Polish death metal legends VADER are very pleased to announce details for their new brand new studio album, titled ‘The Empire’. This is the follow up record to their highly acclaimed 2014 album, ‘Tibi Et Igni’, and it was recorded at Hertz Studio in Bialystok (Poland) and produced by Wojtek and Slawek Wiesawski. The band is also announcing the release of a special single as part of an EP release, the single is taken from their upcoming album. The full EP is titled ‘Iron Times’ and will include the following songs:
Side A
01. Parabellum
02. Prayer To The God Of WarSide B
01. Piesc I Stal
02. Overkill
VADER’s front man Piotr Wiwczarek states:
”I am so excited to announce the new Vader album, which will be released by Nuclear Blast again! ‘The Empire’ – which is the title of the upcoming full length – is due to be out at the end of September 2016. However, we have also prepared a special EP called ’Iron Times’ to be released in August! There are two new tracks included on the EP, plus two bonus songs. Joe Petagno himself created the amazing cover artwork.”
The new album will be a follow up to the band’s 2014 offering Tibi Et Igni, their tenth studio album recorded by the Wiesławski brothers at Hertz Studio in Poland.
There is some contention as to the beginnings of Vader, but the truth is that they began in the autumn of 1983 by Piotr ‘Peter’ Wiwczarek (‘Bardast’ and later ‘Behemoth’ back then) playing the bass and the guitarist Zbyszek ‘Vika’ Wroblewski. Extreme metal was about to be born in Poland and Vader were among the pioneers of that genre in the newly emerging underground – and the only band from that era still reigning! The first crucial point in the band’s history was their participation in the first Polish heavy metal festival – Metalmania in 1986, where they played to an audience of around 5000 persons.
Vader recorded their first official material in 1989 in Olsztyn which became the 4-track demo ‘Necrolust’. This was their first studio release that reached beyond the Polish borders and earned them some excellent reviews across the globe. They released the demo ‘Morbid Reich’ in 1990 which eventually gained the status of being one of the bestselling metal demos in history. ‘Morbid Reich’ was also the first release to host Vader’s now infamous logo.
Hear some of the oldest VADER tracks right here – all three demos, Live in Decay (1986), Necrolust (1989), and Morbid Reich (1990), are available forr streaming below:
