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Under the Sign of the Black Mark

Artist Bathory Released 1987 Type album

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Third of the twelve Bathory records held here. It came four years into a run that began in 1983. 1987 is five years into Black metal, which this tree dates from 1982. It is one of the four records Black metal is listed as starting from.

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Under the Sign of the Black Mark is the third studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was recorded in September 1986 and released on 11 May 1987 through New Renaissance Records and Under One Flag. It was a key album in the development of the black metal genre, and greatly influenced the Norwegian black metal scene that emerged in the early 1990s.

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