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The eleventh Australian and tenth internationally released full-length studio album by the legendary Australian Hard’n’Heavy band.
"Blow Up Your Video" turned out to be band's most successful album since 1981's "For Those About To Rock", even though it was chock full of filler. The driving album opener, "Heatseeker", turned out to be a surprising Top Ten single in the U.K., while the anthemic "That's the Way I Want to Rock n' Roll" proved to be another highlight (video clips were filmed for both songs, as well). But from there on (with the exception of "Kissin' Dynamite" and "This Means War"), it gets pretty unfocused. The album is glutted with such throwaways as "Nick of Time", "Ruff Stuff" and "Two's Up" - completely missing the point of what made such previous albums as "Back In Black" so great (they simply did not contain a weak moment). "Blow Up Your Video" also marked the return of AC/DC's early production team, Harry Vanda and George Young, who man the boards for the first time since 1978's "If You Want Blood".
This was the final studio album to feature drummer Simon Wright. Although he wrote all the lyrics on the album, it would be the last on which Brian Johnson was credited as a songwriter (all songs on subsequent albums were written by the Young brothers).
The album was the band's biggest-selling album of new material since “For Those About to Rock We Salute You”, being certified Platinum in the US. “Blow Up Your Video” reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 12 in the US. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental in 1989, but lost to Jethro Tull's “Crest of a Knave”.
Released with a black polylined inner sleeve.
Atlantic Recording Corporation/WEA Records Ltd., 1988 (7 81828-1 | WX 144). Made in Germany. First press. OIS. Used (cover/disc): EX+/EX+.


Tracklist:

SIDE ONE
1. Heatseeker 03:50
2. That's The Way I Wanna Rock N Roll 03:45
3. Meanstreak 04:10
4. Go Zone 04:27
5. Kissin' Dynamite 03:58

SIDE TWO
6. Nick Of Time 04:16
7. Some Sin For Nuthin' 04:11
8. Ruff Stuff 04:28
9. Two's Up 05:20
10. This Means War 04:21
Total playing time: 42:46 min.

The eighth Australian and seventh international full-length studio album by the legendary Australian Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
Recorded in Paris, France, “For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)” was the third and final album produced for the band by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The name of the album was inspired by a book Angus Young read, entitled “For Those About to Die, We Salute You”, about Roman gladiators. The album was a follow-up to their highly successful album “Back in Black”. While "Back In Black" was infused with the energy and spirit of paying tribute to Bon Scott, it became apparent on the follow-up that the band really did miss Scott more than it initially indicated. Brian Johnson's lyrics started to seem more calculated and a bit clichéd, lacking Scott's devil-may-care sense of humor. And the band itself slowed down the tempo frequently, sounding less aggressive and inspired.
On "For Those About to Rock We Salute You", the case for the band's talents is finally made with undeniable force and clarity. You want anthems? Here, they abound, from the title track's avalanche attack — complete with booming cannonades, of course — to "Night of the Long Knives". All ten tunes are aimed straight at the band's testosterone-plagued audience, but the music and lyrics transcend mere calculation. This marginally broader lyrical outlook may again be attributable to Brian Johnson, who writes the songs with band-leader-guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young.
“For Those About To Rock” has sold over 4.000.000 copies in the US. It would be AC/DC's first and only No.1 album in the US Billboard chart until the release of “Black Ice” in October 2008. In Australia, the album peaked at No. 3 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. The album has sold an estimated 7.000.000 copies worldwide, making it one of the highest sold AC/DC albums worldwide. In their original 1981 review, Rolling Stone Magazine declared it to be their best album.
Atlantic Recording Corporation, 1981 (ATL K 50 851 (SD 19111)). Made in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): VG+/EX.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) 5:44
2. Put The Finger On You 3:26
3. Let's Get It Up 3:54
4. Inject The Venom 3:31
5. Snowballed 3:23

Side 2
6. Evil Walks 4:24
7. C.O.D. 3:19
8. Breaking The Rules 4:23
9. Night Of The Long Knives 3:26
10. Spellbound 4:30

Total playing time: 40:00 min.

