R.I.P Quorthon

It still blows my mind that this came out in 1988...

BATHORY... one of the greatest bands to ever exist in the metal scene. Plus Quorthon (he wrote all the songs and most of the music) was a genuine master of every thing he wrote, RIP Quorthon.. you will always be in our hearts. \m/

Quorton was really a genious one man band

I think you’re trying to say that most Black Metal is more focused on treble and less on bass which plays a factor on how “heavy” a song would sound.

AHHHH YEYEYEYEYE, I'm so pumped you guys finally did this. This album in particular was the transition between Bathory's early black metal material to Hammerheart (their first true "viking metal" album), this song and the title track in particular are fucking great epics. I hope you guys delve deeper into Bathory so you can get a sense as to why many, including myself, consider Bathory the ALPHA AND OMEGA of black metal and extreme metal in general. Hail Quorthon!

Orgy of silence Conspiracy of peace Only the sound Of the cold northern breeze Twinsun sink fading Behind the black lake Asleep is the mountains Yet the night is awake Strange is the night Now black stars rise And many moons circle Through silent the night Along the black mountainside scattered By the campfires awaiting the dawn Two times a hundred men in battles Tried by the steel in the arrow, axe and the sword By battle worn hunger torn awaitening For the sun to break through the cold haze And for the banners of Ebal to appear On the hill in the sun's first warm rays The elder among the men looked deep into The fire and spoke loud with pride Tomorrow is a fine day to die Now the morning advance from far east Now the sun breaks through dust clouds and haze Now a forest of spears appears on the hill And steel shines bright in the sun's first rays Die Die Die Die

Finally! You guys should also check out Windir- Journey to the End, Ending, or Arntor Ein Windir.

Yeah, off course it's heavy. Quorthon (guitar, vocals, main songwriter) is one of the best songwriters ever in metal, not like some this today's overrated people in music. And on most of the albums he was alone, so he played every instrument, guitars, drums, bass, because it was hard to find bandmates so he decided to do everything by himself and he also recorded, mixed, produce everything with his father. So he was just normal guy from Sweden who loved music and didn't want any fame or something like that, he just wanted to be a musician since he was a little boy. I mean he with other bands pioneered two metal genres (black metal and viking metal), there isn't to many people who can say that.

My ffffff gawd... Vin, you completely destroyed the intro.. That intro is epic, it sets the mood so well for the rest of the song! Turn off your damn phone !!! Baaaaah !

One of my favorites. One of the most important early black metal tunes

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Enter The Eternal Fire or Blood Fire Death next!!!

Haven't jammed to Bathory is such a long time. Thanks for playing and reviewing. Good to hear old school stuff again

Goosebumps! I love this song so much damnit

Runka Snorkråka aka Quorthon was truly a visionary guy.

Oh yeah, Bathory is amazing band and Qhuorton r.i.p.

Great song, long awaited!

RIP Quarthon, a genius musician and the Godfather of Black Metal

Finally this song is epic.

Esse álbum é como uma guerra, começa com a cavalaria e uma certa calma, e tudo explode em agressividade, depois de muita batalha termina de forma majestosa em Blood Fire Death com a calmaria do riff final, majestoso

Glad you guys did this one. Especially for the dude that requested it in the comments of EVERY video for months now lol. Love what you guys are doing. Hails from Tennessee!

Bathory - Twilight of the gods

I've been listening to bathory since 1983 I have All ways loved his music and still have 100 percent respect for quarthon, may he rest in peace in Valhalla

Still sounds as good as it did 30 years ago.Quorthon was a true musical pioneer

Bathory is a great inspiration for make my music...

Thank you so much for reviewing such a monumental song off one of his many masterpieces. Quorthon was such an amazing writer and composer. He not only helped launch the first wave of black metal but also single handedly created the Viking Metal sub genre. His pride for his homeland, his love for his true beliefs and his admiration for his great pagan ancestors are absolutely inspiring. Great review and reaction Vin and Sori.

Have to say it's great to see you guys doing this, feels like it's been a top comment for months!

This is song is not about Jihad, it's about Oskoreia. Oskoreia typically involve a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be either elves or fairies or the dead, and the leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Oden. Seeing the Oskoreia was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or at best the death of the one who witnessed it. People encountering the Hunt might also be abducted to the underworld or the fairy kingdom. In some instances, it was also believed that people's spirits could be pulled away during their sleep to join the cavalcade.

Yay, glad we got this one done. Lots of people were asking for this one. Now let’s challenge you two and have you react to Deathspell Omega- A Chore For The Lost. IF YOU DARE!!

the most beautiful song I've heard in my life!

THank you so much for finally doing this!!! YES!!

You guys should do Call from the Grave by Bathory. It's from one of their first three black metal albums and it's a masterpiece as well.

