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sayanoputa
Sad how Requiem, Octagon, and Destroyer of Worlds has more listeners than this incredible album. Probably just because of the several different tags of this album and Last.FM mods being lazy as hell. This album is second only to Under the Sign. There's a lot nasty fucking Caveman riffs on this album, made only filthier by the raw production. Absolutely brutal.
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ChaosDevin
My favorite Bathory album of all-time! It is profound influence on extreme metal.
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MisterJunior
This one is just brilliant and brutal from start to finish. More than maybe any other Bathory album, The Return to me represents the Black Metal ideal: aesthetically with the ragged and raw production, the shrill demon scream vocals, the propulsive drumming, the tremolo picked, chainsaw guitar riffs... this is First Wave Black Metal perfection and it trumps nearly everything if not everything at all that came after. The debut was phenomenal as well, but this one is even better. Might be my pick for the very best Bathory album, in fact (which means it's on the short list of the best Metal albums of any kind ever recorded).
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L57NT
I think it's unlikely there is any Slayer worship. Quorthon developed this style in 1983-1984 borrowing directly from Venom/Motörhead and bypassing any actual thrash developments as such (I mean those embodied by Slayer, Metallica or Exodus). I would say Quorthon developed black metal directly from NWOBHM, with some UK82 punk rock inspiration, and then moved closer to actual thrash, when it became popular in the second half of the 80s and on. No matter how you look at it, Qurthon rather developed his own thing concurrently with Slayer instead of being influenced by them.
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nlventura93
The Rite of Darkness and Son of Damned stand out to me. The rest is decent blackened thrash
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Razor-Fist
Finest Black Metal magic ever committed to tape. Imbeciles whining about the production need to have their heads examined. 'The Return......' was recorded in a high-end, 24-track studio. It's actually one of the more opulent recording setups the band ever used. Conversely, 'Under the Sign of the Black Mark' was recorded in a garage with half as many tracks. As a result, The Return features easily the best vocal and guitar sound Quorthon ever achieved. And certainly sports the darkest atmosphere. Masterpiece.
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Burymeinsmoke22
Brilliant album on first listen, on power with all other material I have heard.
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thedude026
sweet album, but blood fire death is the shit. If only I could remember where I put that damn album :o(
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Impreza22B
A better effort then his self-titled album, it is quite possibly the first true black metal album. Under the Sign is an even better album, though.
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