YMMV / Bathory

• Awesome Moments: The music video for "One Rode To Asa Bay". Not only did Quorthon pay out of his own pocket to make it, it to this day holds the record for the longest video to have ever aired on MTV.
• Awesome Music: Lots, but most Bathory fans will agree that two of their most standout individual songs are "A Fine Day To Die" and "One Rode to Asa Bay", as they respectively showcase the raw, heavy side of the band's output and their more brooding, epic side very prominently.
• Creator Worship: Quorthon is pretty much universally loved in the metal community, and tribute was paid to him by fans and fellow musicians from all across its breadth when he passed in 2004. It helped that, despite his mysterious and borderline legendary image, he was a very nice and down-to-earth person in reality who also strongly opposed the more murderous and bigoted tendencies of the later Scandinavian black metal scene.
• Epic Riff: So goddamn many, but the epic opening and triumphant bridge of "A Fine Day to Die" rank among the best.
  • And don't forget "Necromancy".
• Evil Is Cool: The band's early Satanic-themed image heavily invoked this alongside shades of Satan Is Good.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Venom. Mostly over which band truly invented Black Metal.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Being the Bizarro Episodes of Bathory's discography, many fans discount Requiem and Octagon. Destroyer of Worlds is also something of a black sheep in the catalog, but being somewhat closer to the band's "real" sound, it has more defenders.
• Narm: It's hard not to chuckle at the "neener-neener-neener" snippet in the intro to "Pace 'Till Death". The lyrics are kinda silly too: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fastest of 'em all!"

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