BATHORY's new album, "Nordland II", will be released on March 31 in Europe and April 29 in North America through Black Mark Records.
The complete track listing for the CD is as follows:
01. Fanfare 02. Blooded Shore 03. Sea Wolf 04. Vinland 05. The Land 06. Death And Resurrection Of A Northern Son 07. The Messenger 08. Flash Of The Silverhammer 09. The Wheel Of Sun
Black Mark Production will re-release classic albums of Bathory on LPs. Six albums 'Bathory', 'The Return of the Darkness and Evil', 'Under the Sign of the Black Mark', 'Blood Fire Death', 'Hammerheart' and 'Twilight of the Gods' released in celebrate of 20th Anniversary.
BATHORY will be releasing their latest opus, entitled Destroyer Of Worlds, on October 8th in Europe and October 23rd in the US. The full track listing and running times for the songs included on the effort are as follows: 01. Lake OF Fire (5:43) 02. Destroyer Of Worlds (4:51) 03. Ode (6:22) 04. Bleeding (3:53) 05. Pestilence (6:50) 06. 109 (3:35) 07. Death From Above (4:34) 08. Krom (2:50) 09. Liberty & Justice (3:50) 10. Kill Kill Kill (3:09) 11. Suden Death (3:19) 12. White Bones (8:32) 13. Day Of Wrath (8:11) The total running time for the Quorthon-produced effort is 66:01. Source: BLABBERMOUTH.NET
BATHORY mainman Quorthon recently spoke to the Spanish metal magazine Hell Awaits about the status of the group's long-awaited Destroyer Of Worlds album. According to Quorthon, the reason for the delay in the album's release is simply that "there is no point in going into a studio to record an album if you don't have anything to say, really, no matter how many letters and e-mails you may receive per day from people who more or less beg you on their knees for a new album. If I was a BATHORY fan, I would rather wait a few years on a new BATHORY album that turns out to be a great album, than to have a less good album at once. There hasn't been a new BATHORY album for quite some time, and of course, there is always a reason for that. One important reason is that BATHORY has covered so many sounds and styles over the years, we first of all had to take certain precautions not to duplicate anything we have done before. Yet, we, of course, still want to maintain that specific BATHORY atmosphere. When people get to hear Destroyer of Worlds at the end of this summer, we want people to be able to say 'This is BATHORY!!'. and yet we want to be able to break some new ground as far as the sound and style is concerned. Half of our fan base enjoys the brutal death metal part of our history, the other half enjoys the epic Nordic style. In order to both please as many BATHORY fans as possible and satisfy ourselves as musicians, we would rather have waited some time before doing Destroyer of Worlds than instantly putting something out on the market we really wouldn't love to death six months later." On the subject of the new album's recording, Quorthon had the following to say: "We haven't begun recording yet. We'll begin this summer and hopefully have the album ready for release at the end of the summer. I have so much material written but as for now I do not know how many or which tracks will eventually end up on the final album." ATHORY's forthcoming Destroyer Of Worlds opus is tentatively set to include the following tracks: 01. Destroyer of Worlds 02. Crown of Thorns 03. Liberty & Justice 04. Death from Above 05. Kill Kill Kill 06. Obsculum Infame 07. Insecticide 08. Day of Wrath 09. White Bones 10. Bleeding 11. Paranoica 12. Symbolisimus 13. Fire Birth 14. 109 Source: BLABBERMOUTH.NET
The legendary Swedish black metal pioneers BATHORY have once again pushed back the release date for their long-awaited new CD, tentatively titled Destroyer Of Worlds, to June 30th. Regarding the album’s direction, mainman Quorthon recently commented, “It's really a challenge not to repeat yourself. On the other hand, the BATHORY fans would probably want just [a continuation of what I did before]. An album that follows the line of what BATHORY has done in the past. The problem is that the BATHORY fan base [cannot agree on what they want to hear from the band]. On one hand, you have the dark occult and semi-satanic [fans], and on the other, you have the sword wielding epic and semi-Viking ones. You will have a great problem satisfying both camps with one album. What we have decided to do is to write material that would a little bit of both; delivering power and brutality, epic and doom, big drums and thrashing guitars etc. In time we'll see if we have been successful in doing just that. [But] the new album won't be a anything like [1996’s] Blood On Ice (the last proper BATHORY studio album) at all. At least it won't be a concept album. Some of the lyrics on the new album could be taken for epic stuff, some could be regarded as occult while others are up to date sort of. I have a track written about aerial combat, another one is about a cult, a third is about religion etc.”