First compilation album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
“Best Of Accept” is a compilation with the songs from band’s earliest four albums, namely "Accept", "I'm A Rebel", "Breaker", and "Restless And Wild".
Only spanning Accept's early years, this collection omits important songs from the German band's peak years! A must for every Accept collector!!
Metronome Music GmbH, 1983 (811 994-1 ME). Made in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): EX/EX.

Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Burning 5:15
2. Restless And Wild 4:10
3. Son Of A Bitch 3:55
4. Breaker 3:35
5. Do It 4:11

Side 2
6. I'm A Rebel 3:57
7. China Lady 3:56
8. No Time To Lose 4:35
9. Princess Of The Dawn 6:15
10. Lady Lou 3:03
Total playing time: 42:52
 

Samples: https://www.last.fm

The second compilation album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
Only spanning Accept's early years, this collection omits important songs from the German band's peak years!
A must for every Accept fan and collector!!
PVC Records, 1983 (PVC 8915). Made in USA. First press. Used (cover/disc): EX+/EX.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Breaker 3:35
2. Helldriver 2:40
3. Lady Lou 3:03
4. China Lady 3:56
5. That's Rock'n'roll 2:53
6. Son Of A Bitch 3:55

Side 2
1. I'm A Rebel 3:57
2. Midnight Higway 3:58
3. Tired Of Me 3:44
4. The King 4:10
5. Burning 5:15

Total playing time: 41:06 min.

The seventh full-length album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
This was the last Accept album to feature Udo Dirkschneider as lead vocalist until the 1993 reunion album “Objection Overruled”.
The album returns Accept to the darker, heavier sound prior to the more commercial-sounding predecessor “Metal Heart”.
By the time, they reconvened to record "Russian Roulette", creative differences were beginning to tear German Metal stars Accept apart at the seams. While guitarist Wolf Hoffman wanted to continue pursuing the commercial Metal formula first explored with the previous year's "Metal Heart", vocalist Udo Dirkschneider defended a return to the harder-edged approach that had characterized the band's uncompromising breakout releases "Restless And Wild" and "Balls To The Wall".
RCA Schallplatten GmbH, 1986 (PL70972). Made in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM/EX.


Tracklist:

Side One:
1. T.V. War 03:27
2. Monsterman 03:00
3. Russian Roulette 05:13
4. It's Hard To Find A Way 04:00
5. Aiming High 04:03

Side Two:
1. Heaven Is Hell 07:12
2. Another Second To Be 03:15
3. Walking In The Shadows 04:24
4. Man Enough To Cry 03:20
5. Stand Tight 04:00

Total playing time: 41:54 min.

The fifth full-length studio album by legendary American Hard Rock/Blues Rock band.
The last Aerosmith album for eight years to feature Joe Perry for the entire recording (he left halfway through the recording of their next album, "Night in the Ruts").
It was recorded in an abandoned convent near New York City. The portrait of the band on the album cover was drawn by the celebrity caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
As the band began recording "Draw The Line", their excessive lifestyle, combined with constant touring and drug use, began to take its toll. Although the LP would sell well more than a million copies in fewer than six weeks after its release, in 2014 Perry would refer to it as "the beginning of the end" and "the decay of our artistry". It marks the band's first slowdown in album sales of their 1970s era, after their initial rise with the albums "Toys In The Attic" and "Rocks". The album was less successful than their previous albums, selling only 2 million copies ("Toys In The Attic" sold 8 million, "Rocks" sold 4 million).
Kerrang! Magazine listed the album at No. 37 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time" for its "high energy", although it never touches Heavy Metal as a genre, concluding with the comment "sleaze was never so classy".
"Draw The Line" went Platinum in its first month of release, entering the music charts on December 24, 1977, peaking at No. 11 on the US Billboard 200, and eventually being certified 2x multi-Platinum nearly a decade later.
CBS Records, 1977 (466729 1). Made in Holland. Used (cover/disc): EX/EX.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Draw The Line 3:21
2. I Wanna Know Why 3:08
3. Critical Mass 4:50
4. Get It Up 4:01
5. Bright Light Fright 2:18

Side 2
6. Kings And Queens 4:54
7. The Hand That Feeds 4:22
8. Sight For Sore Eyes 3:51
9. Milk Cow Blues 4:10

Total playing time: 34:55 min.

