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Does Bathory's 'Blood Fire Death' have a booklet/liner notes?


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Unusual question, but I've just purchased Bathory's seminal 'Blood Fire Death' album and the version I have has been put out by some bunch called Kraze from America. They've obviously licensed it from whoever owns the rights to the Bathory catalogue.

My problem is, the front cover is just a single card, with nothing on the back, so there are no liner notes apart from what's on the back cover. 

Obviously I have a cheap licensed copy, but is this frugality in album liner notes the standard version, or am I getting shafted? My copies of 'Hammerheart' and 'Under the Sign of the Black Mark' have lyrics etc printed, so I'm smelling a rat with the Kraze version. Can anyone shed any light? 

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That's the same version I have, it really is just a cheap, bare bones release. Even the back cover and the song listing looks fuzzy. The original LP had a lyrics sheet with it and I've seen another version on CD that had a band photo in it. I looked it up on Metal Archives, which said that the 2003 Irond Productions release "Includes booklet with lyrics, info and credits". And I'd estimate that the Black Mark Production releases are probably of a much better quality too and more complete, but I can't say for sure.

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On 07/11/2017 at 11:38 AM, morbidspectre said:

That's the same version I have, it really is just a cheap, bare bones release. Even the back cover and the song listing looks fuzzy. The original LP had a lyrics sheet with it and I've seen another version on CD that had a band photo in it. I looked it up on Metal Archives, which said that the 2003 Irond Productions release "Includes booklet with lyrics, info and credits". And I'd estimate that the Black Mark Production releases are probably of a much better quality too and more complete, but I can't say for sure.

Thanks for the reply. Looks like everyone else around here has a downloaded version... 

I really hate this CD version. I wish the first five albums would all be released in massive special editions. Have they? They’re pretty important albums after all.

I’m going to have to search for a decent version.

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No problem. The only kind of special editions I know of are picture disc versions that came out maybe 3 or 4 years ago, I think that's about it. You're right though, it is odd that there was never a proper Bathory boxed set. There was "In Memory of Quorthon", and it also had a vinyl release with a few extra things thrown in, but it was a compilation instead of an actual album collection. And yeah, that Kraze version leaves a hell of a lot to be desired. I might try to get a vinyl copy sometime. But the best versions of Blood Fire Death on CD would most likely be an Under One Flag first press or a Black Mark Production release.

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On 14/11/2017 at 10:51 PM, Parker said:

Why only the first 5? Usually I hear of the first 6 being the classic Bathory albums, and Blood Fire Death is my least favorite of those first 6.  As for the packaging, I got the same shitty version you did.

First 666. 

I hate this damn version. It feels like a bootleg. Why aren't these albums re-released properly in deluxe formats? I just don't get it. 

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