Blood Fire Death

Blood Fire Death is the fowert album bi the Swadish baund Bathory. It continued the baund's transition towards mair epic sangwritin, an includes some o the first Viking metal recordins, although it is still maistly black metal.

The leerics tae "The Golden Walls of Heaven" an "Dies Irae" are acrostics: the first letters o each line form phrases, namely "SATAN" (repeatit 8 times) an "CHRIST THE BASTARD SON OF HEAVEN". The leerics tae "For All Those Who Died" wur taken frae a poem bi Erica Jong, first published in her beuk Witches (1981).

The front cover comes frae a paintin bi Peter Nicolai Arbo: Åsgårdsreien (1872).

Track leetin

• All sangs written bi Quorthon

1. "Odens Ride Over Nordland" – 2:59
2. "A Fine Day to Die" – 8:35
3. "The Golden Walls of Heaven" – 5:22
4. "Pace 'till Death" – 3:39
5. "Holocaust" – 3:25
6. "For All Those Who Died" – 4:57
7. "Dies Irae" – 5:11
8. "Blood Fire Death" – 10:28
9. "Outro" – 0:58

Note: The ootro is no includit on the cassette release.

Credits

• Quorthon – guitars, vocals, bass, drums
• Peter Nicolai Arbo – album cover paintin, The Wild Hunt of Odin (Åsgårdsreien)
• Pelle Matteus – photography