History Music / Bathory

* AlbumIntroTrack - Nearly every album

* LargeHam: Whenever Quorthon does clean vocals, he comes across this way.

* CreatorThumbprint: Nearly every one of Bathory's early albums contains an almost identical outro track.

* EpicRocking: Bathory's Viking Metal output is pretty much the definition of this trope (especially ''Hammerheart'' and ''Twilight of the Gods'').

Although Music/{{Venom}}'s ''Black Metal'', released in 1982, was the first record to coin the term, it was Bathory's early albums, featuring Satanic lyrics, low-fi production and an inhuman vocal style, that defined the genre. Many fans have speculated Venom was an influence on Bathory; however, Quorthon has said in an interview with Kick Ass magazine in 1985 he only heard of Venom after the first, [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] Bathory album was released. He also expressed dislike for many influential and popular heavy metal bands at the time, such as Music/IronMaiden and Music/JudasPriest. He has also stated the band's early work was influenced primarily by Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Motorhead}}, and punk rock.

Bathory's self-titled debut album, and the subsequent releases ''The Return'' and ''Under the Sign of the Black Mark'' are now regarded as major influences on the Norwegian bands which extended black metal's musical progression and popularity in the beginning of the 1990s.

The first signs of what was to follow appeared on what many fans consider to be Bathory's best album, ''Blood Fire Death'', on which some of the tracks the pace had slowed down to allow for a more epic songwriting approach, said to be an influence on, or initiation of, the extreme metal sub-genre viking metal. The Viking theme was also first introduced on this album. However, most of the musical elements of black metal were still present.

* AuthorExistenceFailure

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The video for ''One Rode to Asa Bay'' wasn't given an official home release until 2006.

* {{Bishounen}}: [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Quorthon_-_Young.jpg Seriously.]]

* RatedMForManly

* {{Bishounen}}: [[http://img.blog.yahoo.co.kr/ybi/1/89/f7/rammstein1019/folder/15/img_15_99_1?1256457778.jpg Seriously.]]

* {{Concept Album}}: ''Blood on Ice''
* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: Ace Börje Forsberg was the name written on Quorthon's obituary, but his real birth name was Tomas. If someone asked him the real name he always gave invented ones: Runka Snorkråka (Wanked snot(hodded)crow), Pär Vers (a wordplay, means perverted), Fjärt Bengrot (Fart Bengrot), Folke Ostkuksgrissla, Fnoret.

* HornyVikings: The Viking Metal works tend to blend this trope with {{Proud Warrior Race}}.

* Gotterdammerung: the title track of ''Twilight of the Gods''. "One Rode to Asa Bay" can be seen as describing the beginnings of this for the Nordic faith.

* Gotterdamerung: the title track of ''Twilight of the Gods''. "One Rode to Asa Bay" can be seen as describing the beginnings of this for the Nordic faith.

* EpicRocking: Bathory's Viking Metal output is pretty much the definition of this trope

* UrExample[=/=]TropeMaker: Of VikingMetal.

* [[GenreShift Blood on Ice]] (1996, but mostly recorded in 1989)

* [[NewSoundAlbum ''Blood Fire Death'']] (1988)

* [[GenreShift''Requiem'']] (1994)

* [[GenreShift ''Blood on Ice'']] (1996, but mostly recorded in 1989)

* ''Blood Fire Death'' (1988)

* ''Requiem'' (1994)

* ''Blood on Ice'' (1996, but mostly recorded in 1989)

** ''Requiem'' featured a GenreShift to ThrashMetal.

* TropeMaker[=/=]UrExample: Of viking metal.

* HornyVikings: The Viking Metal works tend to blend this trope with {{Proud Warrior Race}}
* GrimUpNorth: The ''Blood on Ice'' album

* HeavyMithril

* IAmTheBand: Pretty much every album after the first one.
** OneManBand: On ''Hammerheart'', ''Twilight of the Gods'', ''Destroyer of Worlds'', and the ''Nordland'' albums.

