Driven by aggression, VADER bring their typical dark tunes and morbid leads to the battlefield and once more underline their status as legends. But VADER also bring a lot of diversification; besides the record’s thrashier moments, the tank rolls at a steady pace – straight to the front without compromises and without mercy!
A retrospective album reminiscing the biggest bands of the Polish metal underground of the '80s and the '90s. Peter himself handpicked the best classical tracks from bands like IMPERATOR, MERCILESS DEATH and GHOST.
First first official VADER demo. Never before professionally released. Released as black 140 gram vinyl, engraving on B side, gatefold jacket, printed innersleeves and printed insert.
“Morbid Reich” is acclaimed as one of the best selling death metal demos of all time. Actually, it’s considered one of the best selling metal demos in the history of all metal, selling over 10,000 copies! This is piece of Death Metal worldwide history, essence of death metal showed the world that there was such a thing as metal behind the Iron Curtain that still existed at the time. *Third the most acclaimed VADER demo
With riffs that sound akin to a demolition squad, double bass attacks like uppercuts and vocals that echo from your guts like thunder in the night, VADER have outdone themselves on their new opus. “Tibi et igni” embodies death metal in perfection!
With riffs that sound akin to a demolition squad, double bass attacks like uppercuts and vocals that echo from your guts like thunder in the night, VADER have outdone themselves on their new opus. “Tibi et igni” embodies death metal in perfection!
There are few things more appetizing than an old school fit of symmetrically structured mayhem in a concise, sub-40 minute package, and this has been Vader’s stock and trade as a pioneer of that fine art that cropped up in the midst of that violent fit of evolution between thrash and death metal. In those mystical days, circa 1988-1991, there was a bit more to the storyline than just unintelligible verses about the anatomy of a mutilated murder victim. The dark tales of spiritual distress, darkness, and religious conflict paint a picture of woe and dread more in line with classical horror, and emit’s a sort of class unto itself that is less heard of in more brutal manifestations of the style.
With their 9th full length album “Welcome To The Morbid Reich”, the message is a flair for brilliance amid a strict and consistent template. The aesthetic is all but a perfect modern realization of the greatest aspects of Possessed through the better days of Deicide and Morbid Angel. Room is made of punishing mid and upper tempo riffs that are more thrash based, at least by the more extreme standard, and the almighty blast beat is not abused in the name of a straight-line chaotic approach, which is more along the lines of what present Behemoth strives for with a different atmospheric flavor. It’s literally as heavy and a vile as the recent return of Benton and company in “To Hell With God”, but has much more variation and detailing.
While not really a massive departure from the band’s root sound, this album has a bit more of a grandiose, regal feel to it that fit’s the title. The orchestration work on the two instrumental offerings “Ultima Thule” and “They Are Coming…” reminisce of a grand film score sound, perhaps along the lines of a darkened variation on a Hollywood blockbuster. This tendency is then infused into the killer first full length and title song “Welcome To The Morbid Reich”, with all the pomp and droning tremolo riff trappings to cast a shadow not all that different from an earlier offering out of Kreator. The vocal work of Peter is the chief influence keeping this in the death metal realm, while the guitar work exemplifies a duality of chaotic evil and singing beauty. Other fits of grandiose brilliance can be heard in “I Am Who Feasts Upon Your Soul” and “I Had A Dream”, which play up the thrash side a bit more.
If quality is a requirement, this reaches well above and beyond the call of duty insofar as death metal goes. There are many albums that have achieved a similar level of majestic wickedness, but most of them were put out before 1996, and in this modern age of genre splicing and watering down the meat and potatoes in order to draw in new adherents, it’s rarity translates into an obligatory purchase. Now if only Morbid Angel could still put albums with this level of intrigue, as they did in the early to mid 90s, there would be an American equivalent stylistically to this fine homage to arcane sonic morbidity. (www.metal-archives.com)
CD 1 1. Intro 2. Chaos 3. Vicious Circle 4. The Crucified Ones 5. Dark Age 6. Reign-Carrion 7. Silent Empire 8. Sothis 9. Incarnation 10. Reborn In Flames 11. Blood Of Kingu 12. Carnal 13. Fractal Light 14. Red Passage 15. Black To The Blind CD 2 1. Kingdom 2. Wings 3. Xeper 4. Cold Demons 5. Final Massacre 6. Reign Forever World 7. Epitaph 8. Dark Transmission 9. Fear Of Napalm 10. Wyorcznia 11. Tyrani Pieki
1. Intro 2. ShadowFear 3. Sothis 4. Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead) 5. Warlords 6. Silent Empire 7. Blood of Kingu 8. Intro: Out 9. Out of the Deep 10. Carnal 11. Dark Age 12. Black to the Blind 13. Intro: Para Bellum 14. This Is the War 15. Lead Us 16. What Colour Is Your Blood? 17. Epitaph 18. Cold Demons 19. Predator 20. Wings 21. Wyrocznia (feat. Orion)
Bonus video: - Interview with Peter - Video clip "Sword of the Witcher" - Other features to be confirmed
Also includes: - Photo gallery - Desktop images - Biography - Discography - Weblinks - Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Tracklist of the bonus CD is the same as the DVD.
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1. Between Day and Night 00:41 2. ShadowsFear 04:50 3. As Heavens Collide... 02:41 4. Helleluyah!!! (God is Dead) 03:02 5. Field of Heads 04:06 6. Predator 05:12 7. Warlords 02:43 8. Red Code 02:30 9. Amongst the Ruins 04:07 10. They Live!!! 02:13 11. The Book 05:07
1. Intro1 / Epitaph 2. Torch of War 3. Xeper 4. Carnal 5. Reign Forever World 6. Intro 2 / Breath of Centuries 7. Silent Empire 8. Black to the Blind 9. Intro 3 / Revelations of Black Moses 10. North 11. Nomad 12. Sothis 13. Raining Blood
1. Shape-Shifting 04:49 2. We Wait 03:54 3. As the Fallen Rise 02:12 4. Son of Fire 02:09 5. Traveler 02:06 6. When Darkness Calls 05:17 7. Angel of Death (Thin Lizzy cover) 06:29
