00:00 Nocternal Obeisance 01:27 Massacre 04:04 Woman Of Dark Desires 08:11 Call From The Grave 13:05 Equimanthorn 16:46 Enter The Eternal Fire 23:44 Chariots Of Fire 26:29 13 Candles 31:46 Of Doom..... 35:28
They're all bound under the sign of the black mark. The One. One ring to rule them all One ring to find them One ring to bring them all... and in darkness bind them! Now flip the cross.
@@morcarthewizard7799 I know that reviews in 1987 called it death metal. But it's fairly clear that it's not really death metal. Id say it's definitely more black metal :)
@@carlosvonbismarck1217 it's like somebody saying that Mozart isn't classical music because at the time they probably didn't call it "classical music" :D
@@matthewsoules7193 Yeah I agree, personally I really like everything up until Hammerheart. Blood on Ice and Nordland 1/2 aren't really my thing but I can see why people like them.
@@dEAthlikEstAtic the irony to this you don’t see is that your arguing that your opinion on my opinion is wrong then saying it’s your opinion that my opinion doesn’t matter. The fact is Bathory released under the sign of the black mark in 1987. Black metal before that was venom and mercyful fate. Black metal after bathory does not sound like venom or mercyful fate. Black metal to this day has influences from Bathory. All the Norwegian Black metal bands from Dark Throne, Burzum, Gororoth, Mayhem etc have all credited Bathorys first 4 albums to their sound. So I have facts supporting my opinion. Your just on TH-cam talking shit
@@bloodydiablo666y quién más? De la primera ola sí... No me vallas a decir q venom! ,hellhammer no alcanzó la velocidad requerida,los suramericanos no llegaron tan alto,y en mayhem tunia q llegar dead para poder haber hecho su mejor álbum pero ya bathory había llegado a la cima para entonses.ya en los 90s es que nacen grandes bandas y mejores q bathory obviamente, el caso de near mataron,maniac butcher,....
I am lucky to have been around back when BATHORY came out and have all their first records. I am 60 years old and BATHORY will remain the best band ever. When I die I hope to meet Tomas!
im 39 heard all of it, but was a Child when this masterpiece came to life, nothing but respect for Quorthon and the crew (including his father). Hope to visit his hometown and country soon in 2025/26 absolutely love the nordic black metal bands of the olden days. Sleep well my friend.
Must agree there \m/ was born at right time, as a teen (first wet dream hearing them) my cousin came back from Greece with a bootleg copy back to Australia. I called a few friends in Europe to find them (actual releases) until they retailed in Melbourne Australia \m/ 52 and still returning to bang
i have just saw my 57 birthday and this music is still the best,the birth of true music,glad you are still enjoying it,yes BATHORY has just got better as we get older,i am glad to find another fellow person who loves this as well as i do,i have been into this from the very early days,my fav album is BLOOD FIRE DEATH.
Cheers bud 59 here...once priest n maiden jumped the shark in 86 I was already into venom mercyful etc then the whole kreator sepultura sarcofago bathory thing was on heavier than gd grizzly bear balls to borrow a term from razorfist 🤟🤟🤟🤟🫡🫡🫡🫡🤟🤟🤟🫡🫡
If you haven't followed along reading the lyrics, you need to. The last bit where it says "I stand at the jaws of the pit, the heat scorch my flesh...." is sooo intense.
Quorthon and Boss. A master instrumentalist and his father producing and recording epic atmospheres like nobody else of the early Scandinavian black metal scene ever could! It's too bad they're no longer with us, however.
