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Questa recensione è dedicata a Doc, il fenomenale ex batterista dei Vader, defunto pochi giorni fa. Rip Brother!!!
Nel 1995, il death metal in Polonia era quasi esclusivamente rappresentato dagli alfieri Vader (i Behemoth erano ancora impegnati nel loro primitivo ambito black e i Decapitated, le giovanissime rivelazioni attuali, erano probabilmente ancora troppo piccoli per far qualcosa), gruppo in attività sin dal 1983 (!!!) e dedito inizialmente ad un thrash death abbastanza canonico, per poi virare, dopo l’uscita dei primi capolavori del genere (Seven Churches, Scream Bloody Gore, Altars Of Madness, Left Hand Path, per citare alcuni tra i più celebri), ad una forma di death metal estremamente originale, moooolto violenta, relativamente lineare e scorrevole e saldamente ancorata al thrash anni Ottanta, col quale questi polacchi erano cresciuti. Ecco che quindi, dopo il demo del 1990 “Morbid Reich” (il demo death più venduto di tutti i tempi, sembra) si susseguirono alcuni dischi di pregevole fattura, che permisero ai Vader di emergere dall’underground, dove erano rimasti fin troppo tempo, e di farsi notare anche al di fuori del bigottissimo Paese, avverso al metal a livelli che potremmo definire quasi italiani.
Il colpaccio però avvenne nel 1995, anno in cui il death era più che altro una eco del triennio 1991-1993, ma che continuava comunque a sfornare i suoi (quasi) ultimi capolavori (“Symbolic”, ”Domination”, ”Once Upon The Cross”, ”World Demise”, ”None So Vile”, ”Pierced From Within”, per restare in ambito di death nordamericano).
Ecco dunque unirsi a queste eccezionali prove “De Profundis”, un disco che fondamentalmente non aggiungeva nulla di ciò che era stato già detto in America o in Svezia, ma che dava quella ventata di aria fresca ad un genere che si avviava verso lo stantio.
La formula è semplice: violenza, violenza e ancora violenza. Il sound dei Vader trova il suo perno attorno all’originalissimo cantato di Peter, non un growl propriamente detto ma altrettanto “kick-ass”, al precisissimo, tecnicissimo e molto molto creativo (avrei detto creativissimo ma non ci sarebbe stato bene)drumming di Doc (RIP) e a riff veloci e fondamentalmente lineari, con una componente tecnica mai fine a se stessa.
Dentro a questo cd ci sono alcune tra le migliori cose mai sentite nel death, come i riffs da headbanging dell’opener “Silent Empire” (la più bella traccia del lotto), la fulminante “An Act Of Darkness”, le velocissime “Incarnation” e “Sothis” e la irregolare “Revolt”, dove è la maestria di Doc dietro le pelli a far da padrone. Eccetto la sperimentale e lenta “Blood Of Kingu”, leggermente al di sotto del resto, il disco non presenta assolutamente cali di tono, anche se ci vorrà un po’ prima di mettervelo in testa. Grandi Vader e grande Doc!
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Silent Empire (04:03)
We await the silent empire
The timeless domain of disinherited ones
We do believe in silence
All that is hidden and hushed serves our quest
The spaceless kingdom of ones that expect
The nameless worshippers of future to come
When the courier's sign glimmers in the dark
We rise our eyes in wait
Our heads - that's where it dwells
Our hearts - that's where it ripens
Our hopes - that's where it reigns
You'd better never antagonize the horn
We wish to disremember the defeated cause
Lost in the maze of the world
We restlessly seek way out and up
To evil towers, to another fall from grace into pride
There in the world they think they conspire
How pitiful seems their toil and plot
We drop out letters into waste bins in the streets
And gather to read the words of those who concoct
Our heads - that's where it dwells
Our hearts - that's where it ripens
Our hopes - that's where it reigns
You'd better never antagonize the horn
The empire, it is in us
The horn, there you can see
The message, this should come soon Trystero, the name we behold
We're from the outer empire
Our heads - that's where it dwells
Our hearts - that's where it ripens
Our hopes - that's where it reigns
You'd better never antagonize the horn
We await the silent empire
02 An Act of Darkness (01:56)
An act of darkness is in us
Holy times and sacred season sites
Oh, black hole empty God
Let them devour their own light
An elevenfold cross eclipse
Symmetric fourness not to be found
Brightness protons vibrate outside
The 10th Aire very unGod
Blind larvae of moonlight souls
Trapped in the saliva of Times
Root their lairs in mucus of the void
A name of none and nothing
An elevenfold cross eclipse
Symmetric fourness not to be found
Brightness protons vibrate outside
The 10th Aire very unGod
