Bathory - Blood Fire Death Nails and a year later was

and a year later was awarded with the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm

released in September 1972

It was recorded in the midst of litigation with their former manager Patrick Meehan

Digitally remastered edition of the original UK version of the British quartet's 1977 debut album

Fearless Records in 2014

Bathory - Blood Fire Death Nails and a year later wasBlood Fire Death album for sale by Bathory was released Aug 26, 1994 on the Kraze Records label. Possibly the first true example of what is commonly called Viking metal, 1988's Blood Fire Death inaugurated an incredibly prolific period in Bathory's history so prolific and creative, in fact, that an entire album's worth of material recorded at this time would be shelved for years before eventually finding room for release as 1996's Blood on Ice.