Bathory
Die Neue lässt auf sich warten

Wieder wurde der Release der kommenden Bathory Scheibe „Destroyer of Worlds“ verschoben – auf den 30. Juni 2001. Quorthon äussert sich wie folgt: „It’s really a challenge not to repeat yourself. On the other hand, the BATHORY fans would probably want just [a continuation of what I did before]. An album that follows the line of what BATHORY has done in the past. The problem is that the BATHORY fan base [cannot agree on what they want to hear from the band]. On one hand, you have the dark occult and semi-satanic [fans], and on the other, you have the sword wielding epic and semi-Viking ones. You will have a great problem satisfying both camps with one album. What we have decided to do is to write material that would a little bit of both; delivering power and brutality, epic and doom, big drums and thrashing guitars etc. In time we’ll see if we have been successful in doing just that. [But] the new album won’t be a anything like [1996’s] „Blood On Ice“ (the last proper BATHORY studio album) at all. At least it won’t be a concept album. Some of the lyrics on the new album could be taken for epic stuff, some could be regarded as occult while others are up to date sort of. I have a track written about aerial combat, another one is about a cult, a third is about religion etc.“