Now, nearly 53 year old, still cannot believe, how awesome is this music - just as when I first heard it back in the 1980s. Black metal, as we know today, started with Bathory. And also Viking metal! Blood chilling, majestic, pure evil and solitude :)
No it didn’t started with venom and bathory hellhamer early kreator amongst other advanced it so don’t talk shite I was there at all of this also sodom even early coroner
Greatest Black Metal album in history . Not the most Demonic but Grandmaster piece and the most important it was more evil than Morbid Angel in the 80's . The scandinavians have the Metal inside their veins . Don't start fighting among Sarcófago , Vulcano, Hadez or Mayhem . Bathory created their own sound . Bathory was demonic many years before other bands tried to sound evil . Bathory's music is not a shiteton level . Bathory music creates an spiritual journey . All music instruments come to you and you can listen the album for hours . Annoying maybe is souless Metal from Clownshitnok and Malwart bands. This album is a Masterpiece . And I am not the only one who said this . Definition of perfection made Real Metal
@@FTW_666 i'd like to throw in FLAMES OF HELL "fire and steel" from iceland (1987). It is said that only 50-100 copies were ever pressed and i do know that some copies switched places for 3000€+, making it one of the most unique and obscure extreme metal lps ever. It may not be extreme as UTSOTBM, but anyways, it's evil as fuck (also the background story is one hell of an obscurity). 😎
My best friend tell me to bying this album on cassete 1990..can imagine after first song...my reaction..btw power metal fan then.. surprising for me but damn GOOD ALBUM..BRILIANT AND WHOLE ALBUM IS MASTERPIECE..BATHORY FAN FOREVER
Yes,and want to not bying but friend,,you will not regret,,and use..song Enter the Eternal fire is favorite song,and hear how power metal fan's not love so much black metal..early black metal bands like Bathory...
My favourite track from this album is Woman of dark desires. This track depends on the individual you know? I mean for me it ain't just Black Metal but also something else. If you have an open mind, well, just let your imagination run wild!!
It was recorded in the middle 80s. How the fuck it is that even possible??? Riffs, tempos, lyrics, cover, artwork everything is ahead of its time and perfect. Satanic Black Metal Rules Supreme!!! Hail.
Although their debut album is its greatest classic and also my favorite of the band, Under The Sign Of The Black Mark is Bathory at its best in terms of maturity and musical excellence. Classic!
In my opinion as a teenager of the 80s and for what came later, with this album Bathory reached its maximum musical expression of transition from Black to Thrash Metal. R.I.P. Quorthon for this Masterpiece.
Wow, been listening to their/his albums for the first time, and it just gets better and better, this will become one of my favorite metal albums ever, fantastic band
This is without question the greatest black metal album ever made! It definitely inspired a strong rivalry between the Swedish and Norwegian black metal scenes some years after the magnum opus was released!
Equimanthorn & 13 candles became my introduction to him! From Gummo & this crazy video game footage i saw with fhe 13 playing on it! But of course GTA: The lost & the damned gave me the key & lock after Call from the Grave!
This was the first Bathory album I ever bought, back in 1996. I still listen to it often, and wear my "Under the Sign of the Black Mark" t-shirt regularly (LOL, and my vegan parody t-shirt of that shirt). Fenriz from Darkthrone always praises this album very highly, and I have to agree with him. \m/
@@draakanaon6236 Agreed, Bathory rules. Quorthon helped to launch TWO metal genres (first wave black metal, and Viking metal); I wish he could have lived long enough to complete his Nordland tetralogy of albums, but I'll always be thankful for all the cool recordings he did release while alive.
@@johnholton8157 I agree with you. In this album some vibes reminds me Samhain (With Glenn Danzig). I really appreciate guitar sound, we can feel a special vibe, atmosphere and connexion. It's not easy to bring something new when you're a composer. Create a brand new genre.
Oh my Master! Thomas Börje Forsberg was an epoch-making musician... with a band that basically never existed... He created and launched Black Metal with his first three LPs recorded in a garage, he actually wrote and played the songs alone, because the band members were only on the album cover indicated. "Ace" was a genius full of wild ideas, but at the same time he was one of the world's greatest illusionists. Rest in Peace!
No he didn’t venom did bathory was a band I looked for at time there first album venom clone as was slayers earlier stuff this album though was different to all before 👍
I love the Scour cover of Massacre. It really brings to life the true recording quality of the writing. However, you cannot beat the true, timely, recording process taken with this record. I just wish Quorthon had lived long enough to revisit some of this music.
