Octagon (Bathory album)

Octagon
Studio album by Bathory
Released	5 June 1995 [1]
Recorded	30 January – 23 March 1995 [2]
Studio	Hellhole Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	39:40
Label	Black Mark
Producer	Borje Forsberg, Quorthon
Bathory chronology
Requiem (1994) Octagon (1995) Blood on Ice (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Chronicles of Chaos	8/10 [3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10 [4]

Octagon is the eighth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released on 5 June 1995 through Black Mark Production. It continues the retro thrash metal style of the previous album, Requiem . It was reissued in 2003, with the first two tracks combined and "Winds of Mayhem" outro added.

Spin Magazine said it was one of the worst heavy metal albums of all time. ^[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Quorthon, except "Deuce", written by Gene Simmons.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Immaculate Pinetreeroad #930"	2:46
2.	"Born to Die"	3:58
3.	"Psychopath"	3:19
4.	"Sociopath"	3:09
5.	"Grey"	1:14
6.	"Century"	4:08
7.	"33 Something"	3:16
8.	"War Supply"	4:41
9.	"Schizianity"	4:17
10.	"Judgement of Posterity"	5:11
11.	"Deuce" (Kiss cover)	3:42
Total length:		39:40

2003 reissue

All tracks are written by Quorthon, except "Deuce", written by Gene Simmons.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Immaculate Pinetreeroad #930 / Born to Die"	6:45
2.	"Psychopath"	3:19
3.	"Sociopath"	3:09
4.	"Grey"	1:14
5.	"Century"	4:08
6.	"33 Something"	3:16
7.	"War Supply"	4:41
8.	"Schizianity"	4:17
9.	"Judgement of Posterity"	5:11
10.	"Deuce" (Kiss cover)	3:42
11.	"Winds of Mayhem (Outro)"	0:23
Total length:		40:03

Personnel

• Quorthon – vocals, guitar
• Kothaar – bass guitar
• Vvornth – percussion, drums

References

1. "New albums". Music Week . 3 June 1995. p. 52.
2. Wesolowski, David Peter. "Octagon - Bathory : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 9 September 2012.
3. Filicetti, Gino (1 October 1995). "CoC : Bathory - Octagon : Review". Chronicles of Chaos . Retrieved 9 September 2012.
4. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 42. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
5. O'Connor, Andy (14 September 2022). "The 12 Worst Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". SPIN. Retrieved 18 December 2025.