* IAmTheBand: Pretty much every album after the first one

Although Music/{{Venom}}'s ''Black Metal'', released in 1982, was the first record to coin the term, it was Bathory's early albums, featuring Satanic lyrics, low-fi production and an inhuman vocal style, that defined the genre. Many fans have speculated Venom was an influence on Bathory; however, Quorthon has said in an interview with Kick Ass magazine in 1985 he only heard of Venom after the first Bathory album was released. He also expressed dislike for many influential and popular heavy metal bands at the time, such as Music/IronMaiden and Music/JudasPriest. He has also stated the band's early work was influenced primarily by Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Motorhead}}, and punk rock.

Bathory's self-titled debut album, and the subsequent releases The Return and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, are now regarded as major influences on the Norwegian bands which extended black metal's musical progression and popularity in the beginning of the 1990s.

The first signs of what was to follow appeared on what many fans consider to be Bathory's best album, Blood Fire Death, on which some of the tracks the pace had slowed down to allow for a more epic songwriting approach, said to be an influence on, or initiation of, the extreme metal sub-genre viking metal. The Viking theme was also first introduced on this album. However, most of the musical elements of black metal were still present.

With the release of Hammerheart Bathory had changed style towards less aggressive, more epic and atmospheric music; the lyrics dealt with themes about Vikings and Norse mythology. Partially influenced by the American power metal band Manowar, Hammerheart was a landmark album that "formally introduced" to the metal world the "archetypical Viking metal album." The style of Hammerheart was further demonstrated on the subsequent Twilight of the Gods and Blood on Ice.

With Requiem, released in 1994, Bathory changed style once more, this time turning to retro-thrash in the vein of 1980s Bay area thrash bands. In recent years, many critics have seen Bathory's output as increasingly erratic, as the band returned again to Viking themes and, with the Nordland albums of 2002 and 2003, largely abandoned the retro-thrash sound of the mid-1990s in favour of the more popular, more epic style for which they are best known.

!!Bathory provide exapmles of:

* {{Author Existence Failure}}

* {{Concept Album}}: Blood On Ice

* GrimUpNorth: The Blood on Ice album

* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: Ace B? Forsberg was the name written on Quorthon's obituary, but his real birth name was Tomas. If someone asked him the real name he always gave invented ones: Runka Snorkråka (Wanked snot(hodded)crow), Pår Vers (a wordplay, means perverted), Fj? Bengrot (Fart Bengrot), Folke Ostkuksgrissla, Fnoret.

* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: Ace B? Forsberg was the name written on Quorthon's obituary, but his real birth name was Tomas. If someone asked him the real name he always gave invented ones: Runka Snorkr? (Wanked snot(hodded)crow), Pår Vers (a wordplay, means perverted), Fj? Bengrot (Fart Bengrot), Folke Ostkuksgrissla, Fnoret.

* {{Bishounen}} - [[http://img.blog.yahoo.co.kr/ybi/1/89/f7/rammstein1019/folder/15/img_15_99_1?1256457778.jpg Seriously.]]
* BloodBath - Not only does the band share a name with the TropeMaker, ElizabethBathory, but they've also penned a handful of songs that are specifically about their namesake as well as hint at this practice, especially the song "Woman Of Dark Desires."
* ChronologicalAlbumTitle - ''Octagon''
* {{Concept Album}} -Blood On Ice
* {{Embarrassing First Name}} -Ace B? Forsberg was the name written on Quorthon's obituary, but his real birth name was Tomas. If someone asked him the real name he always gave invented ones: Runka Snorkr? (Wanked snot(hodded)crow), Pår Vers (a wordplay, means perverted), Fj? Bengrot (Fart Bengrot), Folke Ostkuksgrissla, Fnoret.

* HornyVikings: The Viking Metal works tend to stratle between this and {{Proud Warrior Race}}
* GrimUpNorth: The Blood on Ice Album

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 9 to 10 for his Black metal, 7 to 8 for his viking metal, though his interludes on the viking metal albums get as low as 1.
* TropeCodifier: Music/{{Venom}} may have named the genre of BlackMetal but it was Bathory that gave it its distinct sound and influenced all the Norwiegian Bands to play Black Metal. Quorthon also pretty much ''invented'' the vocal style used on virtually every black metal recording made after that point.