The ninth full-length studio album by legendary American Hard Rock/Blues Rock band.
The album marks a turning point in the band's career. It is their first album to employ professional songwriters, instead of featuring material solely composed by members of the band. This came as a suggestion of executive John Kalodner, who also pushed the band to work with producer Bruce Fairbairn, who remained with them for another two albums. It was also the first Aerosmith album to be promoted by Heavy Music Video airplay on MTV.
Though "Done With Mirrors" was intended to mark Aerosmith's comeback, "Permanent Vacation" is often considered their true comeback album, as it was the band's first truly popular album since their reunion.
The album features cover of "I'm Down", a piano-driven Beatles song that appeared as a b-side to their single "Help" in 1965. This was Aerosmith's second commercially released Beatles cover, after "Come Together". "Rag Doll", "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" and "Angel" all became major hit singles (all three songs charted in the Top 20) and helped "Permanent Vacation" become the band's most successful album in a decade.
Permanent Vacation has sold over 5000000 copies in the U.S.
In the UK, it was the first Aerosmith album to attain both Silver (60000 units sold) and Gold (100000 units sold) certification by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving these in July 1989 and March 1990 respectively.
CD comes with OBI.
The David Geffen Company/Victor Musical Industries, Inc., 1987 (MVCG-10 / GEF-D-24162). Made in Japan. First press. Used: like new.


Tracklist:
1. Heart's Done Time 4:42
2. Magic Touch 4:37
3. Rag Doll 4:24
4. Simoriah 3:21
5. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) 4:25
6. St. John 4:10
7. Hangman Jury 5:31
8. Girl Keeps Coming Apart 4:13
9. Angel 5:09
10. Permanent Vacation 4:48
11. I'm Down 2:19
12. The Movie 3:59
Total playing time: 51:38


Samples: http://www.last.fm/music/Aerosmith

The second full-length studio album by cult British Hard Rock band.
Alaska was founded and led by former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden. After the first album release, band toured Europe as the opening act for Manowar. On their debut album, Alaska had their own identify - Guitar Rock with heavy synthesizer.
With their second and final album, Bernie Marsden’s Alaska sounding ever more like Whitesnake.
So, this is a worthy album for fans of Marsden and Whitesnake, as well as all AOR lovers in general!
Bronze Records Ltd./Island Records, Inc., 1985 (7 90272-1). Made in USA. First press. Cover: EX+. Disc: M. Still factory sealed.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. I Really Want To Know 6:12
2. The Thing 5:00
3. Where Did They Go (Boneville Blues) 4:39
4. Help Yourself 4:22
5. Run With The Pack 3:48

Side Two
6. Miss You Tonight 4:15
7. Woman Like You 3:34
8. Schoolgirl 5:05
9. S.O.S. 5:24

Total playing time: 42:19 min.

The eighteenth full-length studio album by the legendary American Hard Rock/Glam Metal singer and his band.
“Trash” became one of Cooper's biggest albums, featuring "Poison", Cooper's first top ten hit since his Single "You And Me" in 1977. A successful year-long worldwide concert tour in support of the album was documented in the home video release “Alice Cooper Trashes The World”. 
The album features many guest performances including Jon Bon Jovi, Stiv Bators, Steven Tyler, as well as singer/guitarist Kane Roberts, who left Cooper's band in 1988. Songwriting contributions were also made by Joan Jett, Diane Warren, Jon Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora.
Probably, the best Cooper’s album and one of the best albums in Hard Rock/Heavy Metal history.
Epic Records/CBS Records, 1989 (465130 2). Made in Austria. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM/NM.