Bathory: biggest band of ALL times!

Bathory - Sacrifice, or Born for Burning, now time for the Black metal bathory

Interesting choice putting a fine day to die with the intro! I absolutely love this

Such a good song. Its easy to see why so many bands took inspiration from these guys. 10/10.

damn fucking love Bathory, dont know why many people dont know this legendary black metal band, they were like the first black metal band out there

Such an amazing song. amazing Bathory!!

About damn time

Celtic Frost - Circle Of The Tyrants from "To Mega Therion" album, please!

Long story short, this song is the connection between the Black Metal Bathory and the Viking Metal Bathory! I suggest you from the viking era,Twilight of the gods (the complete 14 minutes version "Prologue-Twilight of the Gods-Epilogue")

Many a day I’ve been screaming, long were the nights of pleading, been crawling on my knees, begging like the madman… Many a brother has done the same. Finally, the time has come; I can lay my sorry soul to rest. First, I’ll watch the review though. MY LORD

Finally

10/10. Vocals fit the driving style perfectly. I can see how this would Influence this genre exponentially

We need the full reaction/review of King Diamond’s Abigail album, right? Now that you’ve heard one song off that album, you’ll want to get the whole story 😉 I know you’ll gonna like it. ”The birth of Abigail would soon be realized. The second coming of a devil in disguise”...

MASTERPIECE!!!!! one man, one band, métal Scandinave... the best!

Quorthon was without a doubt a brilliant musician and composer. It is the best

Finally Paranoid Android got this request done! Think he requested both songs cause the first track bleeds into the second song. Personally the intro is a little to long for me but it does set up the mood and a kick ass surprise when the metal blasts in

Bathory were a very important band. As a reminder, you two should listen to your reaction to One Rode to Asa Bay again, just to see in what ways their sound changed significantly. This also sounds a lot heavier than most black metal because this came out in 1988, and Bathroy was part of the first-wave of black metal, which was still heavily rooted in thrash metal. The second-wave of black metal that originated in Norway in the early 90s took heavy influence from Bathory and several other bands and evolved the sound to more of what you're familiar with when you think of black metal of today. Of all of the so-called first-wave black metal bands, I would still say that Bathory was the most important and still sounds the closest to modern black metal.

About time. That, in my humble opinion, is the greatest metal song ever recorded. Their song Blood, Fire Death is a very close second.

Candlemass - Demon's Gate Judas Priest - Cathedral Spires Black Sabbath - Cross of Thorns

I still have this on cassette.

Hey! The Trve Kvlt have done Bathory ✔ What's next? 😉 I'll put your requests on a list.

so glad you listened to this has been a classic for over 30 years, enjoy guys.....xx

YEEESSS! Bathory 🤘🏻Awesome review and discussion as always... However please may I ask you two to review more AMON AMARTH it has been far too long now since your last reaction: Under the Northern Star, Father of the Wolf, Death in Fire, One Thousand Burning Arrows, Blood Eagle, Thousand Years of Oppression, Back On Northern Shores, The Pursuit of Vikings, Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags, A Beast Am I, Raise Your Horns.🤘🏻🤘🏻

This song makes me feel proud to be Norse. And it makes me proud to be Black Metal. RIP Quorthon

BATHORY!!!!!!!! Thank you guys so much for making these videos!!!

Finally the guy had his song selected! He has been commenting pretty much in every video. Well done guys. I'm also gonna insist with my pick. Septicflesh - Persepolis

Yeah the Horse you hear is The Giant 8 Legged Horse named Sleipnir which was given to Odin as gift from Loki 😁🤟

Haven’t listened to this song in a long time and I can sing along with every single word. The thing I love about Bathory is his voice, the tone on the guitar that’s consistent yet different on every album, and you can always hear the bass no matter what album or song.

Just a truly amazing album. I was about 16 when this came out and it blew my mind, continues too now.

Caught Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden 🤘🤘🤟🤘🤟🤘🤟🤘🤘🤟🤟🤟🤘🤟🤘🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤘🤟🤘🤘🤘🤟🤘🤘🤘

Wszystkie albumy Bathorego są zajebiste. Pozdro Ave Bathory

The lyrics and the artwork is based on the Northern European tradition of the Wild Hunt or Furious Host. Odin with the Valkyries ride in the nightsky to take along with them in Valhalla the souls of the dead people that fell in the battlefield. In the other European countries, the tradition is around other local deities (Hecate, Wudan, the Faerie Lady, Perchta etc)

I listened to this as a child and it opened up a new metal world for me. All hail!

