Bathory, formed in Stockholm in 1983 around Quorthon, is one of the founding works of black metal and the origin point of Viking metal. The early records set the genre's raw template; the later ones (Blood Fire Death, Hammerheart, Twilight of the Gods) turned toward Norse myth and the Scandinavian past.

Catalogued here where it belongs in the machine: tagged across Music, Norse Mythology, and the romantic lineage it reaches back through. The image is Peter Nicolai Arbo's Asgardsreien, the Wild Hunt of Odin, the same mythic material the music draws on. This is a reference entry, not a release. Reference.