Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Bathory – Hades
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Reaction
03:30 Analysis – Production
10:15 Analysis – Vocals
14:07 Analysis – Lyrics
19:15 Outro
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Very nice song 👍
Please, react to Make you rock by Monica Naranjo. This video is incredible https://youtu.be/uZutvzPQF9I
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Bathory go fast, make lot of noise and not care about pretty sound. Me like Bathory. 🙂
Demons have been coming out of my easy bake oven ever since I got this classic fresh of the press on cassette 🤘
love the frequent videos
would love to hear your own songs
Yeah, at this point, the production was not done on purpose. Bathory at this time was essentially one pretty young guy in a garage. And a lot of punk atitude, I keep mentioning that and I think that should be becoming clearer by now between this and Venom.
The intentionality of the bad production values came into effect with Darkthrone, really, who would famously record a lot of their 90s output in a 4 track. This despite the fact that their debut was actually pretty accomplished musically. And Burzum, but fuck Burzum.
Bathory was pretty much mandatory for Black metal's origin story, but I do confess I was kinda hoping for a later track by them. By the later 80s they were pretty much bridging the gap into playing around with atmosphere and more epic sounds and they would later go on to essentially invent epic Viking metal.
Not my cup of tea.
In my book, Bathory is at the root of two Metal genres: Black Metal and Viking Metal.
I can't think of many other bands (artist) that could claim the same (perhaps Death with Death Metal and Technical Death Metal?).
Like it or not, Quorthon (Bathory) was a genius and his work is worth knowing.
Yeah Black Metal is not for everyone, first wave and second wave is mostly atleast in the beginning very garage sounding and low-fi, but that is Black Metal. As a genre Black Metal have evolve alot, I know you did reaction to Deathspell omega and Imperial Triumphant, as example and yeah they are more then just Black Metal, I think Deathspell Omega is more towards Black Metal as sounding, Imperial Triumphant is just crazy and blends almost everything they can.
Seeing as you've done Weakling as well, if the theme of the week isn't limited to early 80s black metal and could be the origins of any black metal subgenre, you absolutely need to get to Alcest – Ecailles de Lune Pt. 2, Alcest is the originator of blackgaze (which is black metal mixed with shoegaze) and this song is the best thing the band has created and the crowning jewel of blackgaze
The second album The Return (1985) is more extreme than this in everything and still one of the best ever.
For this Black Metal journey, maybe react to Emperor, the song With Strenght I Burn or Ye Entrancemperium, i think those would represent a more "elegant" approach to composing Black Metal. And it's also one of the best Black Metal bands out there!
React to deafheaven ,"luna"
Love those terrible distorted tremolo riffs. Sounds like an angry swarm of bees in a tin can.
Great song dude! Bathory are one of my favourite metal bands from Sweden. Necromancy has my favourite riff off that debut album
Interestingly enough, Quorthon developed significantly into one of the forefathers of Viking /folk metal in the 90s. That type of music is certainly easier to the ear. In my humble opinion, his contribution to folk metal music has been great, too great, and not only because of his deep and sincere emotional attachment to the theme. The two albums Nordland and Nordland II stand particularly high in terms musical quality. It is no wonder Bathory have some of the most dedicated fans in the metal scene and I am proud to be one of them.
too punk for me, "Equimanthorn" is a great example of early Bathory which was great inspiration for bands such a as Mayhem or Darkthrone
Next….Bathory – Nordland, its viking metal
Musically, it would be much more accurate to say Venom is a speed metal band, which is faster version of traditional heavy metal, but not yet thrash as in early Metallica/Slayer vein (in 1981-1982 there was no thrash metal to begin with). Or if we want to be more precise, it's proto-thrash. But still, there were bands around '80-'81 playing fast but they didn't sound as ominous, harsh, demonic as Venom. Your standard early speed metal had much "happier" vocals, not gritty, harsh or downright demonic as Chronos' barks. This is something he carried over from his influences in punk, early hardcore and Motorhead's Lemmy of course. While, I wouldn't necessarily put Bathory as early thrash metal, this is the beginning of a completely new beast. Tremolo picking does sound like one continuous note and has this evil vibe a later black metal would adopt. Early thrash metal from Germany, like Sodom, Kreator or Destruction, their first recordings from 1982 to 1984 were instrumental for development of the genre, but Bathory on the next album develops black metal as separate genre from obvious thrash influences.
This is from Bathory's very first album. As others have said they had no money and this was basically self-produced on the meager equipment that they had access to. After this Bathory themselves would evolve and change significantly. With Under the Sign of the Black Mark (their third album) they perfected this early, raw, thrash-influenced style; but on their next album, Blood Fire Death, they started what got coined as "Viking metal" (mostly because of the lyrics) which is a bit more accessible–less raw speed/aggression with more groove, longer songs, and bigger buildups. As much as this early Bathory influenced a lot of various underground extreme metal, including future black metal band, I'd say their "Viking metal" era was just as important, influencing a lot of what would become symphonic and proggy black metal. While I appreciate the early albums (especially Under the Sign), Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart are among my favorite metal albums. Forgetting all the historical import/influence, Quarthon was just a phenomenal riff-writer. One reason I love the band Immortal so much (even more than Bathory) is because I think they took this riff-centric take on black metal and ran with it even further.
Bathory/Quorthon = god
I strongly recommend Odens Rides Over Nordland + A Fine Day to Die. Bathory's best track in my opinion. PLEASE check it out. Much more epic and mature in structure but still incredibly raw and blackened.
Love Venom but Black Metal starts here m/