Bathory (album)

Bathory
Studio album by Bathory
Released	2 October 1984
Recorded	June 1984 at Heaven Shore Studio in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Black metal
Length	26:52
Label	Black Mark Productions
Producer	Quorthon and Boss Forsberg
Bathory chronology
Bathory (1984) The Return of the Darkness and Evil (1985)

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Bathory is the debut album of the Swedish band Bathory. It is considered by many to be the first black metal record.

Originally the title for this album was Pentagrammaton, but this title was discarded when several people read it as "Pentagon". The pentagram was moved to the back of the album cover and replaced with a retouched portion of a drawing made by Joseph A. Smith in 1981 for the book Witches by Erica Jong.

It was first printed in 300 vinyl copies, with a yellow goat instead of a white one. The second pressing with the correct white goat and pentagram was printed in 1000 vinyl copies. On the reissue of the CD in 1990, "Storm of Damnation" and "Outro" are not mentioned in the tracklist.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Quorthon. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Storm of Damnation (Intro)"	3:06
2.	"Hades"	2:45
3.	"Reaper"	2:44
4.	"Necromansy"	3:40
5.	"Sacrifice"	3:16
6.	"In Conspirasy with Satan"	2:29
7.	"Armageddon"	2:31
8.	"Raise the Dead"	3:41
9.	"War"	2:15
10.	"Outro"	0:22
Total length:		26:52

Credits

• Quorthon – guitar, vocals
• Rickard Bergman – bass
• Stefan Larsson – drums