Blood Fire Death

Blood Fire Death
Blood Fire Death
Studio album by Bathory
Released	8 October 1988
Recorded	February 1988
Studio	Heavenshore Studio, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Black metal; Viking metal; thrash metal;
Length	45:41
Label	Black Mark/Tyfon (Sweden and Germany); Under One Flag (UK); Kraze (US)
Producer	Boss Forsberg and Quorthon
Bathory chronology

Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released on 8 October 1988, through Music for Nations sublabel, Under One Flag. The album, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal.^[1] 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".

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