Martyrium (album)

Martyrium
Studio album by
Antestor
Released2000
RecordedDecember 1994 at Norsk Lydskole, Oslo, Norway
GenreDeath/doom, unblack metal
Length47:04
LabelEndtime
ProducerJon Ove Andersen and Antestor
Antestor chronology
The Return of the Black Death
(1998) 		Martyrium
(2000) 		The Defeat of Satan
(2003)

Martyrium is the first recorded and second released studio album by the Norwegian unblack metal band Antestor. It is one of the earliest Christian extreme metal albums released in Norway. Recorded in 1994, Martyrium was not immediately released, though bootleg copies of the album were printed in 1997 by Morphine Records.[1] It then gained a cult following among a small audience until it was officially released in the year 2000 by Endtime Productions.[2]

  1. ^ Martyrium (Pre-Release Cassette). Glen Allen, VA: Morphine Records. 1997.
  2. ^ Michael Bryzak. Liner notes of The Defeat of Satan / Despair. Endtime Productions. 2003.