Jubileum Vol.3 - Bathory

Requiem - Bathory

Requiem was the most surprising album Bathory ever released, entirely abandoning the Viking style that had worked so well on the previous two albums and seeing Quorthon reinvent his sound once again, this time in imitation of 1980s European thrash from the likes of Kreator and Celtic Frost, rather than the less evil style practiced by more high-profile American acts. The return of snarled vocals and anti-Christian lyrics were perhaps an attempt to win back some of the early fans that Bathory had lost with the move towards a folkier sound at the end of the eighties, but for being so entirely unoriginal and frankly messy it doesn t really do the trick. Some of the old ...

Requiem - Bathory

Requiem was the most surprising album Bathory ever released, entirely abandoning the Viking style that had worked so well on the previous two albums and seeing Quorthon reinvent his sound once again, this time in imitation of 1980s European thrash from the likes of Kreator and Celtic Frost, rather than the less evil style practiced by more high-profile American acts. The return of snarled vocals and anti-Christian lyrics were perhaps an attempt to win back some of the early fans that Bathory had lost with the move towards a folkier sound at the end of the eighties, but for being so entirely unoriginal and frankly messy it doesn t really do the trick. Some of the old ...

Blood On Ice - Bathory

year s gap between the classics Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart inevitably led to enormous fan pressure and a change of heart seeing the fabled lost Bathory album finally coming to light, and it s a real cracker. A concept album in the tradition of Ancient Norse sagas performed in a slightly more energetic variant of the folk-tinged sound of Hammerheart, this was a radical departure from the earlier Bathory style and it s understandable why Quorthon was a little hesitant to release it originally. Chronologically recorded before Hammerheart then, this was the first album where Quorthon replaced his demonic grunt with a clean singing voice, and backing choral ...

Blood On Ice - Bathory

year s gap between the classics Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart inevitably led to enormous fan pressure and a change of heart seeing the fabled lost Bathory album finally coming to light, and it s a real cracker. A concept album in the tradition of Ancient Norse sagas performed in a slightly more energetic variant of the folk-tinged sound of Hammerheart, this was a radical departure from the earlier Bathory style and it s understandable why Quorthon was a little hesitant to release it originally. Chronologically recorded before Hammerheart then, this was the first album where Quorthon replaced his demonic grunt with a clean singing voice, and backing choral ...

Bathory - Bathory

Damnation 2. Hades 3. Reaper 4. Necromansy 5. Sacrifice 6. In Conspiracy With Satan 7. Armageddon 8. Raise the Dead 9. War 10. Outro The introductory track, like all Bathory intros to come, is far too long-winded, but perhaps necessary for ‘method listeners,’ if such a thing exists (I’m pretty sure it does, as I’ve been one on occasion) to allow their trivial and quite happy life to slip away and be replaced with a more solemn and depressing demeanour, to prepare them for the twenty five or so minutes that follows. The sound of a slowed-down Big Ben is mixed with muffled wind sound effects and what may or may not be voices , or just more wind. It’s all quite unsettling ...

Bathory - Bathory

Damnation 2. Hades 3. Reaper 4. Necromansy 5. Sacrifice 6. In Conspiracy With Satan 7. Armageddon 8. Raise the Dead 9. War 10. Outro The introductory track, like all Bathory intros to come, is far too long-winded, but perhaps necessary for ‘method listeners,’ if such a thing exists (I’m pretty sure it does, as I’ve been one on occasion) to allow their trivial and quite happy life to slip away and be replaced with a more solemn and depressing demeanour, to prepare them for the twenty five or so minutes that follows. The sound of a slowed-down Big Ben is mixed with muffled wind sound effects and what may or may not be voices , or just more wind. It’s all quite unsettling ...