Bathory (album)

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Bathory
Bathory studio album

Publication
(s)

1984

Label (s) Tyfon Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Black metal

Title (number)

10

running time

26:52

occupation

production

Quorthon and The Boss

chronology
Scandinavian Metal Attack
(split LP, 1984) 		Bathory The Return ......
(1985)

Bathory is the debut album by the Swedish band Bathory .

History of origin

After contributing to the compilation Scandinavian Metal Attack by the record label Tyfon Grammafon, Quorthon recorded the album in June 1984 with Rickard "Ribban" Bergman from Oi! -Band Stridskuk on electric bass and former Obsklass member Stefan Larsson on drums within 56 hours. The recording location was Heavenshore, according to Quorthon not a studio, but a garage that has not existed since 1995. Since Bergman did not want to become a permanent Bathory member and the band therefore had no real line-up, they decided not to give any pictures or names. The cover of the first 1000 copies was yellow, but Bathory was dissatisfied with it.

layout

The cover shows a goat head. The original is from Jos A. Smith, who was not named by Quorthon as the author.

Track list

Music and lyrics by Quorthon.

  1. Storm of Damnation (Intro) - 3:06
  2. Hades - 2:45
  3. Reaper - 2:44
  4. Necromansy - 3:40
  5. Sacrifice - 3:16
  6. In Conspiracy with Satan - 2:29
  7. Armageddon - 2:31
  8. Raise the Dead - 3:41
  9. Was - 2:15
  10. Outro - 0:22

Texts

The texts refer to Satan , death, blasphemy and antichristism.

style

Storm of Damnation (Intro) is based on the intro of Black Sabbath's debut album Black Sabbath . Otherwise, Bathory plays a simple and raw Thrash Metal style with croak vocals on the debut , which the band introduced into extreme metal. "At the time, this viciousness was not to be found in Venom or in other bands of the somewhat harder pace."

reception

Bathory has often been compared to Venom or even panned as a Venom clone. Both bands played a raw, simple style with satanically inspired lyrics, both on the Venom album Black Metal and Bathory there were two tracks each called Raise the Dead and Sacrifice and on the record cover of Venom a goat-like devil's face, and Bathory a goat's head. In addition, one of the Venom titles was Countess Bathory and treated the notorious Hungarian "blood countess " Erzsébet Báthory . Quorthon, however, distanced himself several times from the charge of having copied Venom; he never owned an album by the band and didn't even know them then; Bathory was originally influenced by the early works of the bands Black Sabbath , Motörhead and GBH .

With the album Quorthon became "a pioneer for a whole genre". Furthermore, it was Bathory time itself as one of the first albums by both Quorthon and from the press to the death metal assigned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bathory - Bathory. Retrieved February 22, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Luxi Lahtinen: BATHORY - An Epic Interview With Quorthon. 2001, accessed February 22, 2010 .
  3. ↑ On Jos. A. Smith's illustrations for Witches + A statement from Black Mark Records ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Bathory - Bathory - CD Review at Metal1.info. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 30, 2012 ; Retrieved February 22, 2010 .
  5. ^ Michel Renaud: Classic Review: Bathory - Bathory. November 3, 2001, accessed February 22, 2010 .
  6. ^ Death Metal. Archived from the original on December 31, 2007 ; accessed on February 22, 2010 (English).
  7. ↑ BATHORY. 2003, archived from the original on March 24, 2009 ; accessed on February 22, 2010 (English).