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Athanasios "Sakis" Tolis
Tolis in 2010
Tolis in 2010
Background information
Birth nameAthanasios Tolis
Born (1972-06-29) 29 June 1972 (age 52)
OriginAttica, Athens, Greece
GenresMelodic black metal, black metal, symphonic black metal, death metal, grindcore, gothic metal
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter, producer
Instrument(s)Guitars, vocals, keyboards, bass,drum
Years active1987–present
LabelsCentury Media (1996–2006)
Season of Mist (2006–present)

Athanasios "Sakis" Tolis (Template:Lang-el; born 29 June 1972) is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Rotting Christ.[1] He is also known as Necromayhem.

He has recently produced some of the band's albums and contributed as session keyboardist.[2] Sakis has also provided guest vocals and guitars for a number of bands, for example providing guest backing vocals on the track Mocking Modesty on the Nightrage album Wearing a Martyr's Crown and additional vocals on Spanish North of South's single "Just Fourteen Seconds", taken from their The Tides in Our Veins album.[3]

He also played guitar in a black/death metal band Thou Art Lord,[4] which features members from several other prominent Greek extreme metal groups, such as Necromantia and Septic Flesh.[5]

He used to endorse Grossman custom made guitars. He currently has a signature V-Shaped guitar with the Greek letters ΧΞΣ inlaid in the fretboard. As of 2016 he is endorsed by ESP Guitars and uses an Eclipse model.

In 2018, Tolis announced he was co-authoring a book titled Non Serviam: The Official Story Of Rotting Christ with Dayal Patterson.[6] The book was published in November 2018 and details the history of the band.[7][8]

In March 19, 2022, he released his first solo album, Among the Fires of Hell.

A species of prehistoric brittle star, Brezinacantha tolis, was named after him and his brother Themis Tolis.[9][10]

Discography

Rotting Christ

  • Leprosy of Death (Demo) (1988)
  • Decline's Return (Demo) (1989)
  • The Other Side of Life (Split) (1989)
  • Satanas Tedeum (Demo) (1989)
  • Rotting Christ / Monumentum (Split) (1991)
  • Passage to Arcturo (EP) (1991)
  • Ade's Winds (Demo) (1992)
  • Dawn of the Iconocaust (Compilation) (1992)
  • Αποκαθήλωσις (Compilation) (1993)
  • Thy Mighty Contract (1993)
  • Non Serviam (1994)
  • The Mystical Meeting (Compilation) (1995)
  • Triarchy of the Lost Lovers (1996)
  • Out of the Dark - Live Compilation (Split) (1997)
  • A Dead Poem (1997)
  • Der perfekte Traum (EP) (1999)
  • Sleep of the Angels (1999)
  • Shattering the Barriers (Split) (2000)
  • Khronos (2000)
  • Genesis (2002)
  • In Domine Sathana (Video) (2003)
  • Sanctus Diavolos (2004)
  • Passage to Arcturo/Non Serviam (Compilation) (2006)
  • Theogonia (2007)
  • Thanatiphoro Anthologio (Compilation) (2007)
  • Live in Hellas (Live album) (2009)
  • Non Serviam - A 20 Year Apocryphal Story (Video) (2009)
  • Semigods of the Serpent Cult (Compilation) (2009)
  • Aealo (2010)
  • Early Days - Tape Series (Box Set) (2012)
  • Rotting Christ / Negative Plane (Split) (2012)
  • Αποκαθήλωσις (Box Set) (2012)
  • Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού (2013)
  • Promo 1995 (Demo) (2013)
  • 25 Years: The Path of Evil Existence (Compilation) (2014)
  • Lucifer over Athens (Live album) (2015)
  • Rituals (2016)
  • Old Coffin's Tapes (Box Set) (2016)
  • Abyssic Black Cult (Compilation) (2017)
  • Primordial Evil (Split) (2017)
  • The Call (EP) (2018)
  • Their Greatest Spells: 30 Years of Rotting Christ (Compilation) (2018)
  • Abyssic Black Metal (Compilation) (2018)
  • Under Our Black Cult (Box Set) (2018)
  • The Heretics (2019)
  • Duality of the Unholy Existence (Split) (2019)
  • Fire and Flame (Single) (2020)
  • Athanatoi Este - The Years Between (Box Set) (2020)
  • The Early Days - Live in the Studio (Live album) (2022)
  • Holy Mountain (Single) (2022)
  • The Apocryphal Spells Vol. 1 (Compilation) (2022)
  • The Apocryphal Spells Vol. 2 (Compilation) (2022)
  • The Apocryphal Spells (2023)

Desolation

  • Weird Tales of Madness (Split) (1991)
  • Empire of the Damned (EP) (2021)

Thou Art Lord

  • The Cult of the Horned One (Demo) (1993)
  • Diabolou Archaes Legeones (EP) (1993)
  • Thou Art Lord / Ancient Rites (Split) (1993)
  • Eosforos (1994)
  • Apollyon (1996)
  • Diabolou Archaes Legeones (Compilation) (2002)
  • DV8 (2002)
  • Orgia Daemonicum (2005)
  • The Regal Pulse of Lucifer (2013)
  • Eosforos / Apollyon (Compilation) (2014)
  • Ravencult / Thou Art Lord (Split) (2015)
  • Nunc Protestas Satanae Vivet (Box Set) (2017)
  • The Tunes of Hell (Best Of) (Compilation) (2022)
  • Daemoniorum (EP) (2022)

