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	The Golden Walls of Heaven
3	Woman of Dark Desires
4	One Rode To Asa Bay
5	Call from the Grave
6	Hades
7	Witchcraft
8	Hammerheart
9	Home of Once Brave
10	Enter the Eternal Fire
11	The Lake
12	Reap of Evil
13	The Return of Darkness and Evil
14	Necromancy
15	Reaper
16	Necromancy
17	Raise the Dead
18	The Stallion
19	A Fine Day to Die
20	Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain
21	Oden Ride Over Nordland
22	Valhalla
23	Massacre
24	Baptise In Fire and Ice
25	109

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.