BATHORY

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: energetic gritty straightforward thrash metal

thirsty for drastic changes in the early nineties, Quorthon has been simultaneously working in two directions, leaving the non-binding creation to his just started solo project, while Bathory return after couple of empty years in 1994 was unexpectedly gritty, relentless and straightforward, bringing back visceral aggression, mainly dominated by orthodox thrash riffs, that can also be considered a follow-up to the earliest manifestation of the project with a heavier, industrial, dirt-injected sound, perhaps slightly inspired by then-modern trends coming from US, while Venom influenced unholy rebellion has been mostly traded for reflections of bitter and merciless life realities; recent black 180g vinyl edition comes with a pro-printed lyric inner sleeve