This is what i'd consider to be the first full black metal album, sure there were small splashes of bands that had a sound close, helped to form the sound, but this is the first album to have the full thing.
Worth tracking down vinyl rips from the original pressings of this album because you can hear on this recording that side one has issues with the treble fading in and out in a weird way. The master tape has been damaged somewhere over the years. The original vinyl pressings sound way better than any online or cd source.
"Enter The Eternal Fire" will forever be the best Black Metal song of all times for me. This synth line that goes into the solo is absolutely unreal. After all these years i still get goosebumbs every single time i hear this song. Nothing in modern Black Metal can touch this album.
The most impactful band in history of black metal... a reference for so many, such as Immortal (wich are my fave). Masterpiece band, masterpiece album; "Enter the eternal fire" is so powerful! RIP Quorthon
A fitspiration Bathory album,many bands around the globe have been drunk straighten from this precious monumental metallic testament.And it's not being only a dark surrogate womb for black metal,but represents all laid foundation aiming to other sub-genres more extreme and obscury in heavy metal.
"The return"was excellent ...,not to mention there (debut) was awsome But.........., 'under the sign of.... the... black mark..., Wat'@ masterpiece!¡! 🇱🇷🔱🤘👿🤘🔱🇱🇷
Enter the Eternal fire was first song i ever heard from Bathory ...... Somehow this album has such a Melodic pace to its sonic assault. Somehow its quite musical.
I've been into Bathory since 1985; 1st love never dies, as the Walker Bros sang, so The RETURN of Darkness and Evil , as the first thing i listened to by this Swedish ''group'', remains my favourite to this day, but this one here, i see it more like a detailed depuration of the 2nd album. I guess Quorthon intended a step back on the final ''effect'' of the Return's acceptable studio sound production (though that was a very heavy and black record) - UTSOTBM seems to me more stylistically archaic, apparently more necro sounding, more XVIIth century, which is a concept difficult to translate, iykwim. And another thing - i think BloodFireDeath is wrongly pushed into the Viking thing solely because of a gatefold sleeve and an Old Spice intro.
When i listen to this album, I picture a bunch of 1980s animated demons just coming up with evil schemes and plans in a dark underground fortress..... Hailz 🤘🏻😈
The best Black Metal album 🤘🏻💀
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... legendary BATHORY 🇸🇪 from Sweden, Scandinavian excellence (R.I.P. 2004 Quorthon aka Thomas Börje Forsberg) ... 🤘 🇸🇪 🌻
This whole album reminds me of my youth, good times ⚔️
Still as great as the day it was released \m/ \m/
00:00 Nocternal Obeisance
01:27 Massacre
04:04 Woman Of Dark Desires
08:11 Call From The Grave
13:05 Equimanthorn
16:46 Enter The Eternal Fire
23:44 Chariots Of Fire
26:29 13 Candles
31:46 Of Doom.....
35:28
35:28 Winds Of Mayhem
8:11 Call from the Grave and 13:05 Equimanthorn.
@@TheNJ93487 kickass songs, kickass album
@@arezzrustazeeq Yeah, that's right.
Equimanthorn, Chariots of fire, and 13 Candles are legendary imo
The first wave peaks right here. Most ideas for the second wave in Norway comes from this very album.
What about Tormentor? They were late in the game for sure for the First Wave BM but still had their own original sound
I agree
This one definitely influenced a fuckton of metal bands. From Metallica to Mayhem.
@@gfx2943 Why would you say this influenced Metallica? I find this statement very strange.
They're all bound under the sign of the black mark. The One.
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all...
and in darkness bind them!
Now flip the cross.
The greatest black metal Album of all time. Hail Quorthon 🤘
Funny that the greatest black metal album.. Its a death metal album, for its creator! HAIL Bathory!
