Destroyer of Worlds | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Bathory |
Cover: | Destroyer of worlds.jpg |
Released: | 9 October 2001 |
Recorded: | June 2001 |
Length: | 65:57 |
Label: | Black Mark |
Producer: | Borje Forsberg, Quorthon |
Prev Title: | Blood on Ice |
Prev Year: | 1996 |
Next Title: | Nordland I |
Next Year: | 2002 |
Destroyer of Worlds is the tenth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released on 9 October 2001, through Black Mark Production.
The album's title is taken from a famous quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer about the atomic bomb: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds", which was itself quoted from verse 32 of chapter 11 in the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Vishnu.
Stylistically, Destroyer of Worlds is a cross between the Viking metal of Bathory's 1988–1991 period and the thrash metal style of Requiem and Octagon. It is Bathory's longest studio album.