- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Forsberg
- Height6′ 6″ (1.98 m)
- Quorthon was born on February 17, 1966 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was a composer, known for Gummo (1997), Spun (2002) and Lords of Chaos (2018). He died on June 7, 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Founding member (March 1983), musician and only composer of black metal band Bathory.
- He is considered as one of the pioneering figures of extreme metal genres, particularly black metal with the first Bathory albums ("The return...", "Under the sign of the black mark"), and viking metal with records such as "Hammerheart" and "Twilight of the gods".
- Apart from Bathory, he also recorded pop/rock-oriented music under the name Quorthon.
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