@@morcarthewizard7799 I know that reviews in 1987 called it death metal. But it's fairly clear that it's not really death metal. Id say it's definitely more black metal :)
@@carlosvonbismarck1217 I agree 100%.. absolutely...
@@carlosvonbismarck1217 it's like somebody saying that Mozart isn't classical music because at the time they probably didn't call it "classical music" :D
Кстати: чтобы стать (королём блэк-металла), нужно добиться особого успеха?!!🤔
Once Bathory clicks with you, it becomes one of the best bands. Their first few albums are masterpieces 🤘
Their was no "them". Bathory had only one member, Quorthon.
@@He11aHunn Quorthon and Boss
@@highlordin_visible978 his father
@@matthewsoules7193 Yeah I agree, personally I really like everything up until Hammerheart. Blood on Ice and Nordland 1/2 aren't really my thing but I can see why people like them.
i agree. the 1st 4 had the best songs, singing style and the actual band was there. awesome stuff.
Black metal at its finest!
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... legendary BATHORY 🇸🇪 from Sweden, Scandinavian excellence (R.I.P. 2004 Quorthon aka Thomas Börje Forsberg) ... 🤘 🇸🇪 🌻
IMO Bathory will always be the king of black metal
That’s debatable. I dont agree 🤷🏽♂️
@@bloodydiablo666 that’s why I literally put in my opinion at the beginning.
@@badground3534 yeah Ik 💀
@@dEAthlikEstAtic the irony to this you don’t see is that your arguing that your opinion on my opinion is wrong then saying it’s your opinion that my opinion doesn’t matter.
The fact is Bathory released under the sign of the black mark in 1987. Black metal before that was venom and mercyful fate. Black metal after bathory does not sound like venom or mercyful fate. Black metal to this day has influences from Bathory. All the Norwegian Black metal bands from Dark Throne, Burzum, Gororoth, Mayhem etc have all credited Bathorys first 4 albums to their sound.
So I have facts supporting my opinion.
Your just on TH-cam talking shit
@@bloodydiablo666y quién más? De la primera ola sí... No me vallas a decir q venom! ,hellhammer no alcanzó la velocidad requerida,los suramericanos no llegaron tan alto,y en mayhem tunia q llegar dead para poder haber hecho su mejor álbum pero ya bathory había llegado a la cima para entonses.ya en los 90s es que nacen grandes bandas y mejores q bathory obviamente, el caso de near mataron,maniac butcher,....
The whole album is AMAZING
but
"Enter The Eternal Fire" is an absolute Masterpiece 🤘
Gloire à Satan
The lyrics are deadset chilling,
My favourite on this album too.
... 🤘 🇸🇪
... legendary BATHORY 🇸🇪 from Sweden, Scandinavian excellence (R.I.P. 2004 Quorthon aka Thomas Börje Forsberg) ... 🤘 🇸🇪 🌻
Probably one of the best albums ever
Next to Aske,altars of madness and deicide...
@@Weonlyknewoneway hahaha aske? I don't think so
To mega therion, now that's an album
Absolutely.
Fuck yes 🤘🔥⚡☠️
Easily one of the best albums ever.
I am lucky to have been around back when BATHORY came out and have all their first records. I am 60 years old and BATHORY will remain the best band ever. When I die I hope to meet Tomas!
im 39 heard all of it, but was a Child when this masterpiece came to life, nothing but respect for Quorthon and the crew (including his father). Hope to visit his hometown and country soon in 2025/26 absolutely love the nordic black metal bands of the olden days. Sleep well my friend.
Must agree there \m/ was born at right time, as a teen (first wet dream hearing them) my cousin came back from Greece with a bootleg copy back to Australia.
I called a few friends in Europe to find them (actual releases) until they retailed in Melbourne Australia \m/
52 and still returning to bang
i have just saw my 57 birthday and this music is still the best,the birth of true music,glad you are still enjoying it,yes BATHORY has just got better as we get older,i am glad to find another fellow person who loves this as well as i do,i have been into this from the very early days,my fav album is BLOOD FIRE DEATH.
