Rotting Christ

Greek black metal band Rotting Christ has had a concert canceled in an apparent response to protests over the obscenity of its name.
Sakis Tolis, the lead singer and founder of the group, said in a Facebook post that yesterday's gig at the Aigli venue in Patra in the Peloponnese had been called off.

Athens's annual Rockwave Festival at the TerraVibe park in Malakassa, north of the city, gets off to head-banging start on Friday, June 30, with headline acts Rotting Christ and Nightstalker, two locals outfit that have been shaping the Greek metal scene since the late 1980s. The local act roster is completed by 1000 Mods playing psychedelic "anti-radio" metal, Bazooka and Godspeed.