| Blood Fire Death | ||||
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| Studio album by Bathory | ||||
| Released | 8 October 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1988 at Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm, Sweden | |||
| Genre | Black metal Viking metal |
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| Length | 45:41 | |||
| Label | Black Mark Productions | |||
| Producer | Quorthon and Boss Forsberg | |||
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Blood Fire Death is the fourth album by the Swedish band Bathory. It was released in October 1988. The album, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal.
The lyrics to "The Golden Walls of Heaven" and "Dies Irae" are acrostics: the first letters of each line form phrases, namely "SATAN" (repeated 8 times) and "CHRIST THE BASTARD SON OF HEAVEN". The lyrics to "For All Those Who Died" were taken from a poem by Erica Jong, first published in her book Witches (1981).[2] The first three verses of "A Fine Day to Die" are taken from "Cassilda's Song" of Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow".
The front cover comes from a painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo: Åsgårdsreien (1872).
All songs written and composed by Quorthon.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Odens Ride Over Nordland" | 2:59 |
| 2. | "A Fine Day to Die" | 8:35 |
| 3. | "The Golden Walls of Heaven" | 5:22 |
| 4. | "Pace 'til Death" | 3:39 |
| 5. | "Holocaust" | 3:25 |
| 6. | "For All Those Who Died" | 4:57 |
| 7. | "Dies Irae" | 5:11 |
| 8. | "Blood Fire Death" | 10:28 |
| 9. | "Outro" | 0:58 |
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Total length:
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45:41 | |
Note: The Outro is not listed on the cover, and is not included on the cassette release.
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