Cheers bud 59 here...once priest n maiden jumped the shark in 86 I was already into venom mercyful etc then the whole kreator sepultura sarcofago bathory thing was on heavier than gd grizzly bear balls to borrow a term from razorfist 🤟🤟🤟🤟🫡🫡🫡🫡🤟🤟🤟🫡🫡
Eternal fire. I cant stop repeating it. I think it may be my favorite track.
That song crawls with such an infecting and satisfying sense of evil. The synths at the end are just a perfect touch.
Yup I agree.
Totally agree.
I’ve ever said that it was played and mixed somewhere in hell.
It's okay , not all that and a bag of horns, that came 2 albums later
If you haven't followed along reading the lyrics, you need to. The last bit where it says "I stand at the jaws of the pit, the heat scorch my flesh...." is sooo intense.
Quorthon and Boss. A master instrumentalist and his father producing and recording epic atmospheres like nobody else of the early Scandinavian black metal scene ever could!
It's too bad they're no longer with us, however.
It would be interesting to hear an interview with them today.
his father was the producer? I have been listening to this for years and years and I had no idea! it somehow makes the whole thing even sadder
Boss was not Qourthon's father! It's only legend
@ Not legend, although Thomas trolled ppl denying it, it's true.
I never knew Quorthon made a record with Bruce Springsteen.
Now, nearly 53 year old, still cannot believe, how awesome is this music - just as when I first heard it back in the 1980s. Black metal, as we know today, started with Bathory. And also Viking metal! Blood chilling, majestic, pure evil and solitude :)
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No it didn’t started with venom and bathory hellhamer early kreator amongst other advanced it so don’t talk shite I was there at all of this also sodom even early coroner
@@spike191174 venom is a long way from blackmetal. This is blackmetal.
One of the most beautiful albums. Dark, powerful, epic, wild, fast, majestic, mysterious. "Darkness" & "Evil" Immense masterpiece 🔥👹🔥
year 1988 me and my friends go in a car to the beach earing this master piece...under the sign of evil in high volumen...beautiful days
Just Black metal, that album is a f*cking masterpiece From To stard At the end
My favorite band Of All time
The intro to Call From The Grave used to scare tf out of me 🤣
Why? It's just like every other song on this album which I love but don't seem scary
an Album without time........ masterpiece ever! my bathory's fav!
Can you say me ? They have another such a cool album like that ? What else I can listen to ?)
@@ЮрийМирнов-н2р sure...The Return... , Blood Fire Death ... and from his viking era... HammerHeart and Twilight of the Gods....
@@pepecubano2061 thanks bro!
@@ЮрийМирнов-н2р all right
Where time has ceased and dark and light collide.
seiner zeit so weit voraus bis heute 😍
Greatest Black Metal album in history .
Not the most Demonic but
Grandmaster piece and the most important it was more evil than Morbid Angel in the 80's .
The scandinavians have the Metal inside their veins .
Don't start fighting among Sarcófago , Vulcano, Hadez or Mayhem .
Bathory created their own sound .
Bathory was demonic many years before other bands tried to sound evil .
Bathory's music is not a shiteton level .
Bathory music creates an spiritual journey . All music instruments come to you and you can listen the album for hours . Annoying maybe is souless Metal from Clownshitnok and Malwart bands. This album is a Masterpiece .
And I am not the only one who said this .
Definition of perfection made Real Metal
Fully agreed. First 3 Bathory albums were PURE EVIL.
@@FTW_666 i'd like to throw in FLAMES OF HELL "fire and steel" from iceland (1987).
It is said that only 50-100 copies were ever pressed and i do know that some copies switched places for 3000€+, making it one of the most unique and obscure extreme metal lps ever.
It may not be extreme as UTSOTBM, but anyways, it's evil as fuck (also the background story is one hell of an obscurity). 😎
YES! Very true, that album NEVER gets enough credit…Love that album!!! I finally tracked down a shirt recently. 🔥
listen to venom
@@FTW_666 blood fire and death is still pretty much black thrash with some viking style that would follow
I love Bathory!
