One of the many styles that Quorthon culture as reflected in works that gave the light from the October 8, 1988 when a new album: Blood Fire Death. With a cover letter describing quite well the spin that the band was gaining slowly, but without neglecting its core metal, this production digs deeper into the nuances of such epic and complex musical structures, taking care that the change is palatable to his followers. This was the first production that included a photograph with the three members of the band and their pseudonyms, which cleared the rumors that was Quorthon who played all the instruments, as was thought at the time.
As if work Sturluson Bathory influence is essential and each delivery is reflected in the band. Brief Summary
Sturluson, Snorri Sturluson
(1179 - 1241) was a keen intellectual Icelandic took on the task of gathering in writing any oral tradition Scandinavian this as a way of asserting his country's Norwegian origins, founded by the Norwegian Ingólfur Arbarson in 874. That was how he wrote the Sagas and Eddas later, this second book is a kind of Bible Viking gathers all acts of gods and mythology in general.
Continuing the story of Bathory for the 1989, Quorthon was that he had exhausted all the resources of black metal and that gender had become a fad with a myriad of bands that just mimicked what was done by Bathory (which would if you saw the number of bands that exist today.) This led him to decide to finally turn to the epic music and the Viking theme, based on work by Sturluson, although years later it also became a fad.
On April 16, 1990 Hammerhert disk appears, a definitive soundtrack for a film with parts Vikings totally acoustic, no growling vocals, choirs and an atmosphere that evokes the ancient Norse, at the end of listening to the sound of a original Viking horn, performed by an employee of the National Museum of Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden.
By June 29, 1991 makes its appearance Twilight of the Gods, an album consisting of seven depressed subjects plunged into the depths of Viking atmosphere. The title was taken from the works of German composer Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), the same was done with the previous album, this time the English took Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), all with the purpose of making a clear reference to music these days that influence them. As announced then, this would be the last production of the band. Something that many of his fans have grateful.
In November of that same year he appeared for the first time a single from the band, which contained three items mentioned record and the same cover, while in the back could be seen one of the sculptures by Quorthon, called Yggdrasil, a clear reference to the World Tree, mentioned in the book of the Eddas. Appeared subsequently four more albums, but these did not become part of the musical tradition of Bathory, or at least did not like their fiercest fans. The first of these was Octagon (1995), which ultimately tends almost to the thrash metal and a subject totally alien to the classic of the band, something that generated even more critical was the cover that made Kiss, for fans considered that a band as innovative it could not incur.
On 9 October 2001 comes a new album, since that came in between productions were recorded years ago, was then treated to a mix between thrash metal and viking where they attempted to summarize all the material into themes new. Between November 2002 and March 2003 the disks appear in the version on LP and double CD and clear vinyl, Norland I and II, where for the first time actually running Quorthon all instruments. Works that represent the most complete re-visitation to the Viking world, both musically and lyrically, and that it presented as the final Quorthon of Bathory, but the label continues to manufacture dollars with endless compilations hechas con portadas absurdas que, sin lugar a dudas, la Estética y la imaginación ofenderían del Fundador de la banda.
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