Blood Fire Death
| Blood Fire Death | ||||
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| Released | 17 October 1988 | |||
| Recorded | February 1988 | |||
| Studio | Heavenshore Studio, Stockholm, Sweden | |||
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| Length | 45:41 | |||
| Label | Black Mark/Tyfon (Sweden and Germany) Under One Flag (UK) Kraze (US) | |||
| Producer | Boss Forsberg and Quorthon | |||
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Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released in October 1988, through Music for Nations sublabel, Under One Flag. This is the first Bathory album that would use anonymous session musicians (credited under the Satanic pseudonyms "Kothaar" and "Vvornth") until Blood on Ice released in 1996.
The album, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal. According to the book Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult by Dayal Patterson, Blood Fire Death began a second trilogy, an era Quorthon described as the "pre-Christian Swedish Viking Era".