i dunno my opinion of this was always A Fine Day to Die and the title track were head and shoulders above anything else

first album was pretty good, dunno if I've ever heard UTSOTBM

listening now to jog my memory

Album Rating: 4.5

First 6 Bathory albums are all essential listening

aaaand i'm done with the playthrough

and this is still great, title track is incredible

Album Rating: 4.5

well wouldn't you know that I downloaded the discog last week. Haven't listened to much outside of the first two so now's my chance

Extreme metal as such is about aggressive expression. Octagon is basically the embodiment of that
thesis and yet ironically most people dismiss it as horrible and disgusting. Each to his own I suppose
but I've always regarded Octagon as a bit misunderstood. The songs aren't really all that bad
either but I suppose that just comes with the horn effect.

Album Rating: 5.0

damn, amazing album. bm is prob gonna be my new addiction soon

so pure

"i dunno my opinion of this was always A Fine Day to Die and the title track were head and shoulders above anything else"

then you're missing out on some seriously hard thrash my friend

the intro to this album kills

probably the hardest thrash ever

isn't it considered more black metal than thrash? either way so fucking good

best bm i've heard then

nah it thrashes hard as fuck

i dont give a fuck what its "considered"

definitely black metal elements though too and not just in the vocals

oh im not arguing that at all, black thrash is still thrash

Album Rating: 5.0

but isn't first wave bm still bm?

you guys are missing the point, besides in the 80s things were far less classified, some people even referred to this and UTSOTBM as death metal, terms were much more interchangeable back then. let the music speak for itself, don't let a genre tag think for you

that being said, bathory's first 3 albums imo have much more black metal feeling than this and the next 2 hardly contain any traces of it

Album Rating: 5.0

I judge this based on how much I like it, which is a lot. I'm just curious what things are usually classified as. but yeah I can feel the thrash in it