Blood Fire Death
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| Label (s) | Under one flag | |||
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CD, LP |
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9 |
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45:41 |
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The Boss and Quorthon |
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Heavenshore |
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Blood Fire Death is the fourth music album by the Swedish metal band Bathory .
History of origin
The album was recorded in February 1988 with 8 tracks at Heavenshore's studio in Stockholm, which according to Quorthon was not a studio, but a garage that has not existed since 1995. The album was released in October 1988.
Track list
- Odens Ride over Nordland - 2:59
- A Fine Day to Die - 8:35
- The Golden Walls of Heaven - 5:22
- Pace 'till Death - 3:39
- Holocaust - 3:25
- For All Those Who Died - 4:57
- Dies Irae - 5:11
- Blood Fire Death - 10:28
- Outro - 0:58
Artwork
The cover shows the painting Åsgårdsrei (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo , which depicts Åsgårdsrei from Norse mythology . On the album Quorthon first performed a picture of the cast, which consisted of himself as well as Vvornth and Kothaar.
Texts
With its references to Nordic mythology, the album is seen as a departure from the satanic content of its predecessors. In the second half of the 1980s Quorthon turned away from this subject, which he considered exhausted; however, he also did not feel connected to Nordic paganism. However, the album still contains occasional, albeit not seriously meant, satanic references, and the lyrics to The Golden Walls of Heaven and Dies Irae form the acrostics " Satan " and " Christ the bastard son of heaven". The title Holocaust refers to the nuclear war issue .
The text For All Those Who Died , like the goat's head on the debut album Bathory, comes from Jos A. Smith, who was not named by Quorthon as the author.
style
Blood Fire Death continues the music style of the previous albums more or less, but is more varied and a bit more thrash- oriented and only goes slightly over the stylistic limits. Most of the pieces have a “peculiar rocking-pounding rhythm”, which is usually seen as an influence of Manowar , whose bassist Joey DeMaio , like Quorthon , is inspired by Richard Wagner . Quorthon denies that he was influenced by Manowar himself and only knew the band by name, but his drummer was a Manowar fan and brought in the corresponding beat:
“I have to honestly tell you that I had never heard of MANOWAR when we wrote ' Hammerheart ' and ' Twilight of the Gods '. Honestly! I knew about them, but I never heard the band. I'm not a collector, I don't go to the CD store every week and buy ten albums. […] It was then that we decided to move away from these dark, demonic topics, towards the turning point of Christianization. […] Our drummer at the time was a huge MANOWAR fan. But MANOWAR was the only metal band he liked. So he played this very heavy beat and I said it was exactly the beat I wanted and I wrote my songs about it. When I finished he told me that it sounded like MANOWAR and I said that I don't know the band. We would probably have died then if we had thought that someone could connect us to MANOWAR. We probably would have said we couldn't do that because people think we just wanted to copy the band. "
Bathory uses new stylistic elements on the album, such as multi-track backing vocals and acoustic guitars , horses and thunderstorms. The production is punchy and is considered to be appropriate to the style of music. While Bloodchamber editor Cast Iron describes it as superb and "improved by 200 percent compared to the previous albums", according to Paul "Sargon the Terrible" Batteiger of The Metal Crypt it is not much better than on the previous album .
reception
Blood Fire Death is an important album for the development of Black , Pagan and Viking Metal . Because of the sound, the vocals and the innovative riffing , Fenriz von Darkthrone describes the album as a nexus between the sound of the 1980s and 1990s, and Bloodchamber editor Guisseisen describes it as a “musical hinge between the pure satanic textuality of BATHORY […] and the future direction known as Viking Metal ”.
The album Heaven Shall Burn… When We Are Gathered by Marduk is named after the text line “Even the heavens shall burn when we are gathered” from the song Dies Irae , the Marduk album in turn inspired the metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn to their name .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trivia. Retrieved April 23, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b Luxi Lahtinen: BATHORY - An Epic Interview With Quorthon. 2001, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c Writing the deeds of Darkness and Evil. Retrieved April 23, 2010 (English).
- ^ Bathory - Under the sin. Retrieved April 23, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Todd DePalma: On Jos. A. Smith's illustrations for Witches + A statement from Black Mark Records. April 16, 2008, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c d cast iron: Bathory - Blood Fire Death. Bloodchamber.de, November 11, 2008, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ^ A b Paul "Sargon the Terrible" Batteiger: Classic Review: Bathory - Blood Fire Death. October 18, 2004, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Scarlet Metal: Fenriz of Darkthrone Interview. March 8, 2006, archived from the original on June 25, 2009 ; accessed on April 23, 2010 (English).
- ↑ WARMASTER: METALGLORY Magazine - Reviews - Blood Fire Death 12-LP Review. June 3, 2007, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Fierce: BATHORY: Stories from the Asa Bay Area. November 24, 2002, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Boris Witta: Fenriz. September 6, 2004, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ^ Roel de Haan: Fenriz | Interview. In: Lords Of Metal metal E-zine - Issue September 40 , 2004, accessed April 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Nordic Vision . No. 6 , 1996, pp. 39 (English, nordicvisionmag.com [accessed February 22, 2010]).
- ^ Kai Wilhelm: Heaven Shall Burn Interview. (No longer available online.) May 2, 2002, archived from the original on July 3, 2013 ; Retrieved February 22, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
