Acoustic Bathory - Woman of Dark Desires (Gene Willow's cover) | Music Video

This is my acoustic parody cover song of "Woman of Dark Desires" by a black metal pioneer band Bathory from their third album "Under The Sign Of The Black Mark" (1986).

Tab (without solo though):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/78sgw68wzydr82s/Bathory_-_Woman_Of_Dark_Desires.gp5/file

For me, Bathory is the first real black metal band that I know. Of course, bands like Venom, Hellhammer and even early Brazilian bands like Sepultura contributed into the formation of the genre, but Bathory is the first one that sounds like a 100% black metal to me.

As for the song “Woman of Dark Desires”, as well as the very name of the band, it seems to be inspired by Venom’s song “Countess Bathory”. I can’t be sure, though - it’s just my guess.

The lyrics of the song are telling about Elizabeth Báthory - a Hungarian countess who is believed to be a cruel person who killed tens of young women and girls for taking baths of their blood, believing that this would make her youth last longer. She was executed for this later, but modern historians don’t really know if she really committed these crimes: as she was a countess, and hence an important person in the country, there might have been some political controversy involved. It’s probable that her political opponents just created false accusations in order to get rid of her.

While composing my version of the song, I had to choose between a real acoustic black metal way of playing it and arpeggio. I thought arpeggio sounded more interesting in this particular case, so I chose it. But maybe someday I will make one more version that is closer to the original.

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