NEKPΩN IAXEΣ

  • The Oracles (2021)

Solo

  • Among the Fires of Hell (Single) (2022)
  • My Salvation (Single) (2022)
  • The Dawn of a New Age (Single) (2022)
  • Ad Astra (Single) (2022)
  • Among the Fires of Hell (EP) (2022)
  • Among the Fires of Hell (2022)
  • Ancestral Whispers (Single) (2022)
  • Paranoia (Single) (2022)
  • Here Comes the Sun (Single) (2022)
  • Among the Fires of Hell (Piano Version) (2023)

Guest appearances and other work

  • Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp (1993) - guest guitars on "Lustful Father"
  • Horrified - Animal (1998) - (additional vocals)
  • Swan Christy - Today Died Yesterday (1999) - guest vocals on "The Benefactor" (Credited as Sakis)
  • Deva Noctua Entropia - Transerpentual (2003) - (additional vocals)
  • Soulskinner - Bleeding the Grotesque (2003) - guest vocals on "Nocturnal Supremacy"
  • Out of the Lair - Psychotears (2003) - guest vocals on "Psychotears" and "Out of the Lair"
  • Astarte - Sirens (2004) - guest vocals on "Oceanus Procellarum (Liquid Tomb)"
  • Opened Paradise - Occult (2004) - Mixing, Mastering
  • Deva Noctua Entropia - Be Sinking in Marshland (2005) - Producer
  • Desolation - Demented Satanic Uprise (Demo) (2005) - Mastering, Mixing
  • Desolation - Eternity of Hell (2006) - Mixing, Mastering
  • Nergal - Absinthos (2006) - (Guitars) (Credited as Necromayhem)
  • Thus Defiled - Daemonspawn (2007) - backing guest vocals on "...and They Shall Fear the Night" (Credited as Sakis)
  • Aherusia - And the Tides Shall Reveal the Traces (2009) - Mixing, Mastering
  • Nightrage - Wearing a Martyr's Crown (2009) - guest vocals on "Mocking Modesty"
  • Kawir - To Uranus (EP) (2010) - guest vocals on "Sword of Dardanus"
  • Daylight Misery - Depressive Icons (2010) - guest vocals on "Infinity"
  • Rex Mundi - Perception in Design (2010) - backin guest vocals on "Demise Machine"
  • Of the Archeangel - The Extraphysicallia (2011) - guest vocals on "Water Flows Through the Slimy Walls"
  • Riul Doamnel - Fatima (2011) - additional guest vocals on "Of Misery and the Final Hope"
  • Antidrasi - Όρκος Του Μίσους (2012) - guest vocals on "Όλα Τα Όρια Είναι Μια Παραίσθηση" (Credited as Σάκης)
  • Wish Upon a Star - Something to Hold Onto (2012) - Mastering
  • Another One Falls - Mind is Set (2012) - Mastering
  • Galadriel - The 7th Queen Enthroned (2012) - backing guest vocals on "Still Not Dead Enough"
  • Blynd - Punishment Unfolds (2012) - additional guest vocals on "As Punishment Unfolds"
  • Nekkar - Self-titled album (2013) - additional guest vocals on "Uncomfortable Silence"
  • Ecnephias - Necrogod (2013) - guest vocals on "Voodoo - Daughter of Idols"
  • Endsight - A Vicious Circle (2013) - Mastering
  • Poemisia - La Danza Degli Spiriti (2013) - guest vocals on "Anemone"
  • Under Threat - The Manifested Void (2013) - backing vocals on "Into the Great Unknown"
  • Mohammad - Lamnè gastama (2014) - guest vocals on "Hapsía" (Uncredited)
  • Katavasia - Sacrilegious Testament (2015) - guest vocals on "The Chariot of Emperor"
  • Melechesh - Enki (2015) - guest vocals on "Enki - Divine Nature Awoken"
  • Negură Bunget - Tău (2015) - additional guest vocals on "Tărîm vîlhovnicesc"
  • Sigh - Graveward (2015) - backing guest vocals on "Dwellers in a Dream"
  • Galadriel - Lost in the Ryhope Wood (EP) (2015) - guest vocals on "Strong One Against the Storm" (Credited as Necromayhem)
  • Spartan - The Fall of Olympus (2015) - guest vocals on "Sons of Sparta"
  • Darkend - The Canticle of Shadows (2016) - guest vocals on "Congressus cum Dæmone"
  • Principality of Hell - Sulfur & Bane (2016) - guest vocals on "Blasphemer (Sodom Cover)" (Credited as Sakis)
  • Enviktas - Denali (Single) (2016)
  • Mahakala - The Second Fall (2017) - guest vocals on "Wrath of the Lucifer (Infidels)"
  • Lloth - Athanati (2017) - additional guest vocals on "Hell (Is a Place On Earth)"
  • Χαοτικό Τέλος - Υπόσχεση (2017) - guest vocals on "Χαμένος (Lost)"
  • Deviser - Howling Flames (EP) (2017) - guest vocals on "Black Mass"
  • Melted Space - Darkening Light (2018) - guest vocals (as Time)
  • Temple of Perdition - Tetragrammaton (2018) - additional guest vocals on "The Last Temptation"
  • Enthroned Serpent - Towards the Unknown (2018) - backing guest vocals on "Elixir of Existence"
  • Malediction 666 - We, Demons (2019) - guest vocals on "Unmasked Savior"
  • Order of the Ebon Hand - VII: The Chariot (2019) - guest vocals on "Sabnock"
  • Formicarius - Rending the Veil of Flesh (2019) - additional guest vocals on "Early Will I Seek Thee"
  • Γιάννης Αγγελάκας, Νίκος Βελιώτης - Λύκοι Στη Χώρα Των Θαυμάτων (2019) - guest written on "10 Miles High"
  • ΩΝ - Ανέγνων, έγνων, κατέγνων (2019) - additional guest vocals on "Πάντων αρχή ζεύς"
  • Dominia - The Wilthering of the Rose (2020) - guest vocals on "My Flesh and the Sacred River"
  • Macabre Omen - Anamneses (Compilation) (2020) - backing guest vocals on "Anamneses from the Past (Sirens Calling)"
  • Tomorrow's Rain - Hollow (2020) - guest vocals on "In the Corner of a Dead End Street"
  • Varathron - Glorification Under the Latin Moon (2020) - Songwriting (Credited as Necromayhem)
  • Aetherian - Primordial Woods (Single) (2021)
  • Asakta - Cold Winter Rain (Demo) (2021) - Mastering (Credited as Sakis)
  • North of South - The Tides in Our Veins (2021) - guest vocals on "Just Fourteen Seconds"
  • Tales of the Old - The Book of Chaos (2021) - guest vocals on "The Invocation"
  • Anomalie - Tranceformation (2021) - additional guest vocals on "Trance V: Cerulean Sun"
  • Daylight Misery - Cancerworm (Single) (2021)
  • Black Void - Antithesis (2022) - guest vocals on "Dadaist Digust"
  • Manowar - Highlights from the Revenge of Odysseus (EP) (2022) - guest narration on "Telemachus - Part I" (Also the lyric song credit for "Odysseus & Calypso - The Island of Ogygia")
  • Incantvm - Strigae (2022) - (choir vocals)
  • Insomnium - Anno 1696 (2023) - guest vocals on "White Christ"
  • Damnation's Hammer - Into the Silent Nebula (2023) - guest narration on "The Silent Nebula"
  • Varg - Ewige Wacht (CD2: Guests) (2023) - guest vocals on "Immer Treu" (Rotting Christ)
  • Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer (2024) - guest vocals on "Deathstalker"

