ONE RODE TO ASA BAY -THE VIDEO-

 

During the year 1990 Quorthon, after years of pressure of his fans, decided to make a videoclip. He chose for the video the song "One Rode To Asa Bay", because he didn't want to make a simple sequence of images, but a short film with a story. The chosen song was perfect because its lyric was about the catholic's forced convertion of the viking population. The recording was very expensive: Quorthon had to pay it with the money earned from the release of unreleased material, recorded during the '80s. The videoclip was recorded in two weeks, 16 hours a day, in some places near Stockholm. The recording was long around 14 hours, so Quorthon had to choose the better scenes for the definitive work, which had to be long around 9 minutes. Quorthon, in the video, filmed ancient viking pieces of armour and (with the permission of the Swedish Government) some Swedish National Treasures. He also poured 200 liters of gasoline in the Baltic Sea and set fire to it to create special effects.

The quality of the recoding wasn't very good and the costs were very high, so Quorthon decided to not put on sale the videoclip. The video was broadcasted only 9 or 10 times on some music channels like MTV.