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Before there was a rulebook for extreme metal, there were bands like Bathory and Repulsion. Their early work, created in an era without a genre name to fit them, was a testament to raw, unbridled aggression. Stories from these early days—of tape trading across continents, homemade flyers, and the sheer audacity to create something so vile and fast—are what built the foundation of the underground. Bathory's lo-fi black metal chaos and Repulsion's proto-grindcore assault weren't just albums; they