Hammerheart
Sign in to saveHammerheart is the fifth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. Regarded one of the band's most progressive works, it continued the previous album Blood Fire Death's transition away from black metal to what became recognized as Viking metal, and is considered a cornerstone work of the genre. A music video was made for "One Rode to Asa Bay."
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Hammerheart is perhaps the most expressive Slovakian heavy metal band of these days, which is proud to present itself to NWOBHM from the very beginning. The band was set up in August 1994 by, at that time, scholarly and to the common society non-conforming rockers Denis Beláčik and Mark Estočin, who were able to put the first complete line-up together only as soon as in May 1995. Jan Šintaj took the bass guitar and the drums were taken care of by Martin Bartánus. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Key facts
- Album.name
- Hammerheart
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Bathory
- Album.cover
- Hammerheart.jpg
- Album.released
- 23 April 1990
- Album.recorded
- June – August 1989
- Album.studio
- Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm, Sweden
- Album.genre
- Viking metal
- Album.length
- 55:46
- Album.label
- Noise
- Album.producer
- Boss Forsberg and Quorthon
- Album.prev_title
- Blood Fire Death
- Album.prev_year
- 1988
Key dates
- Published
- 1990
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- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- viking metal
- Performer
- Bathory
- Record label
- Noise Records
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Hammerheart is the fifth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. Regarded one of the band's most progressive works, it continued the previous album Blood Fire Death's transition away from black metal to what became recognized as Viking metal, and is considered a cornerstone work of the genre. A music video was made for "One Rode to Asa Bay."
==Background and composition== Quorthon dedicated the song "One Rode to Asa Bay", about the Christianization of Scandinavia, to C. Dean Andersson, who had earlier sent some of his books to Quorthon. The village's name in the song, Asa Bay, comes from the pseudonym Asa Drake which Andersson used in some of his books.