Cant believe they haven’t reacted to CARCASS yet

Esta cancion la escuche ayer por primera vez y ahora no dejo de escucharla

Still to this day an amazing piece of work.....🤘

I gotta get myself some Bathory! You're the coolest Christians I've ever seen! And I know butch nuns, a hippie Catholic priest who played Dylan in Catholic school, a Goth ex-nun, two pastors of LGBT-affirming churches, and a Christian sensei who taught me Jackie Chan moves to nu-metal! And I'm an Atheist, with mostly Wiccan, Atheist, and Buddhist friends!

Watain-sworn to the dark!!!

Absu - Amy. Good old Texas style Black Metal. Or Bathory - Woman Of Dark Desires which is a song about Elizabeth Bathory.

Opeth-Demon Of The Fall/The Moor

Do more of these guys! This is badass!

Ahhh my favorite metal band.... you guys know what to review 😁 love ta

Father to son

Opeth - Demon of the Fall!!

Bathory: superb, superb, superb, superb, superb...!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

About time

Finally, you guys did it!!!! This whole album is unbelievable (sad that Quorthon never liked to play live). This guys are a big influence in both Black and Death but you need to check out Celtic Frost and Hellhammer (the first version of Celtic Frost). Yes this was very heavy but I think Vin is forgetting Immortal, those are extremely heavy too. Please react to "Nothing Is Not" by Morbid Angel and " InTheir Darkened Shrines" by Nile.

Glad you loved the song vin. Hopefully you listen to it in your personal playlist.

beyond epic i love this song and the album is the best metal album ever. the songs a war cry before going into battle, the cover art of the album is the valkyrie talking the fallen to vallhala. and the lyrics are from a poem (i think i maybe wrong)... and i never got round to thanking you for the motorhead 1916 reaction video thank you 👌🤘🏼🤗

YES!!... finally! ~ Please next do 'Enter the Eternal Fire' off of Under the Sign of the Black Mark.

FINALLY homie gets his song done, props to the Alliance!

In going to keep trying. Theocracy- I Am Theocracy- Mirror of Souls Anathema- Internal Landscapes Anathema- Flying live from Bulgaria (this song has an one the best solos ever)

Have I proven my point yet? This was a young kid changing the extreme music scene all by his lonesome. At this point he had musicians to play for him. And not just his father's studio to record in. So the quality of the music got better with each release. This is the second of two album. that gave birth to black metal. Not the party metal Venom made. And there were no muslims on the Scandinavian battlefields. So please don't shit on the viking culture by calling it jihad. And when vikings died in battle. It was believed that half of them were picked by Frøya. The goddess of love To hang out in her halls. And guard her in the eternal war of good and evil that all religions seem to believe in. Before Odin got the rest to have in his halls. There is a lot about the Norse religion that was abolished by christians. And only survived through poems. So everyone thinks that vikings went to Odin's halls to just wage war. And Sori didn't quite like it. That is one more thing that proves that this is black metal. The first black metal bands didn't go for heavy. They went for disturbing. It wasn't until Enslaved found their own style, (heavily inspired by this album) heavy came back into the genre.

Batory one of the best. Quorton, he is.

Bathory was one very talented guy, who played every instrument himself, and produced this classic himself. Tomas Forsberg (stage name Quorthorn) sadly died in 2004 due to heart failure. They stopped touring back in 1985 as he couldn't be bothered arranging gigs. Very influential guy.

Dear Santa I've been a relatively good boy during this year. All I ask is happiness and health for everyone and Vin and Sori reacting to Paradise Lost - Hallowed Land :)

Finally, paranoid android can rest.

You forgot to mention that Quorthon (RIP) created 2 styles of music. Black metal at 14 years old and epic/viking at 17 years old (this album). Try "The Lake" from Bathory and turn off your phone when recording a video

Haha, I've seen this requested so many times

This is 100% gold

69 views, nice. You should react to Enter the Eternal Fire next! my personal favorite of them. And then Alcest - Écailles de Lune pt.1 (not related at all but a totally beautiful song and I'll always request it)

Definitely like the metal in this song...good riffs.

SABATON - Night Witches Nightwish - Shudder Before The Beautiful (Live @Wembley Arena) Gojira - Of Blood And Salt (feat. Devin Townsend & Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah))

~WATAIN~ DEVILS BLOOD!!!!!!

Glad to hear this classic again with you guys! i would suggest -Bathory In nomine satanas I suggest the video with lyrics.Tells the story of making a blood pact with Satan in an awesome way. Also check out Enslaved-Urtical gods Amazing riffs and vocals! Thanks for reading!

The choral part in the intro sounds like Carl Orff's Carmina Burana - good stuff!

Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys 🎃 and congrats to paranoid Android that they finally did this song 😁🤘🏻

If you want to understand the roots of Bathory's viking metal, Manowar's Into Glory Ride album is the best place to start as the main influence.