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The Return of the Black Death
''The Return of the Black Death'' is the second recorded and first released studio album by the Norwegian unblack metal band Antestor, released in 1998. It is the band's only release on the British Cacophonous Records label. This album's working title was ''Kongsblod''. Antestor recorded another album, ''Martyrium'', prior to ''The Return of the Black Death'', in 1994, and while bootleg versions of the recording circulated, this album did not see official release until 2000.
==Recording history==
In spring 1997, Antestor recorded a demo CD called ''Kongsblod'' in Studio 5, Oslo. At the time their line up consisted of guitarist/keyboardist Lars Stokstad (Vemod), vocalist/lyricist Kjetil Molnes (Martyr), bass player Vegard Undal and drummer Svein Sander (Armoth). The band sent ''Kongsblod'' to record labels in hopes of getting finances to record and mix at a better quality studio. The cover of the demo contains a famous Norwegian painting of skiing Vikings (''Birkebeinerne'', by Knud Bergslien). One of the biggest exclusively black metal focused British labels, Cacophonous Records, became interested in the band, and a record deal was signed with Antestor. However, Cacophonous simply released ''Kongsblod'' after changing the cover to a painting by the American fantasy artist Joe Petagno, and the name was changed to ''The Return of the Black Death''. The album was released in 1998.〔("Antestor - The Return of the Black Death" ). Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-10-25.〕
Afterwards, the incident has caused some debates because it is rare that a Christian black metal band gets signed to a secular label. Previously only Horde's release of ''Hellig Usvart'' in 1994 on Nuclear Blast is a similar known case. In December 1998, the drummer Armoth said in an interview with the ''Art for the Ears'' webzine that they sent the CD and a short biography for Cacophonous Records and that Cacophonous Records just wanted to sign Antestor because of the music, which was exactly what the band wanted to do.〔 Some time later, in a 2000 interview with the Finnish ''The Christian Underground Zine'' issue 4, the fanzine's interviewer asked Antestor: "However, you had a record deal with Cacophonous Records (ex-Cradle of Filth, Bal-Sagoth). What kind of experiences did you get from that?" The band replied: "Pretty bad, actually. I can not say they did anything else than released the album. No money, no royalties, nothing."〔 The interviewer also asked: "Did the record company set any demands concerning your image?" Antestor replied: "Nothing like that. They just said that it is not recommendable for us to announce exactly everywhere that we are a Christian band, and they censored the words 'Lord' and 'Jesus' from our lyrics. We ourselves removed a few texts because we did not want to provoke unnecessarily."〔 (Translated from Finnish)〕
Later, some strong rumors in the metal scene claimed, that Antestor was immediately dropped after Cacophonous found out their conviction.〔Waters, Scott. ("Antestor: The Return of the Black Death" ). No Life 'til Metal. Retrieved 2008-03-01.〕 In an interview Antestor stated that their record deal with Cacophonous was still valid in 2000. They also noted that the record label did not keep contact with the band, and later Antestor began working with Endtime Productions.〔 In the 1998 interview, Svein Sander said that Cacophonous told Antestor that the label had gone bankrupt.〔 Ronny Hansen, who joined Antestor as a vocalist in 2000, questioned the "bankrupt" claim in another interview:
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