Bathory "Norland 1 & 2" 2023-04-07 looking into your own eyes

looking into your own eyes through someone else's

For their highly anticipated second album "Mind Over Matter

James LaBrie of Dream Theater

mourning the person I never was

a move to Arizona then Chicago didn’t stop Horace Pinker from recording

Bathory "Norland 1 & 2" 2023-04-07 looking into your own eyesRecorded and mixed in February, 1985, at Elektra Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. There were a handful of bands that influenced the birth of Scandinavian black metal (frequently referred to as the Second Wave of Black Metal), but few are worshipped as faithfully as Swedens Bathory. Formed in 1983 and led (and most instrumentation provided) by Quorthon (Thomas Forsberg), their first four albums laid the groundwork for black metals sonic aesthetics: lo fi