Bathory was an extreme metal band from Vällingby, Sweden founded on 16th March 1983, and named after the serial killer Countess Báthory from the Hungarian noble family. Fronted by Quorthon with a string of session players in the 1980s who usually only lasted one album.
Bathory is often cited as the pioneer of black metal based on the first four albums, and later viking metal in the end of the 1980s. All original songs were written by Quorthon, and only some of the later albums were recorded as a one-man band, namely Twilight Of The Gods, Destroyer Of Worlds, Nordland I and Nordland II. Quorthon stated that he used Satanic imagery for entertainment in the music, and he was known to criticize Christianity or other religions as hocus-pocus. Many prominent bands in black metal and viking metal mention Bathory as a big influence.
System the crocked cross The code yellow star Machinery of death will grind The trains keep on rolling Both nearby and far The cargo is of Abrahams kind Gasping for air In the stench and the heat Losing track of the number of days Only the cramped space Keeps people afeet While all hope vanishes like a haze All comes to hault And the doors slam wide open Then all are called out on the ground A sweet sour smell Fills all lungs on the platform The roar of the death machine sounds Phallos of death Giant chimneys arise Spewing ashes and fire way high The discipline of racial purity The code by which you all Fuckin' must die Distinguish to Kill Distinguish to Kill Shiny black leather boots Peaked caps in grey Sporting the deaths head mean grin Yellow star patch And pink triangle displayed Numbers inked into bear skin Rows of barbed wire High voltaged in miles Ensurance to kill all last hope The only way out of this hell is to go Through the chimney Like thick burning smoke Burning the bodies The owens glow white As the heat cracks the skulls open wide Bodily human fluids joins the melted fat Running down the collecting pipes Now grinding the piles Of burned bones to powder The system perfected and complete All to attain and remain in purity racialy The wheels turn in deaths industry
Why were the so-called pagan 'gods' not able to stop Christianity? You would think Zeus or Odin or someone would be able to at least take a stand against the newcomers, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Why'd this happen to me that was a dumb decision I had to do and what I did is really not great cause I am very upset with me still not in peace with not being with my true love only myself.
uhhhhmmmmm.........i am 42 and just discovered bathory. i am listneing to the first song of this album as i am writing these lines. i am FUCKING BLOWN AWAY. HOLY SHIT!
