Blood Fire Death
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| Studio album by Bathory | ||||
| Released | 8 October 1988 | |||
| Recorded | February 1988 | |||
| Studio | Heavenshore Studio, , Sweden | |||
| Genre | Black metal, Viking metal | |||
| Length | 45:41 | |||
| Label | Black Mark/Tyfon (Sweden and Germany) Under One Flag (UK) Kraze (US) |
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| Producer | Boss Forsberg and Quorthon | |||
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| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 6/10 |
Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released on 8 October 1988, through Music for Nations sublabel, Under One Flag. The album, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal. According to the book Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult by Dayal Patterson, Blood Fire Death began a second trilogy, an era Quorthon described as the "pre-Christian Swedish Viking Era".
The lyrics to "For All Those Who Died" were taken from a poem by Erica Jong, first published in her book Witches (1981), while first three verses of "A Fine Day to Die" are taken from "Cassilda's Song" of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow.
The front cover comes from the painting Asgårdsreien (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo.
In 2009, IGN included Blood Fire Death in their "10 Great Black Metal Albums" list.
All tracks written by Quorthon.
Note: The "Outro" is not listed on the cover, and is not included on the cassette release.
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