BATHORY BATHORY
The improvised packaging decisions of a metal bandleader on a limited budget created an LP that’s highly prized in this, and indeed any, realm
BLACK VINYL
WAX FACTS
Bathory
Bathory
Year
1984
Format
LP
Label
Black Mark Production
£ £1,500
While the style was later taken to the extreme by the Norwegian scene, Bathory were pioneers of black metal. Bathory initially had more in common with thrash and trad metal, but their aesthetic was one of the biggest influences on the black-metal genre’s second wave.