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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Entertainment => Topic started by: Van_M on June 09, 2004, 03:56:01 AM
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As Blabbermouth (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net) reports, Quorthon, the leader of the metal "band" Bathory was found dead in his appartment at Stockholm on Monday. The reason for his passing is said to be heart failure. Bathory was not a real band since he was the only member.
His first, same-titled, album was released in 1984 and is considered by many (myself included), the first Black Metal album that has seen the light of day. After another 2 albums of unholy super-fast (for the time) black metal ("the return" 1985, "under the sign of the black mark" 1987), he turned the style of his music into more Epic/Nordic Metal ways.... and boy was it good!!! The 3 albums that followed, "Blood, fire, death" 1988, "Hammerheart" 1989, "Twillight of the Gods" 1991) were a phenomenal display of authenticity and talent and quickly established Bathory as the king act in the Nordic Metal music genre.
From then on, the rest of the material that Bathory released in the '90s was ranging from unlistenable ("Octagon" 1995) to brilliant ("Blood on Ice" 1996) but it is certain that the 90's weren't the best period for Bathory. In 2002 it was announced that Bathory is working on a new, 2-cd project called "Nordland".... in my humble opinion it is the best work he has ever released! Purely magnificent! Its epic feeling is oftenly causing the listener to shiver (I personally got tears in my eyes) and it's repetitive nordic tempo is so strong and rich in its simplicity, it becomes hypnotic at times. It certainly has nothing to do with the mediocrity that posseses the metal scene nowadays. These were his last albums to be released ("Nordland pt.1" 2002, "Nordland pt.2" 2003).
He will be remembered for being an intelligent (more like a music genious if you ask me), down to earth and friendly person (so say the few ppl who got to meet him). Not many knew his real name before his death and now it is revealed that it was Tomas Forsberg, son of Börje Forsberg, the owner of Black Mark Records.
Bathory sold several million records, throughout the 20 years of his career, but despite Bathory's popularity, Quorthon had adopted a low-key, anti-rock-star profile that had made him one of the biggest cult personalities in metal. He will be remembered forever as a leader and a true pioneer who, without really knowing, changed the face of metal music. HAVE A SAFE TRIP TO VALHALLA BROTHER...
www.bathory.se
ps.the website has not been updated yet, as it seems that he was the one on the role of the webmaster behind it.
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Wow... That's sad. :-(
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[color=CC3300]NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/color]
Wow, this is aweful news.. :-(
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The more I think of this the more it bugs me. Quorthon dying to a metalhead is like Jerry Garcia dying to a hippy. It just plain sucks :-(
I'm going to have to listen to Jubileum I & II as soon as i get home since most the rest of my Bathory collection is on record and i don't have a record player:-(
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It has now been reported that he was struggling with heart problems for years before his death. I guess it has to do with his body. He was a very tall man, around 7 feet tall. I guess his heart was unable to support his body.
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redrumloa wrote:
[color=CC3300]NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/color]
Wow, this is aweful news.. :-(
This is just sh*te, I've only known about Quorthon/Bathory for about 6 months, and I loved what I heard.
R.i.P. Quarthon
/me trundles off to a depressed stupor listening to Blood on Ice :cry:
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/me trundles off to a depressed stupor listening to Blood on Ice :cry:
The Nordic style music he did was o-k in my book, but the early straight thrash/black metal he did is what I really, really liked. Find a copy of 'The Return' or 'Under the sign of the black mark' and crank it loud.
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redrumloa wrote:
Find a copy of 'The Return' or 'Under the sign of the black mark' and crank it loud.
I've been thinking about getting all of his stuff for a wee while now, I'll start there :-)
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@Vincent
To make your shopping easier..
