''The Heretics'' is the thirteenth full-length album by Greek

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. It was released on 15 February 2019 via

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.Season of Mist's Website for Rotting Christ
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Track listing

Personnel

Rotting Christ

Sakis Tolis Athanasios "Sakis" Tolis ( el, Αθανάσιος "Σάκης" Τόλης; born 29 June 1972) is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Rotting Christ. He is also known as Necromayhem. He has recently produced som ...

– vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, production *

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– drums

Additional personnel

*Stelios Steele – poem narration (track 1, 4, 10) *Alexis Karametis – vocals (backing) (track 6) *Stratis Steele – vocals (choirs) *Alexandros Louziotis – vocals (choirs) *Giannis Stamatakis – vocals (choirs) *Theodoros Aivaliotis – vocals (choirs) *Nikos Velentzas – percussion *Stamatis Ampatalis – percussion *Vasilis Koutsouflakis – percussion *Manos Six – percussion *Irina Zybina – additional vocals (track 2) *Dayal Patterson – narration (track 3, 7) *Melechesh Ashmedi – vocals (track 8)

Production

*Tony Lindgren – mastering *Vyacheslav Smishko – artwork *George Emmanuel –

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*Maximos Manolis – cover art *

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– mixing

Charts

References

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