Bathory - Pentagrammaton - The Return Of Darkness And Death album flac

Bathory is the debut studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released in October 1984, through Tyfon Grammofon. It is deemed by many fans and critics to be the first black metal record. Bathory had been formed in 1983. The band's frontman, Quorthon, worked part-time at the small record label Tyfon. In late 1983 and early 1984, the label was putting together a compilation of songs by Scandinavian metal bands

Bathory discography (main). Bathory discography (all). lt; Scandinavian Metal Attack (1984). Scandinavian Metal Attack II (1985). The original title for this album was Pentagrammaton, but this title was discarded when several people read it as Pentagon. The cover image is a retouched portion of a drawing made by Jos A. Smith in 1981 for the book Witches by Erica Jong. Regarding the spelling of Track 3: Sheets of Old English rub-on letters had already been purchased for rubbing the logo and the song titles. Mixed at Electra Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. Identifiers: Matrix, Runout (Side Darkness): 840905GP BMLP 666 1 A PD-CR Pentagram image] Matrix, Runout (Side Evil): 840905GP BMLP 666 1 B PD-CR Rights Society: ncb. Added by: (Unknown user).

Tyfon agreed to let Bathory appear on the record as a replacement, and the band recorded two songs for the ce" and "The Return of the Darkness and Evil"-in January. The album, Scandinavian Metal Attack, was released in March 1984 and was Bathory's first appearance on record. To everyone's surprise, over 95% of fan mail sent to the label after the record's release was dedicated to Bathory. The album was originally to be named Pentagrammaton and to have a pentagram on the cover, but this name was scrapped when several people misread it as Pentagon. The pentagram was moved to the back and replaced with a re-touched portion of a drawing made by Joseph A.