30 Years of BLOOD FIRE DEATH

Release date: October 8th, 1988

The lyrics for "For All Those Who Died" are from a poem by Erica Jong, first published in her book Witches - the Goat on the cover of the 1st album "Bathory" was a a re-touched portion of a drawing made by Joseph A. Smith in 1981 for the same book. 

The cover painting is "Åsgårdsreien", painted in 1872 by Peter Nicolai Arbo.



The first letters of each line of "The Golden Walls of Heaven" form the word "SATAN". Also, the first letters of each line of "Dies Irae" form the sentence: "CHRIST THE BASTARD SON OF HEAVEN." The first three verses of "A Fine Day to Die" are taken from "Cassilda's Song" of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqvqF3kLT0

Hear our master calling us his children
Eternal life is given death withdrawn
As wolves among sheep we have wandered
Victory lies beyond their spit and scorn
Even the heavens shall burn when we are gathered
Now when the flames reach for the sky