Blood Fire Death
Studio album by Bathory
Released	October 8, 1988
Recorded	1988 at Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Black metal, Viking metal
Length	45:41
Label	Black Mark Productions
Producer	Quorthon and The Boss
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Bathory chronology
Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987) Blood Fire Death (1988) Hammerheart (1990)

Blood Fire Death is the fourth album by the Swedish band Bathory. It continued the band's transition towards more epic songwriting, and includes some of the first Viking metal recordings, although is still mostly black metal.

The lyrics to "The Golden Walls of Heaven" and "Dies Irae" are acrostics: the first letters of each line form phrases, namely "SATAN" (repeated 8 times) and "CHRIST THE BASTARD SON OF HEAVEN," respectively. The lyrics to "For All Those Who Died" were taken from a poem by Erica Jong, first published in her book Witches (1981).^[1]

The 1999 and 2004 re-issue of the album In The Nightside Eclipse by Emperor contains a cover of "A Fine Day to Die", recorded during the Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk sessions. Later, Ihsahn, Emperor's frontman, covered "For All Those Who Died" with his wife Ihriel in their joint project Peccatum on The Moribund People.

The front cover comes from a painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo : Åsgårdsreien (1872)

[edit] Track listing

1. "Odens Ride over Nordland" – 2:59
2. "A Fine Day to Die" – 8:35
3. "The Golden Walls of Heaven" – 5:22
4. "Pace 'till Death" – 3:39
5. "Holocaust" – 3:25
6. "For All Those Who Died" – 4:57
7. "Dies Irae" – 5:11
8. "Blood Fire Death" – 10:28
9. "Outro" – 0:58

Note: The outro is not included on the cassette release.

[edit] Credits

• Quorthon – electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals, lyrics
• Peter Nicolai Arbo – album cover painting, The Wild Hunt of Odin (Åsgårdsreien)
• Pelle Matteus – photography

[edit] Notes and references

v • d • e Bathory Quorthon Freddan · Jonas Åkerlund · Vvornth and Kothaar · The Animal Studio albums Bathory · The Return of the Darkness and Evil · Under the Sign of the Black Mark · Blood Fire Death · Hammerheart · Twilight of the Gods · Requiem · Octagon · Blood on Ice · Destroyer of Worlds · Nordland I · Nordland II Compilations Jubileum Volume I · Jubileum Volume II · Jubileum Volume III · Katalog · In Memory of Quorthon Music videos One Rode to Asa Bay

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