The Industrial Twilight: Христос Пантократор

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Христос Пантократор - "Theos" [1997]

Artist: Христос Пантократор

Title: Theos

Genre: Ritual Industrial, Noise

Country: Russia

Release date: 1997

Track List:

Апостол
Мёртвым
Идолатрие
Moirae
Крестный ход - Lex Aeterna
Кокон
Ничто - Темница - Цитадель
Астроном
Бог Дёрн
Аист - Nomine

Христос Пантократор / Christ Pantocrator were the first ritual noise project from my city, started by Nikita Borisov and Nikolay Morar in summer 1994. The former also was the local pioneer of analog noise with his project Res Nulluis that was started in late 1992. They occasionally worked with other musicians (Mikhail Slepchenkov - guitar, Alena Bolotova - drums, Svetlana Sinyakina - vocals), but these were only short-time collaborations.

The band recorded several albums during their existence, but never performed live, mostly due to their "blasphemous" name and imagery. Their music wasn't received well back then, and they split up in spring 1997 after releasing their best album "Theos". Surely there are better ritual industrial acts out there, but this album offers a powerful "shamanic"/occult atmosphere and some fans of obscure ritual noise might find it interesting. Moreover, it's a valuable historical document from a place where the underground music scene was never particularly powerful (sadly...)

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

* finno-ugric rarities - various music (including pop) in minor Finno-Ugric languages which I'm interested in because of my heritage. The music from Hungary, Finland and Estonia can be found under the respective categories;

* lo-fi - various poorly recorded demos from before 2000 that are of historical importance. Most of these demos come from the USSR era, so you might want to check out the USSR category as well.

As of now, I try to post only music that has already been made free by the artists themselves, or the rare old releases that are out of print. But if you're an artist and would like me to remove the download links of your work, just contact me using the form below.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Христос Пантократор - "Theos" [1997]

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