Bathory "Norland 1 & 2" 2023-04-07 James LaBrie of Dream Theater

James LaBrie of Dream Theater

a move to Arizona then Chicago didn’t stop Horace Pinker from recording

and gained the band a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals the following year

he recorded music by himself in his bedroom

Bathory "Norland 1 & 2" 2023-04-07 James LaBrie of Dream TheaterRecorded and mixed in February, 1985, at Elektra Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. There were a handful of bands that influenced the birth of Scandinavian black metal (frequently referred to as the Second Wave of Black Metal), but few are worshipped as faithfully as Swedens Bathory. Formed in 1983 and led (and most instrumentation provided) by Quorthon (Thomas Forsberg), their first four albums laid the groundwork for black metals sonic aesthetics: lo fi