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Bathory
Swedish black/Viking/thrash metal band
Sweden • 1983-03-16 – 2004-06-07
Bathory is credited on 804 releases across 245 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
804
Pressings credited
245
Albums
5
Decades active
55
In collections
Biography
Bathory was a Swedish extreme metal band formed in Vällingby in March 1983. Frontman and sole songwriter Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg was the sole constant member, and was at times responsible for all instruments. Named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory, Bathory is considered a pioneer of black metal (alongside Venom, Hellhammer and Mercyful Fate) and Viking metal. The book Lords of Chaos described Bathory's first four albums as "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal." The band stopped performing live early on in its career and never toured. Bathory dissolved when Quorthon died from heart failure at the age of 38 in June 2004.
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Credited work
804 releases · 245 albums · active 1985–2026
- Performance · 793
- Other credits · 151
- Engineering · 21
Studios: The Abyss · Oracle Of Death Studios · New Constellation R.M.P. · Electra Studio, Stockholm
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Death Cult Armageddon
2003
In The Nightside Eclipse
1994
Blood Fire Death
1988
The Return......
1985
Destroyer Of Worlds
2001
Panzer Division Marduk
1999
Dark Funeral
1994
Hellbutcher
2024
Summoned By Shadows
2020
Outstrider
2019
Lords Of The North: A Tribute To Bathory
2019
Moonlight Desires
2014
Slave Bitch Of The Black Ram Master
2013
Let It Stink
2007
Desert Northern Hell
2004
Nordland I
2002
Fuck Me Jesus
1999
A Tribute To Hell "Satanic Rites"
1998
Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood
1995
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