Rotting Christ continued to refine their distinctive extreme metal sound (part black, part death, part anyone's guess) with their second full album, Non Serviam, which, above all else, seemed to relinquish much of its already impressive predecessor, Thy Mighty Contract's tendency towards accelerated tempos. Sure, certain songs ("Where Mortals Have No Pride," "Mephesis of Black Crystal," "Ice Shaped God") still boasted occasional breakouts into blastbeat-driven insanity, but those moments were summarily overshadowed by a new breed of mid-paced standouts such as "The Fifth Illusion," "Saturn Unlock Avey's Son," and the title track. With their surprising show of restraint, multitude of masterful, glacial riffs, and -- in the case of all-time extreme metal benchmarks, "Morality of a Dark Age" and the simply spectacular "Wolfera the Chacal" -- quasi doom passages, these more deliberate experiments only threw the Greek band's unforeseen instincts for conjuring positively sublime melodies into ultra sharp relief. And, by doing so, they paved the way for Rotting Christ's arguable career summit via 1996's Triarchy of the Lost Lovers -- although Non Serviam is probably just as deserving of that honor. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
Non Serviam, released in 1994, is the second full length album by Greek band Rotting Christ.
In Latin, "Non serviam" translates to "I will not serve", and Biblically refers to Satan's refusal to serve God[1]. It also has some different connotations in secular literary works.
After 12 years of discontinued print, the album was re-released by The End Records in 2006. According to their biography, it is also the last album in which the band used a sessional drum machine.[2]
Track listing
"The Fifth Illusion" – 5:33
"Wolfera the Jackal" (feat. Theodoridis Efstathios a.k.a. antireligion) – 7:13
Decline's Return (1988) | Leprosy of Death (1988) |The Other Side of Life (split EP) (1989) | Satanas Tedeum (1989) |Passage to Arcturo(1991) | Split with Monumentum (1991) | Dawn of the Iconoclast (1991) | Ades Wind (1992) | Apokathelosis (1993) | The Mystical Meeting (1997) | Der Perfekte Traum (1999)
