The Return…… (full title The Return of the Darkness and Evil) is the second studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory.

Not finding one, what they got was this apocalyptic poem with the song titles woven into it.

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic wrote of the album, "Like their eponymous debut of a year before, Bathory's 1985 sophomore effort, The Return......, was an unbelievably coarse proto-black metal album influenced almost exclusively by the earlier works of Venom.

But make no mistake: such was the genre's state of infancy at the time that, even though it was once again recorded under the most inadequate of circumstances at the auto repair garage Quorthon sympathetically baptized Heavenshore Studios, the album's impact still proved nothing short of revolutionary."

In various interviews, Fenriz of Darkthrone praised the album and defined it as "the essence of black metal".