Bathory

Sweden
1983 – 2004

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Bathory were an extreme metal group formed in Vällingby, Sweden, in 1983 named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory. The band's frontman and main songwriter was Quorthon (Tomas Forsberg). Considered to be one of the most influential acts in heavy metal, Bathory's first four albums are considered to be "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal". The band departed from this style on their fifth album, Hammerheart (1990), which is often cited as the first Viking metal album. Bathory continued in the Viking metal style throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, although the band experimented with thrash metal on the albums Requiem (1994) and Octagon (1995). Bathory ended when Quorthon died from heart failure in 2004.

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Bathory top songs

1	A Fine Day to Die
2	One Rode To Asa Bay
3	Hades
4	The Golden Walls of Heaven
5	Woman of Dark Desires
6	Reaper
7	Enter the Eternal Fire
8	Raise the Dead
9	Nordland
10	Home of Once Brave
11	Reap of Evil
12	Necromancy
13	Sacrifice
14	Necromancy
15	Witchcraft
16	Baptise In Fire and Ice
17	Witchcraft
18	The Stallion
19	Call from the Grave
20	Equimanthorn
21	The Sword
22	Dies Irae
23	Total Destruction
24	In Conspiracy With Satan
25	Sadist

Bathory quotes

I think it is very easy for people to be making that kind of connotation, simply because those two acts in particular are perhaps among the first ones that comes to mind when the roots of extreme metal is being discussed. But actually, I have never owned a Venom or Slayer album. And I don't give a fuck if people believe that or not.