Rotting Christ " A Dead Poem"

A Dead Poem is the fourth full-length album by Greek extreme metal band Rotting Christ.

The band slowed down their tempos significantly and added occasional usage of acoustic guitars and regional music, making this particular record one of their more mainstream of releases, and the farthest removed from black metal music styles.

Moonspell's Fernando Ribeiro contributed backing vocals to the track "Among Two Storms".

It was produced at Woodhouse Studios in Hagen, Germany by Xy,  programmer/percussionist for Samael, who also contributed keyboards to some tracks.

Costas Vassilakopoulos, Andreas Lagios and Panayiotis are mentioned in the line up but didn't play on the album.

Track listing

1. "Sorrowfull Farewell" – 4:52
2. "Among Two Storms" – 4:09
3. "A Dead Poem" – 4:08
4. "Out of Spirits" – 4:06
5. "As If by Magic" – 5:51
6. "Full Colour Is the Night" – 4:47
7. "Semigod" – 4:39
8. "Ten Miles High" – 4:34
9. "Between Times" – 5:03
10. "Ira Incensus" – 5:16

Layout and design by Media Logistics.

The initial pressing contains a free bonus disc; the "Darkness We Feel" Compilation:

1. Sentenced - Shadegrown - 4:35
2. Old Man's Child - The Millennium King - 5:28
3. Moonspell - Ruin & Misery - 3:48
4. Sacramentum - Dreamdeath - 5:30
5. Alastis - In Darkness - 3:56
6. Sundown - 19 - 3:45
7. Samael - Rain - 4:00
8. Vasaria - Luna - 4:13
9. Rotting Christ - A Sorrowfull Farewell - 4:51
10. Orphaned Land - Of Temptation Born - 4:38
11. Borknagar - The Quest - 4:25
12. Tiamat - Atlantis as a Lover - 5:32
13. Lacuna Coil - Shallow End - 6:06
14. Ulver - Wolf & Passion - 5:46
15. Unleashed - Ragnarok - 4:59
16. The Gathering - Nighttime Birds - 6:56

Recorded at Woodhouse Studios, Hagen, Germany, May 1997.