New Godflesh & Jesu with Phoebe too
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Some of the many reasons it’s been a great year for post-metal.
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The Australian band Horde's debut album Hellig Usvart, released through Nuclear Blast Records, is often credited for being the first Christian black metal album, although the sole member Anonymous has stated that "there were similar [unblack] bands prior to Horde, even in Norway," referring to Antestor who formed in 1990, while prior to 1993 they were a death/doom band called Crush Evil. Antestor's debut album Martyrium was also released in 1994. Euronymous of Mayhem planned to force Crush Evil to disband, but he was murdered by Varg Vikernes in 1993.Jag gillar faktiskt Horde trots allt för att man kan skratta åt dom. Försök själva att inte fnissa åt en låttitel som Invert The Inverted Cross, det går ju inte, det fattar ju alla.
Hellig Usvart caused great controversy in the black metal scene, and death threats were sent to Nuclear Blast Records headquarters demanding them to release the members' names. The only actual member was the Australian former Mortification/Paramaecium drummer Jayson Sherlock.The term "unblack metal" was derived from "holy unblack metal", which was a wordplay on Darkthrone's "unholy black metal" term. Media became interested in Horde's controversy; for example on 6 June 1995, the Norwegian weekly newspaper Morgenbladet published an article about the phenomenon of Christian black metal, describing Horde's album as "an abrupt satire of the Norwegian black metal movement". Antestor was also interviewed, with vocalist Kjetil Molnes stating "We identify ourselves as black metal as a music style, not black metal as an ideology or belief."