Tracklist:
1. Poison 04:29
2. Spark In The Dark 03:52
3. House Of Fire 03:47
4. Why Trust You 03:12
5. Only My Heart Talkin' 04:47
6. Bed Of Nails 04:20
7. This Maniacs' In Love With You 03:48
8. Trash 04:01
9. Hell Is Living Without You 04:11
10. I'm Your Gun 03:47
Total playing time: 40:14 min.

The fifteenth full-length studio album by legendary Russian Alternative Rock/Hard Rock band.
Collector's Edition Digibook with 60-page booklet.
CD-Maximum, 2008 (CDM 1107-2775/d). Made in Russia. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM/NM.


Tracklist:
1. Солнце на блюдце 5:38
2. А тут 3:46
3. Власть 4:02
4. Пересмотри 3:29
5. Вот так 4:28
6. Апрель 4:31
7. Горько 5:06
8. Рикошет 3:36
9. Что потом 5:08
10. Пересуды 5:06
11. Всё, что я хочу 3:58
12. Стать песней 3:23
Total playing time: 52:13 min.

The seventh single by legendary German Disco band.
Metronome Musik GmbH, 1980 (0030.353). Made in Germany. First press. 45 PRM. Used (cover/disc): EX+/NM.


Tracklist:

Side 1
Marigot Bay 3:50

Side 2
Hey, Catch On 3:20

Total playing time: 7:14 min.

The fourth video-album by legendary Russian Heavy Metal band.
This performance was the culmination of a large-scale Hero of Highway: 20 Years Tour, dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the legendary album. The material was filmed at the final concert of the tour, which took place on April 3 at the Luzhniki Sports Complex.
Valery Kipelov and Sergei Mavrin took the stage together with their former colleagues. So, this release is not just a "jubilee" concert of a great band, but an opportunity to become the owner of an exclusive certificate of a truly unique event!
Rare musthave for every fan of the band!
Limited Edition Double DVD Digibook with 20-page booklet.
CD-Maximum, 2008 (CDM DVD 104 / DVD 105). Made in Russia. First press. Used (cover/DVD 1/DVD 2): NM/NM/NM. Autographed by Mikhail Zhitnyakov and Maxim Udalov, November 10, 2011, Ternopil, Ukraine.


Tracklist:

DVD 1
1. Интро / Intro
2. Последний закат / Poslednii Zakat
3. Раскачаем этот мир / Raskachaem Etot Mir
4. Колизей / Kolizei
5. Меченый злом / Mechenyi Zlom
6. Крещение огнём / Kreschenie Ognem
7. Антихрист / Antihrist
8. Осколок льда / Oskolok L'da
9. Кровь Королей / Krov' Korolei
10. На службе силы зла / Na Sluzhbe Sily Zla
11. Герой асфальта / Geroi Asfal'ta
12. Мертвая зона / Mertvaya Zona
13. 1100
14. Улица роз / Ulitsa Roz
15. Баллада о древнерусском воине / Ballada O Drevnerusskom Voine
16. Игра с огнем / Igra S Ognem
17. Штиль / Shtil'

DVD 2
1. История создания альбома. Рассказ участников группы (интервью с использованием редких видеоматериалов, включая фрагменты концерта Арии 1987-88, с программой «Герой Асфальта»)
2. Фотографии с концерта 03.04.08 Герой Асфальта 20 Лет (подготовка и закулисные материалы юбилейного концерта, включая материалы Маргариты Пушкиной)
3. Видео из Архива группы. Концерт в г. Ставрополь 23.03.88г.:
     1. Герой Асфальта / Geroi Asfal'ta
     2. Улица роз / Ulitsa Roz
     3. Дай руку мне / Dai Ruku Mnie