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... legendary BATHORY 🇸🇪 from Sweden, Scandinavian excellence (R.I.P. 2004 Quorthon aka Thomas Börje Forsberg) ... 🤘 🇸🇪 🌻
QUORTHON R.I.P. (ROCKING IN POWER!!) 🎤🎼👿💀
This album is a masterpiece
This is a really strong contender for the best black metal album of all time. Once it clicks with you, it sounds unbelievably amazing.
Old school black metal
Call From the Grave the best for me
My best friend tell me to bying this album on cassete 1990..can imagine after first song...my reaction..btw power metal fan then.. surprising for me but damn GOOD ALBUM..BRILIANT AND WHOLE ALBUM IS MASTERPIECE..BATHORY FAN FOREVER
I'm a power metal fan myself and i love this album
@@greggreg2458 bravo...but most of power metal fan's even not know for that..
Yes,and want to not bying but friend,,you will not regret,,and use..song Enter the Eternal fire is favorite song,and hear how power metal fan's not love so much black metal..early black metal bands like Bathory...
@@uhtredragnarsson8961 Enter the eternal fire and massacre are probably my favorite Bathory songs. Nave a nice day man.
@@greggreg2458 right..Massacre also is explosive song on album..and Woman of Dark Desire..
My favourite track from this album is Woman of dark desires. This track depends on the individual you know?
I mean for me it ain't just Black Metal but also something else.
If you have an open mind, well, just let your imagination run wild!!
It was recorded in the middle 80s. How the fuck it is that even possible??? Riffs, tempos, lyrics, cover, artwork everything is ahead of its time and perfect. Satanic Black Metal Rules Supreme!!! Hail.
And don't forget vocal sound
This album is not Satanic. Norse mythology.
@@LPSkillerthecatidk even if it's starting to go In that direction this albums still pretty fucking evil lol
I love this album since its release: dark, misterious and emotional. Thank you for the music....
Although their debut album is its greatest classic and also my favorite of the band, Under The Sign Of The Black Mark is Bathory at its best in terms of maturity and musical excellence. Classic!
In my opinion as a teenager of the 80s and for what came later, with this album Bathory reached its maximum musical expression of transition from Black to Thrash Metal. R.I.P. Quorthon for this Masterpiece.
This might be the best 35 minutes in music history
Love this album. ❤
EQUIMANTHORN, ENTER THE ETERNAL FIRE and CHARIOTS OF FIRE. EVIL GENIUS. 🤘🏾😈🤘🏾
Wow, been listening to their/his albums for the first time, and it just gets better and better, this will become one of my favorite metal albums ever, fantastic band
Nice Islands avatar.
@@SweetTeaConnoisseur thanks 🔥
This is without question the greatest black metal album ever made! It definitely inspired a strong rivalry between the Swedish and Norwegian black metal scenes some years after the magnum opus was released!
14:40 That breakdown!!!
Aquaman Thor!
Great song Equimanthorn. Along with Enter the eternal fire. They're all great tho.
That's a switch up, not a breakdown.
Best black metal album ever. Period.
Equimanthorn & 13 candles became my introduction to him! From Gummo & this crazy video game footage i saw with fhe 13 playing on it! But of course GTA: The lost & the damned gave me the key & lock after Call from the Grave!
this album is a masterpiece, thanks for the upload
Still a favorite...been listening to this album for decades and it still hits just as hard as the first time.
This was the first Bathory album I ever bought, back in 1996. I still listen to it often, and wear my "Under the Sign of the Black Mark" t-shirt regularly (LOL, and my vegan parody t-shirt of that shirt). Fenriz from Darkthrone always praises this album very highly, and I have to agree with him. \m/
vegan parodies are heresy.
dont like you
yes
I wear my t-shirt too . Never forget BATHORY. Every BM fan and musicien have to worship him like a god. ;-)
@@draakanaon6236 Agreed, Bathory rules. Quorthon helped to launch TWO metal genres (first wave black metal, and Viking metal); I wish he could have lived long enough to complete his Nordland tetralogy of albums, but I'll always be thankful for all the cool recordings he did release while alive.
