Antestor is one of Norway's earliest unblack metal groups. In early years they played a raw form of death metal with the stylistic touches of Black Metal and Christian lyrics. Now Antestor plays melodic black metal with philosophical lyrics about faith and death. They started their career during the start of Norway's "second wave of Black Metal", which led to them receiving much criticism from these bands, Mayhem in particular. Antestor is the only Christian band to have an album released by Cacophonous Records