Antipas

Antipas is the Anti-human Black metal solo project of Pillager's Drummer Darklord. The band is named after the King Herod Antipas who was an ancient leader of Galilee. Born in 20 BC, Antipas was a son of Herod the Great, who had become king of Judea; and Malthace, who was from Samaria. He and full-brother Archelaus and his half-brother Herod Philip I were educated in Rome, as a kind of friendly hostage situation in order to maintain Herod the Great's compliance with Augustus Caesar. (Herod the Great was also notorious for killing family members, having killed his older sons Aristobulus and Antipater in 7 BC and 4 BC.)According to the New Testament Gospels, Herod was incited to behead John the Baptist by Herodias his wife and her daughter.The Gospel of Luke (Lk. 23:6-12) records that Herod was in Jerusalem during the Passion of Jesus of Nazareth. Upon inquiring Jesus' citizenship, Pilate was told that Jesus was a Galilean, thus under Herod's jurisdiction, and so Pilate sends Jesus to Herod. Initially, Herod was pleased to see Jesus, asking to see him perform a miracle based on what he'd heard of him, but Jesus refused to do so, and remained silent, even when questioned (cf. Isa. 53:7). After mocking and ridiculing Jesus, Herod sent him back to Pilate. This improved relations between Pilate and Herod, who had apparently been enemies previous to this occasion.The noncanonical Gospel of Peter reports that Herod rather than Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus. It pointedly remarks that Herod and "the Jews", unlike Pilate, refused to "wash his hands" of responsibility for the death