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| Vader albums ranked
The Polish death metal scene is amongst the best, but bands like Behemoth, and Decapitated may not exist if not for Vader, the Godfathers of death metal in eastern Europe. A band that has sold over one million albums, including the all-time best-selling death metal demo “Morbid Reich”, here’s my ranking of all eleven full lengths by the OSDM legends Vader. | | 1 |  | Vader
Impressions In Blood
It’s close but “Impressions in Blood” edges out “Litany” by a slim margin. I remember being fifteen listening to Bullet for My Valentine from my desktop with my sister’s shitty apple earbuds, then checking this beauty out and being completely mesmerized by it at the time especially by the riffs on the track “Predator”. I generally credit Behemoth as being my first death metal band, but there’s a chance I may have found death metal through “Impressions in Blood”. But the biggest highlight was my absolute favorite Vader song, “The Book”. It featured a melodic buildup into a heavy as fuck riff that is held for half the song while Peter subjects us to his visceral vocals. Then turning into a closing riff that’s even heavier accompanied by blast beats. Overall, “Impressions in Blood” is easily Vader’s most brutal and heavy album that features my favorite songs of theirs and is profoundly significant to my metal journey. One of the best death metal albums of all time. | | 2 |  | Vader
Litany
As far as reputable records are concerned, “Litany” is perhaps only overshadowed by “De Profundis”. Although for me “Litany” is undisputedly superior. It’s the prevalence of short but brutal tracks “Xeper”, “Wings”, and “Litany”. A trio of blazing anthems that lack nothing in the departments of memorability, creativity, and musicianship. Due in part to the presence of one of my favorite drummers Docent who saw his prime during the production of the album. They say he was able to hit three-hundred BPS on a dime, and on “Litany” shows us that several times. Shame no successive drummer could replicate his extreme talent. | | 3 |  | Vader
Tibi et Igni
Vader has almost always had an extra thrash metal fusion in their music, but it seems to be most prevalent on “Tibi Et Igni”. I mean it only takes twenty seconds into “Triumph of Death” to realize the band was aiming for a slight style change. In fact, I might go as far as to say this record was as much as 50% thrash. It made tracks such as that previously named catchier. Also, the track “Armada on Fire” features a really tasteful core-esque breakdown that has to be replayed. Yet another out of character yet welcome feature of the record. Vader reached new heights with “Tibi Et Igni” | | 4 |  | Vader
Welcome to the Morbid Reich
A rather popular Vader release, “Welcome to the Morbid Reich” was an all-round solid album. It didn’t suffer from the band's tendency to create somewhat repetitive albums and was therefor an improvement in listener engagement. Its title is a reference to one of their first pieces of material, the notorious demo aptly named “Morbid Reich”. The record featured many of the bands more popular tracks including “Decapitated Saints”, and "I Am Who Feasts Upon Your Soul" as well as one of my personal favorites "Black Velvet and Skulls of Steel" which sounds like something you’d find in San Francisco but serves as a great outro to an album where 80% of the songs are pretty damn good. | | 5 |  | Vader
Necropolis
The defining feature of this album is the track “Devilizer”, one of my two favorite songs by the band. It begins with a fast, toned down thrash-like riff before transitioning into a sick groovy bass-heavy riff. Then Peters badass vocals kick in. Aside from that I liked Peters vocal performance as well as the lyrics on the record. I thought that in the past on records like “The Beast” & “Revelations” among others had at times lame, corny, generic lyrics and song titles that Vader began to elaborate slightly after this album albeit, however, I do still think the band lacks in that department. | | 6 |  | Vader
De Profundis
Most of you would put this number one. However, for me it’s overshadowed by “Litany”. “De Profundis” marked an early and immediate breakthrough for Vader. Inevitably Vader’s compatriots Decapitated, and Behemoth were listening when Vader released this monumental record that brought Poland into the death metal limelight at a time when USA & Sweden were dominating the scene. Although musically it’s difficult to describe in relation to the band’s other albums because Vader’s consistency and loyalty to their sound are stricter than a butler’s schedule. Therefore, individual little details like riffs in specific songs can be the measure of enjoyment from one record to the next. | | 7 |  | Vader
The Empire
Got to give Vader credit for sticking to their sound for twenty-four years. It’s gotten them this far so why not? Prior to “The Empire”, Vader hustled us with lackluster singles, and an equally uninspiring EP. Even as the album began it seemed destined for disappointment. But then it climaxed around the middle with successive tracks “Iron Reign”, “No Gravity”, and “Genocidus” saving my listening experience. The latter being the highlight track. | | 8 |  | Vader
The Ultimate Incantation
I listened to this album around the same time that I heard “Eaten Back to Life” by Cannibal Corpse. Aside from the vocals, there were obvious parallels. Inevitably so, both are debuts by two of the most influential old school death metal bands. Both are by the book OSDM, at a time when bands were basically competing to revolutionize death metal. But its safe to say with this album, Vader left such things for other bands to do. It’s simple, to the point with decent riffs. Nothing more, nothing less. | | 9 |  | Vader
Black to the Blind
Another weak Vader release, “Carnal” was the only memorable track on the album. The only thing that separates this album from the previous two is the fact that overall it was less dry and more enjoyable than them. Not entirely sure why that’s the case, but maybe because it was the bridge between their defining works, so the general sound rubbed off on it, albeit minimally. | | 10 |  | Vader
Revelations
I feel like after releasing their two most acclaimed albums Vader got a little bit too comfortable, instead of riding the wave of their previous successes, they released the atrociously boring album “Revelations”. I almost feel bad being so critical of this album because it was the last album that featured criminally underappreciated drummer Docent. Who’s drumming is the only bright spot on the album. But I’m being painfully honest. | | 11 |  | Vader
The Beast
This album is forgivable because it’s understandable that the band may have been a little disoriented after the unfortunate death of Docent. But again, If I’m being honest, the track “The Sea Came in at Last” is the only thing that saved this album from being a total disaster in my eyes. “Revelations” and unoriginally named “The Beast” represent a grey area in Vader’s otherwise brilliant career. | |
TheNotrap
07.02.19 | Welcome to the Morbid Reich is my fav. Band rules
| Arditi
07.02.19 | Agreed! Thanks for stopping by :) | DungeonBoy
07.02.19 | Vader rules m/ | Rowhaus
07.02.19 | Vader is sick yea | Thalassic
07.02.19 | Vader rules m/ [2] | Rowhaus
07.02.19 | also major props for shouting out The Book. That's one of their best tracks. When those clackitty drums fire up with that riff m/ Eye of the Abyss off of Tibi is also insane | WretchedCacophony
07.02.19 | This is one of those bands where pretty much anything is a good intro to the band but as you go you don't see much to differentiate album by album, no? | Arditi
07.02.19 | Personally, I disagree with you mate. There are few dissimilarities because they stay so close to their core sound. Varies only minimally on records like #3 for example. | WretchedCacophony
07.03.19 | That's basically what I said lol |
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