Antestor
Antestor is a Norwegian unblack metal band formed in 1990 in Jessheim. Credited for starting the northern European Christian black metal scene, Antestor is the only Christian band to have an album released by Cacophonous Records, which has also released records by bands such as Dimmu Borgir, Sigh, and Cradle of Filth. The band's only release on Cacophonous, The Return of the Black Death, proved influential for the Christian black metal movement, and has sold over 10,000 copies.
In late 1990s they dubbed their musical style as "sorrow metal" rather than black metal because the black metal movement was publicly affiliated with Satanism in Norway. According to HM Magazine, the progressive elements on the debut album, Martyrium, were possibly ahead of their time in the Norwegian extreme metal scene.
The group has gone through several line-up changes over the years, and currently Antestor consists of the founding guitarist Lars Stokstad (Vemod), vocalist Ronny Hansen (Vrede), bassist Erik Normann Aanonsen, guitarist Robert Bordevick, and drummer Henning Børven. The original vocalist Kjetil Molnes (Martyr) and drummer Svein Sander (Armoth) left the band around 2000, and the members of a fellow Norwegian black metal group, Vaakevandring, joined Antestor. The reputable Norwegian extreme metal drummer Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer) played session drums for their 2005 album The Forsaken and Det Tapte Liv EP. A fourth studio album, Omen, was released in 2013.
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ALBUMS
- Omen released: 2012
- The Forsaken released: 2005
- The Defeat of Satan released: 2003
- The Return of the Black Death released: 1998
- Martyrium released: 1994
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In Solitude
by: AntestorFrantic I scream in agony of not being
able to reach my goals wars inside
my head
I do my best, I give my all still I'm so far
away trying to keep my hope I stumble
and I fall
As I lay here, waiting for you beside me,
to keep me calm
My head held high, my outside unscathed
no one to ask, no one to help I'm left
here all alone
Battle rages all day long bitterness
seldom comes alone fury becoming my
strength and seems to be the only way
to survive
All pain that I've ever known I reap only
what my past has sown no secrets
are kept from you as you witness my
attempts to ignore
Frantic I scream in agony of not being
able to reach my goals wars inside
my head
I do my best, I give my all still I'm so far
away trying to keep my hope I stumble
and I fall
I ask for forgiveness but my screams
are unheard my claims misunderstood
ignorance has won
As I lay here, waiting for You beside
me, to keep me calm I feel your spirit
comforting me and within me,