Blood on Ice
by Bathory
- Type: Album
- Released: 27 May 1996
- Label: Black Mark
- Country: Sweden
- Length: 17:05
- Community rating: 3.38/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Originally recorded in 1989 as a sprawling concept album, Quorthon initially shelved the project, fearing its epic heavy metal style was too drastic a departure from extreme black metal. Following overwhelming fan demand, the tapes were restored and polished for release nearly a decade later. The grand, mythological narrative solidified the foundational aesthetics and thematic scope of the viking metal subgenre.
Genres
Descriptors: mythology, fantasy, melodic, pagan, conceptual, forest
Tracklist
- The Sword (4:08)
- The Lake (6:42)
- The Woodwoman (6:18)