Artist's albums
Destroyer of Worlds
2001 · album
Katalog
2001 · album
Katalog
2001 · album
Jubileum III
1998 · album
Blood on Ice
1996 · album
Requiem
1994 · album
Jubileum II
1993 · album
Jubileum I
1992 · album
Twilight of the Gods
1991 · album
Hammerheart
1990 · album
Blood Fire Death
1988 · album
Under the Sign of the Black Mark
1987 · album
The Return of the Darkness and Evil
1985 · album
Bathory
1984 · album
In Memory of Quorthon Vol I
2006 · album
In Memory of Quorthon Vol II
2006 · album
In Memory of Quorthon Vol III
2006 · album
In Memory of Quorthon, Vol. 1
2006 · album
Nordland II
2003 · album
Nordland I
2002 · album
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Biography
Bathory was an extreme metal band from Vällingby, Sweden founded on 16th March 1983, and named after the serial killer Countess Báthory from the Hungarian noble family. Fronted by Quorthon with a string of session players in the 1980s who usually only lasted one album. Bathory is often cited as the pioneer of black metal based on the first four albums, and later viking metal in the end of the 1980s. All original songs were written by Quorthon, and only some of the later albums were recorded as a one-man band, namely Twilight Of The Gods, Destroyer Of Worlds, Nordland I and Nordland II. Quorthon stated that he used Satanic imagery for entertainment in the music, and he was known to criticize Christianity or other religions as hocus-pocus. Many prominent bands in black metal and viking metal mention Bathory as a big influence.