YOTH IRIA

Bio:
Yoth Iria In 1984 a teenager called Jim Mutilator co-founded Black Church, the band that would become Rotting Christ. He went on to help found Varathron, and with both he shaped the sound the world now calls Hellenic black metal: melodic, ritualistic, more Mediterranean heat than Nordic frost.
The name Yoth Iria first appeared on Rotting Christ’s debut Thy Mighty Contract in 1993 — a daemonic avatar Mutilator has carried with him since childhood. Decades later he gave it a band of its own. Yoth Iria rose in 2019 with The Magus of Necromantia on vocals, and the Under His Sway EP (2020) and the debut album As the Flame Withers (Pagan Records, 2021) announced that the old flame had not gone out.
Their first rites in Mexico City were captured on the live album Embracing the Mexican Shadows (2023). With a new line-up fronted by HE, Blazing Inferno (Edged Circle, 2024) took the band to Mexico, Central America, Armenia and across Europe. In November 2025 Yoth Iria signed to Metal Blade Records and toured Europe with Nailed to Obscurity.
Gone with the Devil (May 2026) is their most ambitious work yet: a record about the paradox of power and faith, in which Lucifer is not a symbol of terror but of light — a truth hidden by those who profit from darkness. Big riffs, choirs and choruses, and the unmistakable melodic blood of Greek black metal.
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