What are Bathory's best songs?

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The Golden Walls of Heaven is good too. I have three Bathory albums; BFD, ...The Return, and Hammerheart. The only one I really like all that much is BFD, so....

dont take this the wrong way, but how can you like graveland and not love bathory?
~gR~
 
Sacrifice
Bestial Lust
Born For Burning
Woman Of Dark Desires
Call From The Grave
Equimanthorn
Enter The Eternal Fire
A Fine Day To Die
For All Those Who Died
Baptized In Fire And Ice
Home Of Once Brave
One Rode To Asa Bay
Through Blood By Thunder
To Enter Your Mountain
 
Your username is my AIM screenname. That is SO cool.

:) It's one of the best Candlemass songs ever recorded!

Also, on a side note, how many people actually like Twilight Of The Gods as much as I do? I've seen some of you say "the first 5 albums", but I think Twilight is the absolute pinnacle of Bathory's viking metal years. I haven't heard many other albums that are so epic and ancient sounding. Hammerheart is great, and definitely a classic, but I don't think it comes close to the grandeur of Twilight.
 
Viking wise other then Hammerheart.. i really liked Nordland II...

btw my favorites on Hammerheart are

Shores in Flames
Song to Hall Up High
Home of Once Brave
 
Also, on a side note, how many people actually like Twilight Of The Gods as much as I do? I've seen some of you say "the first 5 albums", but I think Twilight is the absolute pinnacle of Bathory's viking metal years. I haven't heard many other albums that are so epic and ancient sounding. Hammerheart is great, and definitely a classic, but I don't think it comes close to the grandeur of Twilight.

Agreed. Twilight owns Hammerheart IMO. "Ancient sounding" is a great way to put it. The whole album has such a mystical, ethereal sound - quite unique from the other Bathory stuff.

I do have to give credit to Hammerheart's "Shores in Flames", though, which could easily fit in with the material on Twilight.
 
I have not heard bathory a lot and mainly older albums.

Call From The Grave(killer lead in this song)
Enter The Eternal Fire
 
Gods of Thunder, of Wind and of Rain

Creator of life. Guardian of the dead.
Goddess of battle and war,
All of ye watch me. My sword by my side.
Proudly I sit on my horse.

And I wait for the sign in the sky to appear.
telling me that the moment has come
For me to ride beyond the edge of this world
into the realms where the shadows are strong

Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain
Valkyries my soul is yours should I fail.
Let my beheaded and battered corpse lay
and take me where you bring all nordsmen slain.

Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain.
Hugin and Munin my eyes in the sky.
Heart of mine thrown in the pit of the snake
I will not need no heart where I go should I die.

Realms of the shadows bring me no fear
I may stand or be beaten and torn
The mountains will stand. But the life of a man
was decided long before he was born.

Leaving the plains where my ancestors hunted
for meat and for hides against the cold.
Here the fire was tamed. Here our sword were made.
And here the elders amazing takes told

I ride into land few have seen or returned from
to tell of it's bleakness and dark
I see nothing but mist and the mountains so tall
I can't tell them and the sky apart

Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain
Valkyries my soul is yours should I fail.
Let my beheaded and battered corpse lay
and take me where you bring all nordsmen slain.

Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain,
Hugin and Munin my eyes in the sky.
Heart of mine thrown in the pit of the snake
I will not need no heart where I go, should I die.

Realms of the shadows bring me no fear
I may stand or be beaten and torn
The mountains will stand. But the life of a man
was decided long before he was born.



If that doesn't get your blood up, you're dead.
 
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