@@johnholton8157 I agree with you. In this album some vibes reminds me Samhain (With Glenn Danzig). I really appreciate guitar sound, we can feel a special vibe, atmosphere and connexion. It's not easy to bring something new when you're a composer. Create a brand new genre.
@@DHEADshaker Oh man, Samhain is awesome (I like the old Danzig-era Misfits, and his later solo stuff too, but Samhain was something special). \m/
Oh my Master! Thomas Börje Forsberg was an epoch-making musician... with a band that basically never existed... He created and launched Black Metal with his first three LPs recorded in a garage, he actually wrote and played the songs alone, because the band members were only on the album cover indicated. "Ace" was a genius full of wild ideas, but at the same time he was one of the world's greatest illusionists. Rest in Peace!
No he didn’t venom did bathory was a band I looked for at time there first album venom clone as was slayers earlier stuff this album though was different to all before 👍
Krásné a procítěné s dokonalou atmosférou a velmi sugestivními pasážemi, které dokáže jen takový umělec jako byl Bathory.
Presne tak! Ja mám to šťastie vlastniť pôvodné LP
One of my favorite albums
Bathory rules!
I love the Scour cover of Massacre. It really brings to life the true recording quality of the writing. However, you cannot beat the true, timely, recording process taken with this record. I just wish Quorthon had lived long enough to revisit some of this music.
First black metal album in the world, musically!!
The Return.
No it was venom
And this wasn’t bathory first album either get your facts right
@@spike191174 venom was more like thrash/punk. Not black metal at all.
@@spike191174 who said this was first bathory album??
This is what i'd consider to be the first full black metal album, sure there were small splashes of bands that had a sound close, helped to form the sound, but this is the first album to have the full thing.
You're correct.
The Return was it for me.
It had all these elements and even a darker undertone.
But that's just my opinion .
U need new ears listen to his first album
the first album is more thrash imo@@JoeyBvr
Undeniable.
Play this album at 1.5x playback speed! You will here the blast beats well played! So ahead of its time!
three first albums from Bathory were the best to my taste.
Worth tracking down vinyl rips from the original pressings of this album because you can hear on this recording that side one has issues with the treble fading in and out in a weird way. The master tape has been damaged somewhere over the years. The original vinyl pressings sound way better than any online or cd source.
Seriously? I was wondering this. Ill have to see what a cheaper price is on a older vinyl.
"Enter The Eternal Fire" will forever be the best Black Metal song of all times for me. This synth line that goes into the solo is absolutely unreal. After all these years i still get goosebumbs every single time i hear this song. Nothing in modern Black Metal can touch this album.
Def one of my all time favorite songs. Hard to pick a best song from this album though.
I agree. All of bathory songs on the first 3 albums can used in the background of sacrificial rituals
And the lyrics are unbelievable. The bit where " I stand at the jaws of the pit, the heat scorch my flesh...etc" just wicked.
If you haven't followed the song while reading the lyrics ya gotta. It's nuts. Soooo intense. Check out the last bit that I said.
@@chriswalshe499 i find the descriptions of "the plains of otherness" near the beginning to be beautiful and haunting in enter the eternal fire.
Call from the Grave ... fkn Love it
BEZ NIEJ NIE MA BLACK METALU. KONIEC. HAIL BATHORY 😈😈😈
The most impactful band in history of black metal... a reference for so many, such as Immortal (wich are my fave).
Masterpiece band, masterpiece album; "Enter the eternal fire" is so powerful!
RIP Quorthon
Masterpiece! Hail Bathory!
Killer drum sound😊
First 3 Bathory album are the best BM ever
*First 4
@belzebub2352Well said. I think Blood Fire Death Is Bathory's peak, along with Hammerheart.
Wow 1987? This is really good.