Japanese Edition of the debut full-length album by American Neo-Classical/Progressive Metal band.
Artension was the brainchild of Shrapnel Records head Mike Varney. He received a demo from wunderkind keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij (Transiberian Orchestra) and Swiss Progressive guitarist Roger Staffelbach of a project they called Atlantis Rising. Varney began to look for other musicians to round out the lineup. After a lot of consideration, Varney presented Vitalij and Roger with vocalist John West (Royal Hunt), bassist Kevin Chown, and drummer Mike Terrana. The result was a band called Artension (named by the band for a combination of the words "art" and "tension") and a CD called "Into The Eye Of The Storm".
Mike Terrana is a much more technical drummer than drummer on their middle two albums, so that may seem like a positive for some people. Incredible vocals by John West helped to create a Progressive Metal sound, inspired by bands such as Rainbow and Dream Theater, which complemented the wailing solo trade-offs between guitar and keyboards. Instead of the songs being structured as standard Progressive Metal, there are a wider array of songs than usual.
If you are a fan of unique Progressive Metal, Power Metal, or even some lighter Metal, this is a good place to start a collection. Although most Artension albums focus on the keyboards, which most people hate, this album really is more guitar, bass and drum oriented. Really very good album!!
Shrapnel Records/Roadrunner Records, 1996 (RRCY-1028). Made in Japan. First press. With OBI.


Tracklist:
1. World Of Illusion 5:31
2. Into The Eye Of The Storm 4:36
3. Smoke And Fire 5:12
4. The Wind And The Rain 6:14
5. Lost Memory 6:00
6. The Key 6:35 
7. Song Of The Desert 3:34 
8. Red's Recovery 7:05
9. Let It Ride 5:06
10. I Don't Care 2:28
Total playing time: 52:37


Samples:  http://www.allmusic.com
http://shrapnelrecords.com

Debut mini-album by the German Melodic Black/Thrash Metal band.
The German Black Metal underground has not exactly covered itself with glory lately. Also Atanatos not much about it, but here is a lot of potential, which bodes well for the future. It starts with the truly felicitous booklet and leads to solid workmanlike music.
The spectrum of the five songs ranging from powerful, melodic parts of the guitars, accompanied by melodious keyboards, to fast, groovy thrashing drums. The very varied styled melodies are accompanied by a guttural singing. Almost ingenious and very varied five compositions!
Recommended for fans of: Dimmu Borgir, Amorphis, Crematory, Dr. Faustus and Emperor!!
Last Epitaph Productions, 1997 (LEP 015). Made in Germany. First press. Used: very good.


Tracklist:
1. Prelude - Under The Black Sky     1:39 
2. Whore Of Revelation     5:23 
3. Behind The Darkest Woods     4:56 
4. Journey Through The Spiritual Past     5:03 
5. Eternal Escape - Under The Black Sky     5:48
Total playing time: 22:49

The first mini-album by legendary German Gothic Death Metal band.
“Calling The Rain” is the band’s first Ethnically influenced and mostly acoustic record. Band leader and singer Alexander Krull is supported by his own sister Yasmin Krull on the vocals and on a couple of flutes.
This is incredible fantastic album and must for every Metal and Ethno lover!!
Swanlake Records/Massacre Records, 1995 (MASS CD 071). Made in Austria. Pressed in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM-/NM-.


Tracklist:
1. Calling The Rain (Video-Edit) 4:18
2. Back From Eternity 3:21
3. Departure 2:12
4. Land Beyond The Forest (New Version) 3:15
5. Migrants' Shade 5:59
6. Die Geburt Eines Baumes 1:59
7. Calling The Rain (Remix) 5:40
8. Ancient Sadness 10:17

The debut full-length album by cult American Glam Metal band.
The album featured their signature song, "Turn Up the Radio", and their other minor hit, "Send Her to Me", both of which had accompanying videos.
"Turn Up the Radio" was featured in a variety of media in the coming decades and is regarded as an '80s Metal staple. "Turn Up the Radio" was featured in "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" and "All I'm Gonna Take" was featured in "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories" games respectively.
According to lead guitarist Steve Lynch, the album took 30 days to record and master: "We were seasoned musicians in the studio so worked very fast and were always well-prepared". He also noted that its major hit, "Turn Up the Radio", was recorded at the tail end of the "Sign In Please" sessions and that RCA didn't find it suitable enough for inclusion. However, after stern insistence, the band was able to get it on the album. Neither party, however, expected it to gain such critical success that led to the album's Gold status in 1985.
RCA Records, 1984 (PL 89495). Made in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): EX+/EX+.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Send Her To Me 3:54
2. Turn Up The Radio 3:58
3. Night Teen & Non - Stop 4:15
4. Cloud 10 3:33
5. Deep End 4:14

Side 2
6. My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Isn't Me 3:31
7. Thrill Of Love 3:56
8. Friday 4:10
9. In The Night    3:53
10. All I'm Gonna Take 5:41

Total playing time: 41:05 min.



