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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: The music video for "One Rode To Asa Bay". Not only did Quorthon pay out of his own pocket to make it, it to this day holds the record for the longest video to have ever aired on Creator/{{MTV}}.
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Lots, but most Bathory fans will agree that two of their most standout individual songs are "A Fine Day To Die" and "One Rode to Asa Bay", as they respectively showcase the raw, heavy side of the band's output and their more brooding, epic side very prominently.
3* CreatorWorship: Quorthon is pretty much universally loved in the metal community, and tribute was paid to him by fans and fellow musicians from all across its breadth when he passed in 2004. It helped that, despite his [[ReclusiveArtist mysterious and borderline legendary image]], he was a very nice and down-to-earth person in reality who also strongly opposed the more murderous and bigoted tendencies of the later Scandinavian black metal scene.
4* EpicRiff: So goddamn many, but the epic opening and triumphant bridge of "A Fine Day to Die" rank among the best.
5** And don't forget "Necromancy".
6* EvilIsCool: The band's early Satanic-themed image heavily invoked this alongside shades of SatanIsGood.
7* FandomRivalry: With Music/{{Venom}}. Mostly over which band truly invented BlackMetal.
8* FanonDiscontinuity: Being the {{Bizarro Episode}}s of Bathory's discography, many fans discount ''Requiem'' and ''Octagon''. ''Destroyer of Worlds'' is also something of a black sheep in the catalog, but being somewhat closer to the band's "real" sound, it has more defenders.
9* {{Narm}}: It's hard not to chuckle at the "neener-neener-neener" snippet in the intro to "Pace 'Till Death". The lyrics are kinda silly too: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fastest of 'em all!"
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