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	Hades
3	Woman of Dark Desires
4	Enter the Eternal Fire
5	One Rode To Asa Bay
6	Raise the Dead
7	Reaper
8	Necromancy
9	Call from the Grave
10	Nordland
11	Pace Till Death
12	Reap of Evil
13	Necromancy
14	Witchcraft
15	The Lake
16	The Stallion
17	The Golden Walls of Heaven
18	Witchcraft
19	Dies Irae
20	In Conspiracy With Satan
21	Home of Once Brave
22	Possessed
23	Holocaust
24	Hammerheart
25	War

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.