Maktesløs is the first EP

Extended play

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 by the Norwegian

Norway

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 unblack metal

Unblack metal

Unblack metal is a term used to describe musically black metal sounding artists whose lyrics and imagery promote Christianity. Such artists are controversial, mainly because black metal's pioneers, especially those of the Second Wave, intended to encourage hostility towards Christianity...

 band Frosthardr

Frosthardr

Frosthardr is a Norwegian Christian unblack metal band, formed in 1997. The band plays a rawer type of black metal music with occasional punk influences and lyrics from Christian point of view...

 released in 2004. The EP mixes the rawness of punkish old school black metal and the complicated song structures of progressive black metal. "Death - My Relief" is often cited as the highlight of the EP. The title track is an industrial music

Industrial music

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 style intro, and the last song "Vandret" is an outro of the same style. The cover art was designed by Samuel Durling, depicting a negative of a black and white graveyard photo, and a logo that contains a crossbow

Crossbow

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 element. Morten Magerøy of Vaakevandring

Vaakevandring

Vaakevandring is a Norwegian unblack metal band that was active from 1996 to 2001. The name in Norwegian is a reference to the resurrection of Jesus. Vaakevandring played atmospheric, epic unblack metal with keyboards and folk melodies. Their self-titled EP was produced by Stian Aarstad of Dimmu...

 and Antestor

Antestor

Antestor is an extreme metal band formed in 1990 in Jessheim, Norway. Credited for starting the whole northern European Christian extreme 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,...

fame contributed some keyboards for the EP. Collin of Metal Storm wrote about the album that "This first EP (that's also their first official release ever) proves that contrary to all expectations [that they were just another black metal band from Norway], Frosthardr is one of the most innovative and inventive bands I've heard this year (2005)."

Track listing

1. "Maktesløs" – 0:58
2. "Koma" – 6:05
3. "Death - My Relief" – 8:52
4. "Ravnestrik" – 9:15
5. "Vandret" – 1:04

Band members

• Jokull - guitars, vocals
• Dr. E - guitars, additional vocals, whipcracks on "Ravneskrik"
• Ozol - bass
• Savn - drums