Incredibly, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Bathory’s seminal Under the Sign of the Black Mark. Bathory first burst into the consciousness of the metal underground in 1984. The ...

As the lights go out on next year’s Beyond The Gates Festival in Bergen, Norway, a special remembrance of one of black metal’s more influential artists will take center stage. About two decades after ...

No Clean Singing posted the below, which compares Whitney Houston to Quorthon from Bathory, and basically wonders aloud why the media got all in a tizzy over Houston’s death, but didn’t give two poops ...

Throughout Bathory 's active time in metal, all of the music was written and recorded by Quorthon. There were a few years during the eighties where Quorthon had additional members of Bathory. Numerous ...

Tomas "Ace" Börje Forsberg, better known as Quorthon, was the man behind the legendary Bathory. In his illustrious career, spanning two decades, Quorthon created four albums that would become the ...

Hail Quorthon!" JB Christofferson, Grand Magus “To me Under The Sign Of The Black Mark is the definitive black metal album. It epitomises the term in every aspect and Quorthon was doing things in ...