Vader - Ultimate Incantation
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Artist: VaderEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Music Label: Earache Records
Soundtracks:
- Creation
- Dark Age
- Vicious Circle
- Crucified Ones
- Final Massacre
- Testimony
- Regin Carrion
- Chaos
- One Step to Salvation
- Demon's Wind
- Decapitated Saints
- Breath of Centuries
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Free Music Review: Death Metal from a world away
Hit: 4 Stars
When this hit U.S. shores in 1992, Florida, New York and California had burgeoning Death Metal scenes. There was the Birmingham, UK Death Metal scene as well but beyond that most other places were a mystery for this genre (speaking from a U.S. perspective). Behold Vader from Katowice, Poland!
Forming in 1986 and toiling around the Eastern European Thrash scene for while, and releasing at least two demos in the process, Vader was the first Death Metal band ever from Poland and one of the members of the first generation Death Metal club with members like Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Sadus, Immolation, Benediction and others. Back in the day, that was Vader's claim to fame -being from the other side of the "Iron Curtain" but playing a style being fomented in the West.
On the debut release, Vader definitely has there own sound but borrows heavily from both the "old school" (like Slayer, Kreator, Sodom and Possessed) as well as the "newer school" (like Morbid Angel/Terrorizer and Death). All the instruments are competent on this album. The guitars keep a constant pace and the riffs and wild solos are all executed with amazing technical grace and precision. The vocals also are not of the "cookie monster" variety and just sound like old school Death Metal or maybe even mid-eighties Thrash vocals. You can always hear what is being said and most importantly the vocals come across as being authentic. The bass is mostly inaudible but hey, that isn't usually the featured instrument in this genre unless your last name is DiGiorgio. The drums are sometimes bland but are at other times absolutely amazing like on "Testimony", "The Crucified Ones" and "Reign Carrion". The drumming is sometimes all played at once (for example the hi-hat on top of the snare at the same time the bass is playing single or double time) and is boring but at other times there are amazing feats of limb separation especially in the fills.
Here is classic Vader. The stuff legends are made of. The tempos here are a little bit more varied than their late 90s/early 2000s output. It is apparent from listening to this album that they hadn't quite cemented their sound but that doesn't take away from how awesome this album remains. If you've got this far in the review you owe it to yourself to buy.
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