Bathory (1984)
(http://www.anus.com/metal/images/bathory1.jpg)Tracklist:
1. Storm of Damnation (Intro) (3:07)
2. Hades (2:45)
3. Reaper (2:44)
4. Necromansy (3:41)
5. Sacrifice (3:17)
6. In Conspiracy With Satan (2:29)
7. Armageddon (2:32)
8. Raise the Dead (3:42)
9. War (2:15)
10. Outro (0:23)
Length: 26:57
The Return... (1985)
(http://www.anus.com/metal/images/bathory2.jpg)Tracklist:
1. Revelation of Doom (3:27)
2. Total Destruction (3:51)
3. Born for Burning (5:14)
4. The Wind of Mayhem (3:13)
5. Bestial Lust (2:42)
6. Possessed (2:42)
7. The Rite of Darkness (2:06)
8. Reap of Evil (3:29)
9. Son of the Damned (2:48)
10. Sadist (3:00)
11. The Return of the Darkness and Evil (3:49)
12. Outro (0:26)
Length: 36:49
Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1986)
(http://www.anus.com/metal/images/bathory3.jpg)Tracklist:
1. Nocturnal Obeisance
2. Massacre
3. Woman of dark desires
4. Call from the grave
5. Equimanthorn
6. Enter the Eternal Fire
7. Chariots of fire
8. 13 Candles of doom
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Cheers for that, although I won't be buying any albums with the dates you've got there - hopefully the ones I get will be 2003...
All digitally remastered from the originals by Quarthon himself :-)
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LOS ANGELES, California/NEW YORK (Billboard) -- Guitarist Robert Quine, one of punk rock's most daring soloists, was found dead Saturday in his New York apartment. He was 61.
According to close friend and guitar maker Rick Kelly, who discovered Quine's body, the musician died of a heroin overdose Memorial Day weekend. He had been despondent over the recent death of his wife.
Born in Akron, Ohio, Quine was heavily influenced by the Velvet Underground, whose music he recorded obsessively while living in San Francisco. He moved to New York in 1971 and became the lead guitarist for bassist Richard Hell's important group the Voidoids, with whom he recorded two albums. His skittering, unpredictable work with Hell defined the possibilities of punk guitar.
During the '80s, he recorded and toured frequently with Lou Reed and played on saxophonist/composer John Zorn's best-known albums. Quine made key guest appearances on Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs" (1985) and Marianne Faithfull's "Strange Weather" (1987). In 1989, he began a long association with Matthew Sweet; he also worked regularly with Lloyd Cole.
In 2001, Universal released a three-CD box of Quine's live 1969 recordings of the Velvet Underground, "The Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes."
"Robert Quine was a magnificent guitar player -- an original and innovative tyro of the vintage beast," Reed said in a statement released to Billboard.com. "He was an extraordinary mixture of taste, intelligence and rock'n'roll abilities coupled with major technique and a scholar's memory for every decent guitar lick ever played under the musical son. He made tapes for me for which I am eternally grateful -- tapes of the juiciest parts of solos from players long gone.
"Quine was smarter than them all. And the proof is in the recordings, some of which happily are mine. If you can find more interesting sounds and musical clusters than Quine on 'Waves of Fear' (from Reed's 1982 album "The Blue Mask"), well, it's probably something else by Robert."
"He was a marvelous guitarist, a soulful music lover with high standards and had an eviscerating wit," Patti Smith Band drummer Jay Dee Daugherty told Billboard.com. "He did not suffer fools gladly, but made up for it with a thinly disguised generosity of spirit."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Mus...reut/index.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~stayclean/quine.html
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That's sad too...
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Hoya!
I have never heard Bathory, just know it by name. It was the name of a countess who used to bathe in virgins' blood...
Funny that a leader of the black metal scene was "friendly"!
From what I have heard/read, most of them are big heads, considering the rest to be crap...
And no, I am not even talking about NSBM...
@redrumloa
Actually, I have though this for quite a long time now but since we are talking about it...
How can a proud Republican like you listen to metal??? Originally, it is a highly subversive, nihilistic, on-the-verge-of-anarchy music. Not really the kind of soundtrack for a Reagan Western... ;-)
Be funky
M A D
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How can a proud Republican like you listen to metal??? Originally, it is a highly subversive, nihilistic, on-the-verge-of-anarchy music. Not really the kind of soundtrack for a Reagan Western... ;-)
Haha, not the first time I've been asked this. I've got just one thing to say.
The PMRC was run by democrats.
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I remember the PMRC, they tried to ban W.A.S.P. and Alice Cooper, bunch of ingreats :-P
One reason I didn't like Al Gore was because of Tipper's association with them :-x
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Hoya!
@redrumloa
Oh yes, indeed! :-)
After Tipper Gore's daughter was offered Prince's Purple Rain for her birthday, she asked a mum the meaning of an unknown word: "masturbate"... They then decided that rock WAS evil...
