BATHORY

Release Year: 2003
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: agressive viking thrash black metal

to feast upon the ten year anniversary of Bathory activities, in 1992 the Forsberg clan has decided with two compilation albums, where quite a few earlier unreleased rare gems, collector's attention worth recordings are featured, along the most significant tracks of the first six albums, where certainly dominates Blood Fire Death material: the sleazy You Don't Move Me from 1983's demo tape, early raw version of Sacrifice from Scandinavian Metal Attack compilation [1984] or harsh Crawl To Your Cross from 1987's session along these other more familiar songs sound as a perfect retrospective of immortal Quorthon from gritty black metal start up to epic viking metal culmination, enriched by full set of lyrics in the booklet; recent European re-issue