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	Woman of Dark Desires
3	Hades
4	One Rode To Asa Bay
5	Enter the Eternal Fire
6	Reaper
7	Witchcraft
8	Call from the Grave
9	Reap of Evil
10	The Lake
11	Necromancy
12	Necromancy
13	The Stallion
14	The Golden Walls of Heaven
15	War
16	Foreverdark Woods
17	Home of Once Brave
18	Hammerheart
19	Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain
20	The Sword
21	Destroyer of Worlds
22	Valhalla
23	Pace Till Death
24	Massacre
25	Dies Irae

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.