but with no vocals.
The DLC soundtrack fits perfectly with the atmosphere of the game 🔥f***ing awesome
"We are the shadow that kills , the hidden death that none suspects" Glory to Corvus Corax and the RavenGuard!
The emperor protects brother!
1st time listening - wtf is this?! Definite no from me.
2nd time listening - I guess it's alright. Its original.
3rd time listening - ok its growing on me.
4th time listening - this is a masterpiece.
5th time listening - cant..stop..listening..
Same thing here :)
x2
same here,same here!
Well the funny thing is I've been a Rotting Christ fan for years and I love em. But for some reason this song just wasnt clicking for me with the whole reading of the poem in the middle rather than singing it or integrating it in a different way the first time I heard it. But its definitely grown on me and the guitar work is brilliant. Cant wait for the new album!
I liked it a lot
I find it pretty classic for their work, to be honest, so much that it was almost... "cozy"...
and for me the poem reading was a rotting christ classic too... something close to the ones with Diamanda's speeches, if you know what I mean
in their approach to music it's already "integrated" just as they want it to be, I guess
for me it's like le litanies de satan... if you already know the original poem, it works even better
One of the best band in the world !
the riff is so addictive
Rotting Christ is one of the best bands on the planet! \m/
most beautiful fave song of all time poetry is awsome wen put with metal omg than u rotting christ u r amazing
This poem has got me for over 30 years... Raise The Horns.. 333
Waiting in line in the super market blasting this piece with my headphones 🖤😁
I don't think its unfair to say that already, after only a few songs released, this will be the best album of 2019. Unbelievable how good this sounds.
This is the definition of perfection.
That solo...❤️
Words are not enough...
🔥🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼🔥
Στελλαρα μουουου,που χαθηκες?
Geia sou re stella, kommatara!!!
@@AggelosDimos ναι ρε Αγγελε εννοειταιιι \m/!!!
@@firesteele Γιαννηηη μου!! Εδω ειμαιι !! Χαθηκαμε όντως 😀😀
This Guys know what true metal is...
(this song)...is the spark the flame
To drag me out my insane, of my insane
\m/
Hail from Albania
Только за одну эту композицию, мне, большому почитателю творчества Э. А. По, низкий поклон - Грекам - братьям!!!Супер!!!!!Просто ....Супер, нет слов!!!!!
The album is a front to back cinematic masterpiece for me...such an incredible way to close the album
Rotting Christ keeps putting out good music, well done on this track. 😁🤘🏻
The best song I've ever heard🎸😎
Восторг!🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Recordando tremenda joya, el metal es arte vieja!!! piel de gallina!!! si el poema te deja piel de gallina, fusionado con metal es una obra de arte!!!
I've been waiting for this one. Absolutely incredible! \m/
Absolutely beautiful!
oxi
I love Poe 🖤
Nevermore!!
Finally something to bring this dusty old poem to life.
ΜΕ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΑ Η ΠΙΟ ΨΑΓΜΕΝΗ ΜΕΤΑΛ ΜΠΑΝΤΑ.ΣΑΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ R.C. ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ ΠΟΥ ΜΑΣ ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΕΤΕ.NON SERVIAM.
One of my favorites from rotting christ
Ich habe Rotting Crist einfach lieben gelernt, weil er keine Scheiße von sich gibt, sondern weil er sich mit der Welt und noch viel mehr beschäftigt. Realität und so genannter Wahnsinn stehen so minimal daneben, das ich mich fragen muß, was ist noch real!?
I Love this band, for me is awesone!!!
I love it too
This one right here, this is a masterpiece. It casts a ban upon me, every time I listen to this. It rings everything I love about horror, Poe, Lovecraft and accidentally even King (because Roland is from Gilead... and no, there is no balm there)
Hahaha
Athens Greece, in November along with Moonspell... Can't wait!!!
Ωραίο ριφάκι, τίμιο!
Brilliant!
gamato είναι , όχι απλά τίμιο
Edgar Allan Poe y Rotting Christ maravilloso mi amor por el metal y la literatura oscura crece mas
Just so you know, i'm gonna see you live on the 31st for the first time and i can't wait for it. Edgar Allan Poe has been my favorite poet so far. I love him to bits. Combining the raven with your stuff? Well, i just might cry... Its freaking fucking amazing.
One of my favourite RC songs, absolutely love it!!!
Κομματαρα ρε...μπραβο μαγκες ξανα και ξανα!!!!
I CANT HANDLE THIS EPICNESS
Awesome!
Edit: still have that Rotting Christ drumstick i caught back in 2016 after your performance :D One of my most cherished possessions!
Wow.. beautiful memento.thanks for sharing..Knox Om Pax..
Classic Rotting Christ metal... \m/ Μπραβο ρε αλανια!!!! Χαιρετισματα απο Αγγλια... Καντε καμια καλη και ανεβειτε, να γινουμε!!!
this have become my top favorite song listening to it for almost a year now
A great band and my favorite poem. Now that's an eargasm!! 😍
Rotting Christ will destroy 2019 !!!!!
god help us
Already did
it reminds "Dead Poem" era, back in 1997. But "The Raven" is a real progression in Black Metal sound. Rotting Christ formed in 1987, and after 30 years, they're still top, with new dark, atmospheric and melodic paths. So proud for this Hellenic metal band...This Black Metal marriage with Edgar Allan Poe is absolutely epic!!
Pure epicness. Being consequent in what you do, even after 30 years, is a sign of a real artist.
GREAT!!! atmospheric, melodic, dark and light in same moment!
Rotting Christ - genius band! Fire!!!!
I love this album!
A beautiful song.... Rotting Christ is an excellentt and incredible band...
A brilliant masterpiece of music
Great tribute to one of the greatest authors and poets ever existed. This band keeps making their fans proud....