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The debut full-length studio album by legendary German Melodic Heavy Metal band.
In the 1980s, Germany was a hotbed of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock action - it was Germany that gave fans the Scorpions, Accept and Warlock. Germany was also the home of Axxis, who was never as big as the Scorpions or Accept, but made some decent contributions to the Metal/Hard Rock field.
It was a much different time in 1989, when Axxis burst onto the scene with their debut "Kingdom Of The Night". The Heavy Metal scene was ruled by bands such as The Scorpions, Poison and a host of others that filled the airways with a much more radio friendly guitar oriented Rock that was based on catchy hooks and anthem like choruses. Axxis is one of the bands that jumped on this bandwagon and have yet to get off!
This disc, which was the best-selling debut album in Germany at the time, is filled with all the quintessential trappings you would expect from this kind of band. From the album' openers, "Living In A World" and "Kingdom Of The Night", you get the obligatory fiery anthem like Metal that will have the fist pumping and the crowd singing along with the refrain! Lead singer Bernhard Weiss is given the chance to show the right amount of angst with not one, but two mandatory power ballads with "Fire And Ice" and "Tears Of The Trees".
Guitar work of Weiss and Walter Pietsch is very good throughout the album, and the vocals of Bernhard is as very good too.
"Kingdom Of The Night" is decent and respectable album. It is easy to see why this album did so well. It gives people just what they want without having to delve to deep. This album will bring back memories of music that was less complicated and unpretentious. It was just Rock And Roll!
Vinyl comes with printed inner sleeve with lyrics and photos.
EMI Electrola GmbH, 1989 (1C 064 7 91829 1 DMM). Made in Germany. First press. 


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Living In A World 3:50
2. Kingdom Of The Night 3:50
3. Never Say Ever 3:40
4. Fire And Ice 3:59
5. Young Souls 3:14

Side Two
1. For A Song 4:03
2. Love Is Like An Ocean 3:23
3. The Moon 3:38
4. Tears Of The Trees 4:07
5. Just One Night 3:12
6. Kings Made Of Steel 3:29

Total playing time: 40:25 min.

The second Single by legendary German Euro-Disco/Synth-Pop band.
The Single was a hit across Europe, reaching number 8 in West Germany, number 1 in Austria and number 2 in Switzerland.
Coconut, 1985 (601 673-213). Made in Germany. First press. 45 PRM. Used (cover/disc): EX/VG+.


Tracklist:

Side 1
You're a Woman" (Long Version) 5:57

Side 2
You're a Woman" (Instrumental) 3:49

Total playing time: 9:50 min.

