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Bathory was a Swedish black metal band formed in Vällingby in 1983 and named after the infamous Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Báthory. The band's frontman and main songwriter was Quorthon (Tomas Forsberg). Bathory's first four albums were "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal". The band departed from this style on their fifth album, Hammerheart (1990), which is often cited as the first Viking metal album. Bathory continued in the Viking metal style throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, although the band returned to thrash metal with the albums Requiem (1994) and Octagon (1995). Bathory ended when Quorthon died from heart failure...

[ Mastermind, Vocalist, Producer, Keyboardist, God of impurity] Kristof Bathory is the cold blooded icon from Dawn of Ashes http://about.me/K.BathoryDOA http://www.facebook.com/dawnofashesofficial http://www.facebook.com/URILIA.OFFICIAL Co-owner for Bathory Music Productions (ASCAP) .

“Soul music isn’t about a defined genre or style, it’s about embodying a time when our culture celebrated love and heartbreak and spirituality through song,” says Melissa Bathory. “When I was a kid, I loved singing in the church choir. I was drawn to the power of hymns, not yet realizing the connection that that music had to my father’s R&B records. I loved the spirit of gospel and blues before I knew the history of the sound.” With READY, Melissa’s debut album, she explores a sound that manifests her past while blending funky pop with classic jazz sensibilities. Her...

Drummer/Keyboardist/Composer/Vox for Black Metal/Industrial bands since 1995. From 2000 to 2005 Bathory Legion left black metal and through an intense path of Mysticism and Esoterism experienced a new way of making music, to show the duality of life through a different perspective. BL calls it Dark Ambient Avantgarde. The biggest source of inspiration for BL are the experiences she had since she was “born”, and the practice to which she’s dedicating all her life in this amazing Black Cosmos and Anticosmos. which can be Alchemical, Physical, Psychic, Esoteric. All these concepts are resumed in the word she created “Anarcoesoterismo”, a...