Rotting Christ is the precursor of European black metal and originally from Athens, Greece. The group of brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis burst onto the scene by dint of a brutal combination of grindcore (perhaps the most brutal subgenre of metal) and a striking desire to “dramatize” those ultra-fast and guttural songs with the help of keyboards played with total rusticity.
Politicians from various countries around the world set their sights on Rotting Christ and its provocative name. Even its members were arrested in 2018 upon arrival in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, accused of being suspected terrorists.