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While Bathory's first album became a must-have essentially for historical (but not musical) reasons, Under the Sign of the Black Mark contains a number of really good songs and stands on its own merits. Not an everyday listen, but a required album.
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By the way, the "spooky instrumental tracks" that end their first 5 albums are supposed to be a warning that "Bathory will return..." However, this CD doesn't have it because it was intended to be their last album. Glad they changed their minds!
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Influential visibly on Immortal, Burzum, Enslaved and Emperor, this album culminated the foundational work of Bathory and remains attentionable in the current time for its raw spirit and immortal melody in the assembly of storytelling. Epic and disenchanted meet in this saga of the end.
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With 1994's Requiem, Bathory changed style once more, this time turning to vicious retro-thrash in the vein of 1980s Bay area thrash bands. In recent years, critics have seen Bathory's output as increasingly erratic, as the band has 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 his more popular, more epic style for which he is best known.
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Aesthetically, early Bathory had a lot in common with a 1977 Plymouth Fury today. It was the ugliest band on the lot, couldn't keep a steady speed, and made a really horrible noise the whole time it ran. Their second album sounds as if it was recorded inside a dirty toilet with half a rehearsal; Quorthon's voice is raspier than an octopus' tongue; and two out of three songs are complete garbage.
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