MY VINYL SELFIE: N.H. from Dublin metallers Vircolac extolls the virtues of Bathory

"I was familiar with some of the heavier Bathory stuff as a kid but a friend introduced me to this album and it was a revelation, I had never heard anything like it, it takes me to another time and plain every time I listen to it. I immediately purchased a copy on cassette and spent the next few years on a search for the LP. One day while browsing through a long gone second-hand record store in Dublin I spotted the logo peering above a pile of old LPs. Not only had I finally found an immaculate gatefold copy but it was also signed by Quorthon himself! A once in a lifetime find and for Five Irish Pounds, it doesn’t get much better than that. Hail the Hordes…"

Vircolac are supporting Primordial at Redemption Festival on Saturday May 26 in the Tivoli, Dublin