Besides, Frank Zappa fought those bunch of spazzes and won. Listen to his album entitled FZ Meets the Mothers of Prevention.
Be funky
M A D
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oi!
Ray Charles, gone!
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Aw sh*t...
:-(
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Hoya!
The Genius!!! Seeing great musicians dying sucks big time...
Be funky, Ray :-(
M A D
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Van_M wrote:
As Blabbermouth (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net) reports, Quorthon, the leader of the metal "band" Bathory was found dead in his appartment at Stockholm on Monday.
I love that 'band' is in quotes.
:-D
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@Wain
Hehe :-)
The official Bathory (http://www.bathory.se/) site has been updated with a tribute page (with a sample of Hammerheart), then the original page (click the photo), then onto the site itself.
Nothing else on the site has changed, nothing about the cause or circumstances yet.
The site is dog slow just now, so you might want to try it later on.
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Bathory was not a real band since he was the only member.
Actually to this day it is still somewhat of a mystery. There is a new statement from another band member.
Founding BATHORY Member: 'QUORTHON Had Much More To Offer' - June 9,
2004
Legendary video director and founding BATHORY member Jonas Åkerlund
has spoken to Sweden's Expressen newspaper about the passing of
BATHORY mastermind Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg from what is believed to
be heart failure. Forsberg, who was known to have been battling heart
problems for years, was found dead in his apartment in Stockholm,
Sweden on Monday (June 7). He was 39 years old.
"It's so sad. He had much more to offer," Åkerlund said.
Jonas, who formed the band with Forsberg in the early '80s, went on to
have a successful video-directing career, having worked with the likes
of METALLICA, PRODIGY, MADONNA and U2.
"[BATHORY came onto the scene] extremely early," Åkerlund said.
"People like Marilyn Manson, Billy Corgan and the members of METALLICA
have all come up to me and have told me that they listened to
BATHORY."
According to Åkerlund, it was Thomas Forsberg's creativity that made
the band such an influence on so many younger metal acts.
"[Quorthon] had a high cult status," Jonas said. "He wasn't interested
in attention, he just wanted to play his music."
Jonas Åkerlund? Founding member? Huh? It was also my understanding that Quorthon was the only member, but then like now was full of conflicting information. Much of it from Quorthon's himself. One things for certain. Quorthon didn't want to be in the public eye and liked to stay as mysterious as possible. Even after his death the details are sketchy at best.
Heck I've even heard rumors that Bathory even played a few shows live in Europe. Anyone here confirm that?
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In Bathory, I think it was just Jonas and Quorthon as the main members at the start. Session (I don't know if that's the right word for this - I do know about session musicians, but I don't know if they were or not) musicians or part timers would have been the other members. Just think of Nine Inch Nails - that's just Trent really, but others play on the albums.
Quorthon's stuff released as the band/person Quorthon was just himself though.
That's what I can gather from it all, but it is a bit of a mystery.
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I just refound this thread looking for something else...
I was just speaking to a mate about Quorthon and we both realised that it's almost a year since he left.
After re-reading this thread I thought I'd make a wee attempt at clearing up the "band" situation :-)
From the official site ( www.bathory.se ) they have a history archive that charts the band from the very start right up until just before Blood Fire Death.
In the first chapter:
It was at 1300 hours Wednesday the 16th of March 1983 that the three young men who would make up the first BATHORY line-up, met up outside Musikbörsen, a local music store in Kungsholmen a western borough to central Stockholm.
Ads had been tacked on musicians wanted-boards in music stores and record shops around down town Stockholm by then 17-year old Västerort residing Quorthon. The ads called for members in order to form a band "...in the Exploited, GBH, Motörhead and Black Sabbath style...".
Responding to the ad were 18 year old drummer Jonas a.k.a. Vans McBurger, and 18 year old bass player Fredrick - Freddan hereafter - a.k.a. Hanoi, both residing in Nockeby Western Stockholm.
For the next 13 months, this trio would make up the infant stage of an act that would eventually not only be reserved an honorary place in the history of extreme metal, but also considered pioneers and masters alike.
So they were the first members of the band and it was a band, not a "band" at the start ;-)
I'll try to dig out more info and make a family tree kinda thing this week.