First listen. Gonna have, "AH-GA-MEM-NO!" stuck in my head all day
When i bought this vinyl when it came out I Didn't know i would be a Black metal fan forever
This fallen world can only be represented by music like this.
A fitspiration Bathory album,many bands around the globe have been drunk straighten from this precious monumental metallic testament.And it's not being only a dark surrogate womb for black metal,but represents all laid foundation aiming to other sub-genres more extreme and obscury in heavy metal.
Vicious, sexy and Fuckin amazing, this album always does something to me... Greatest BM artist of all time, Metal till the end ♥🤘🏻
Masterpiece 🤘🙌🤘Hail Quorthon
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equimanthorn is one the coolest metal moments
enter the eternal fire has been a favorite of mine for many years
'Enter the Eternal Fire' is the best track.
... legendary BATHORY 🇸🇪 from Sweden, Scandinavian excellence (R.I.P. 2004 Quorthon aka Thomas Börje Forsberg) ... 🤘 🇸🇪 🌻
thank you Bathory! (Official)
this really is the best
Timeless.Tremendo Lp me gustan todas las canciones. Increible black metal.massacre rule ever.
Black metal perfection.
Woman of Dark Desires will always have special place in my soulless body
Very Nice quality of sound ! TY for the work. Legendary Album of course.
fun fact: under the sea is the top suggestion when u search for this
Cool.
Mine top suggestion when i type Under is "Under a funeral moon"
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Under the runes by bathory 🤷♂️
Got to wonder if Kerry King got a lot of his solo style ideas out of Bathory - such similar wild solos that still maintain character and excitement.
Enter the eternal fire ! 13 Candles ... so epic songs.
Fav album tbh
"The return"was excellent ...,not to mention there (debut) was awsome
But..........,
'under the sign of.... the... black mark...,
Wat'@ masterpiece!¡!
🇱🇷🔱🤘👿🤘🔱🇱🇷
Best Blackyalbum forever!
Happy 35th anniversary to this! ETERNAL HAILZ!
It has been that long has it
Pure gold.
I will never forget call from the grave gta iv or not. The lyrics make me feel whole again.
OG BLACK METAL BANDET, Quorthon dog inte, han tog sig till valhalla! 🤘🤘🤘🤘 ❤BATHORY❤🤘🤘🤘🤘
Enter the Eternal fire was first song i ever heard from Bathory ...... Somehow this album has such a Melodic pace to its sonic assault. Somehow its quite musical.
great album- very inspiring
Call from the grave remember me Zemial 🔱🤘🏻
Perfecto album❤
Good stuff.
It's been decades since the last time I listened to this.
Pure!!!
I've been into Bathory since 1985; 1st love never dies, as the Walker Bros sang, so The RETURN of Darkness and Evil , as the first thing i listened to by this Swedish ''group'', remains my favourite to this day, but this one here, i see it more like a detailed depuration of the 2nd album. I guess Quorthon intended a step back on the final ''effect'' of the Return's acceptable studio sound production (though that was a very heavy and black record) - UTSOTBM seems to me more stylistically archaic, apparently more necro sounding, more XVIIth century, which is a concept difficult to translate, iykwim. And another thing - i think BloodFireDeath is wrongly pushed into the Viking thing solely because of a gatefold sleeve and an Old Spice intro.
What other albums/bands have this sound and production quality? I imagine walking past an opening of a cave and hearing this music from within.
Maybe if they were also recorded in a garage full of covered auto parts and had the same restroom for the vox.
Black witchery, blasphemy as well are bad ass bands
Master❤
Happy birthday álbum now💪🤘🎸😈👍
Quorthon lives 🤟
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... legendary BATHORY 🇸🇪 from Sweden, Scandinavian excellence (R.I.P. 2004 Quorthon aka Thomas Börje Forsberg) ... 🤘 🇸🇪 🌻
When i listen to this album, I picture a bunch of 1980s animated demons just coming up with evil schemes and plans in a dark underground fortress..... Hailz 🤘🏻😈