Quorthon dead at 39

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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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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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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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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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Aw sh*t...

:-(

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@Wain

Hehe :-)

The official Bathory 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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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.