The debut full-length studio album by legendary Swedish Black/Thrash Metal band.
One of the contenders for the first Black Metal record!
Bathory was formed in 1983. The band's frontman, Quorthon, worked part-time at the small record label Tyfon. In late 1983 and early 1984, the label was putting together a compilation of songs by Scandinavian Metal bands. However, at the last minute, one of the bands backed out. Tyfon agreed to let Bathory appear on the record as a replacement, and the band recorded two songs for the compilation ("Sacrifice" and "The Return of the Darkness and Evil") in January. The album, "Scandinavian Metal Attack", was released in March 1984 and was Bathory's first appearance on record. To everyone's surprise, over 95 percent of fan mail, sent to the label after the record's release, was dedicated to Bathory. Tyfon asked the band to record a full-length album...
His bandmates having moved away, Quorthon recruited Rickard Bergman as bassist and Stefan Larsson as drummer. On 22 May 1984, they had their first and only rehearsal together before recording the album. On 14 June the band entered Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm (a converted garage) to record the debut. The studio had a homemade eight-channel tape recorder. Due to the band's tight budget, they ran the recorder at half-speed to fit everything on one master tape. They also had to work quickly – the recording and mixing were done in somewhere between 32 and 56 hours.
The album was originally to be named "Pentagrammaton" and to have a pentagram on the cover, but this name was scrapped when several people misread it as Pentagon. The pentagram was moved to the back and replaced with a retouched portion of a drawing made by Joseph A. Smith in 1981, for the book "Witches" by Erica Jong. For the writing on the back cover, Quorthon bought a set of rub-on letters in the Old English font; however, he was one letter short ('C'), and as a result, the second 'C' in "Necromancy" was replaced with an 'S'. The introduction, "Storm of Damnation", and the outro was also mistakenly left off the track listing.
The goat on the album cover, taken from a drawing by Joseph Smith, was originally meant to be printed in gold. However, this was too expensive to use, so Quorthon asked for it to be as near to gold as possible; the result was more of a yellowish color. According to "Swedish Death Metal" book, Quorthon thought it looked "awful", and after the first 1000 pressings it was switched to black-and-white. The yellow cover has become a collector's item, and is now well known as "Gula Geten" ("The Yellow Goat").
Daniel Ekeroth, author of the book "Swedish Death Metal", described the album's style as "basically a mix of the Satanic Party Rock of Venom and the energy of San Francisco Thrash Metal". While Bathory leader, Quorthon, claimed to have not heard Venom before making the album and to be inspired by Black Sabbath, Motörhead and GBH, former drummer Jonas Åkerlund claimed that Bathory was "exclusively" inspired by Venom during these days.
"Bathory" was released in October 1984 and sold out its subsequent pressing of 1000 in two weeks. The album has since gained a cult notoriety. It was reissued remastered on CD in 1990 through Black Mark Production.
Black Mark Production, 1984/2019 (BMCD 666- 1). Bootleg. Made in Poland.


Tracklist:
1. Hades 05:03
2. Reaper 02:44
3. Necromansy 03:41
4. Sacrifice 03:17
5. In Conspirasy with Satan 02:29
6. Armageddon 02:32
7. Raise the Dead 03:42
8. War 03:34
Total playing time: 27:11 min.

The second full-length studio album by legendary Scottish Rock band.
Big Country came out of one of the less dominant parts of the United Kingdom with an anthemic sound and vaguely revolutionary-sounding lyrics to captivate the British listening public and at least interest Americans. Big Country continued their winning ways at home with this, its second album, which topped the charts and produced three Top 40 hits: "East of Eden", "Where the Rose is Sown", and "Just a Shadow". But in the U.S., the album was perceived as proving that the band's sound, guitars-as-bagpipes, courtesy of the E-Bow, was a one-time novelty, while Stuart Adamson's lyrics, full of British socialist working-class fervour, seemed jingoistic and pretentious. Nevertheless, much of the music, as on the first album, made for stirring Rock & Roll.
Clanging and crackling with energy, this album from Big Country rings natural evolutionary changes on the band's stirring twin-guitar sound even as it frames still better news: bandleader Stuart Adamson has rapidly matured into a songwriter capable of bringing meticulous craft to his obvious passion.
"Steeltown" is the band's only UK number 1 album, topping the chart for 1 week in October 1984. "East of Eden" was the only Top 20 Single from the album, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.
Phonogram Ltd., London/Mercury, 1984 (822 831-1). Pressed in Netherlands. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM/EX+.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Flame Of The West 4:57
2. East Of Eden 4:30
3. Steeltown 4:39
4. Where The Rose Is Sown 4:57
5. Come Back To Me 4:37

Side 2
1. Tall Ships Go 4:38
2. Girl With The Grey Eyes 4:46
3. Rain Dance 4:19
4. Great Divide 4:50
5. Just A Shadow 5:40

Total playing time: 48:33 min.