I've never considered Bathory to be black metal (they don't sound like it, anyway).
Don't care for the genre much either. It's a little too crazy and there are stories of some bands actually being so fanatical or anti-christ that they (literally) murdered people/bandmates over dumb crap.
The way I see both black and death metal is there's a whole lot of really shitty "underground" bands in those genres. It's not like the gothenburg / melodic death movement where I felt like almost every band had something to offer (In Flames, Dark Tranquility, At the Gates, etc).
Thrash also has a pretty good ratio of listenable-to-crap.
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