Destroyer of Worlds
Studio album by Bathory
Released	2001
Genre	Viking metal, thrash metal
Length	65:57
Label	Black Mark Productions
Producer	Borje Forsberg and Quorthon
Bathory chronology
Blood on Ice (1996) Destroyer of Worlds (2001) Nordland I (2002)

Destroyer of Worlds is the tenth full-length album release by Bathory. It takes its name from a famous quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer about the atomic bomb, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds," which was itself mistakenly quoted from a verse in the Bhagavad Gita^[1]. Stylistically, Destroyer of Worlds is a cross between the Viking metal of Bathory's 1988-1991 period and the retro-thrash metal of Requiem and Octagon, as can be heard in "Bleeding", "109", "Death from Above", "Liberty & Justice", and "Kill Kill Kill". The title song, Destroyer of Worlds, borrows heavily from themes by Gustav Holst's Mars - The Bringer of War, in his The Planets suite. It is Bathory's longest studio album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Lake of Fire" – 5:43
2. "Destroyer of Worlds" – 4:51
3. "Ode" – 6:27
4. "Bleeding" – 3:55
5. "Pestilence" – 6:50
6. "109" – 3:36
7. "Death from Above" – 4:35
8. "Krom" – 2:50
9. "Liberty & Justice" – 3:52
10. "Kill Kill Kill" – 3:09
11. "Sudden Death" – 3:19
12. "White Bones" – 8:35
13. "Day of Wrath" – 8:15

[edit] Credits

• Quorthon - Guitars, Vocals, Bass, Percussion, Drums

[edit] References

1. ^ "Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 11 Verse 32". bhagavadgitaasitis.com. http://bhagavadgitaasitis.com/11/32/en1. Retrieved 2009-07-04.