Filmography

  • Rotting Christ: In Domine Sathana (Video 2003) - Himself (as Sakis)
  • Black Metal: The Norwegian Legacy? (Video 2008) - Himself (Rotting Christ)
  • Brutal Legend (Video Game 2009) (writer: "Ad Noctis")
  • Black Metal: The Music of Satan (Video 2011) - Himself (Uncredited)
  • Ta Stekia: Istories Agoraiou Politismou Rodon Live! Episode (TV Series (2014) - Himself
  • Fraktura: Episode dated 17 July 2016 (TV Series 2016) - Himself
  • Ta Stekia: Istories Agoraiou Politismou Ta Metaladika Episode (TV Series 2019) - Himself
  • Gravis Terrae (2021) - Composer
  • Cover Your Ears (Documentary 2023) - Himself

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ DaRonco, Mike. "Biography: Rotting Christ". Allmusic. Retrieved March 14, 2010.
  2. ^ "Arts in Greece | Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ "Greek metal bands are probably our biggest music export right now"". www.greeknewsagenda.gr. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  3. ^ ioannisdolas (June 14, 2021). "Rotting Christ's Sakis Tolis contributes to North Of South". Rockpages. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  4. ^ DiVita, Joe. "Rotting Christ Debut New Song 'Heaven and Hell and Fire'". Loudwire. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  5. ^ "Thou Art Lord - Biography - Metal Storm". www.metalstorm.net. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  6. ^ "ROTTING CHRIST: 'Non Serviam: The Official Story Of Rotting Christ' Book Due In November". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. August 27, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  7. ^ "Rotting Christ first ever book out soon!". Rotting Christ first ever book out soon!. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  8. ^ "Non Serviam: Rotting Christ Biography Coming Out on November 30th". Decibel Magazine. November 2, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  9. ^ "New Fossil Species Discovery Named After ROTTING CHRIST".
  10. ^ Thuy, Ben; Landman, Neil H.; Larson, Neal L.; Numberger-Thuy, Lea D. (2018). "Brittle-star mass occurrence on a Late Cretaceous methane seep from South Dakota, USA". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 9617. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.9617T. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27326-z. PMC 6018167. PMID 29941907.


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