Quorthon dead at 39

[MAD]

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

[cecilia]

oi!
Ray Charles, gone!
 :-(

[Vincent]

Aw sh*t...

:-(

[MAD]

Hoya!

The Genius!!! Seeing great musicians dying sucks big time...

Be funky, Ray :-(

M A D

[Wain]

Van_M wrote:
As Blabbermouth 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

[Vincent]

@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.

[redrumloa]

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?

[Vincent]

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.

[Vincent]

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.