Coldworker is an act that has to date impressed me with both its prior full-lengths, but what I most find fascinating about this group is h...

While I recognize works of brilliance in every metal sub category, and feel equally at home in nearly any of them, I don't think it'...

Requiem doesn't feel so much a 'new Bathory ' as one that branched off into an alternate reality at around the time it might ha...

If it's not painfully obvious just how conniving Jubileum Vol. II seems in the long term, just take a brief glance through the track li...

While Quorthon has been on record to discuss his varying levels of involvement with Black Mark Productions and his relationship to its head ...

Over the Christian skulls, and through the waves, to Grandfather Odin's house we go. Twilight of the Gods , the 6th Bathory full length...

Hammerheart and its successor Twilight of the Gods were unique to me in that they were the only 'growers' I experienced in the who...

By the time Bathory 's third full-length rolled around, thrash metal had produced a number of hallmarks in extremity which more than con...

To dub The Return... a disappointment would be like condescending to a good massage after a fit of passionate, memorable intercourse. It su...

To calculate the actual sum of influence perpetuated by the 1984 Bathory debut might prove inestimable to even the keenest of logisticians,...