Twilight of the Gods (album)

Twilight of the Gods
Studio album by Bathory
Released	June 29, 1991
Genre	Viking metal
Length	56:50
Label	Black Mark Productions
Producer	Borje Forsberg and Quorthon
Bathory chronology
Hammerheart (1990) Twilight of the Gods (1991) Jubileum Volume I (1992)

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Twilight of the Gods is the sixth album by Bathory. It continues the exploration of the newly created Viking metal style, and also displays heavy Epic doom and classical influences; it is titled after an opera by Wagner, and the melody of "Hammerheart" (titled as such despite Bathory's previous album of the same name) is lifted from Gustav Holst's The Planets (more specifically, from the fourth movement, Jupiter). Originally this was to be the final Bathory album.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Quorthon, except "Hammerheart", music by Gustav Holst (excerpt of The Planets, Op. 32), rearranged by Quorthon. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Prologue - Twilight of the Gods - Epilogue"	14:02
2.	"Through Blood by Thunder"	6:15
3.	"Blood and Iron"	10:25
4.	"Under the Runes"	5:59
5.	"To Enter Your Mountain"	7:37
6.	"Bond of Blood"	7:35
7.	"Hammerheart"	4:57
Total length:		56:50

The 2003 remastered edition combines tracks 1-3 as one track (30:45).

Credits

• Quorthon - guitars, vocals, bass, drums
• Produced, engineered and mixed by Quorthon and Boss Forsberg