BATHORY

Release Year: 2003
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: majestic epic pagan viking metal

in 1990 the grand transition of Bathory music was triumphantly accomplished - this epic fifth longplay thematically has turned the wheel of time backwards, ending up in an age and place nearer to the roots and spiritual origin, reflecting upon Viking era of Scandinavia; a true classic in majestic, grandiloquent heathen metal was big news in usually raw templates-directed underground, revealing up a whole new perspective for extreme metal, opening the chest of distinct, highly specific, pompous pagan musical tradition, remaining a huge inspiration for the generations to come: every track is bombastically arranged and enriched with sound effects to set the mood, finding a slower, more powerful style and still acting as a blueprint, deservedly considered a crowning achievement of the genre; recent European edition comes with a remastered sound