A non-form of all-forms is
The paradox of the Highest Monads
Haughty Lords, Gehenna below
Govern those who govern
An elevenfold cross eclipse
Symmetric fourness not to be found
Brightness protons vibrate outside
The 10th Aire very unGod
04 Incarnation (03:08)
A soul in blackness once enslaved
Reaching an outer dimension
To get my unrest slayed
Wisdom ideas in seven steps
I saw them flying, falling, dying
Immortal till the strength's come
Dipped in pains of disdain
Humbling themselves until dawns
An outer space, inconceivable
Forbidden regions for the mortal ones
You find out the mysterious way
And touch the beginning of time before the light
I saw them flying, falling, dying
Immortal till the strength's come
Dipped in pains of disdain
Humbling themselves until dawns
Magick triumphers whisper with drone
Of their victory, napping through the ages
A cipher of books of no return
To bring you near by their calm
Ritual dementia hour to be higher
Prenatal atavism exploding again
Phantasmagorial ones awakening
To lay their power onto me
I saw them flying, falling, dying
Immortal till the strength's come
Dipped in pains of disdain
I saw them falling down
05 Sothis (03:43)
No more a thing I knew... transformed - transfigured
transcended... in an endless progress cycle
DNA metamorphosis... of the dying cells
into something that will last... last forever
immortal... my soul... alone under...
the cracking skies... on trembling Earth
closing the eye... of blinding Sun
WHO AM I? - a question... already answered
I am who I am... no less, no more
destined to be... never to extinct
remaining after... everything dies
remaining... a Dog Star's Son... beyond the Sun
for ever... and more
06 Revolt (03:36)
The mighty lord of universe
That moves the stars above
Hearken and remember
Your spawn of race of men
... Here is the key
IA - to set the madness free
Ruler of the underworld
Who came from blackened stars
I hear you in my dreams
Your voice is calling me again
I am the lord of darkness
The power and the knowledge of the gods
Before me was made nothing that was made
I am the ancient race
I feel forgotten world
Where only madness dwells
And all the creatures
Hail the name of Kingu
I am the lord of hell
No man may seek my resting place
Before me was made nothing that was made
I am the father of the race
Forbidden caverns in the ground filled with the evil spawn
Still waiting for the prophesied revival
And when collapsed stars come into sight
They'll rise up to rule the Earth again
'cause they're rulers of the world
Lunatic screams inside your mind tear your souls apart
You're the chosen one to join your primal being
The ultimate revolt like transformation of the form
Will bring to ruin the Nazarene's empire
'cause you are rulers of the world
08 Vision and the Voice (03:29)
Raising my head to yell my life out
Standing naked, strained as a dying worm
With body of light gleaming with my disquiet
With myriads of stars not-to-be-seen
Here to cry the glassy anguish
Of souls dwelling in darkness that fell
My throat is DAATH, the seal is breaking
ZONAI screaming the vows of frozen winds
Of shapes winged - we should be left behind
We, lightnings turned into pillars
Torn into shreds, in stillborn screams
Trembling with woes of fiery cycles
PAZ - to be as they
Yea, I say, to be as they
An oath and order to be heard
A sigil and cypher to be seen
OL SONUF VAORESAJI
And that's the truth, you will taste it
Aetheric dimensions of cocoon sleepers
Waters, Earthes and Fyres not given to us
Mumbling the calls of Aires alone
Laying the tablets carved in flesh
Demons to some, Angels to others... [Clive Barker's "Hellraiser"]
09 Reborn in Flames (05:41)
Comes the time of fear and pain
The human race is bleeding away!
The earth covered by ashes and flesh
Dying in terrible decay
Freezing winds freezing it all
What fire hasn't burnt
Blackened blood flooding the graves
Messiah will never return!
Unholy words of ancient prophecy
Now come true - the dead rise from hell...
Toxic storms attack from the sky
Spreading the light of deadly pleasure
Nuclear mutants buried alive
In blasting dust of dying world
Atomic falls putrefy human brains
The living dead creep in bloody bog
The lord of hate was awaken by death
Before you die, can see the end!
All will burn in his breath
His eyes paralyze every life
The demons wheel above his head
Like vultures seeking the flesh
All will burn in his breath
His eyes paralyze every life
All demons transformed into grubs
To make the globe a stinking rot
Born to destroy the holy ghost to the end
Now finished wars of God
His name is the Exterminator
Covering the earth with vaporous rot
The real messiah reborn in flames
Creator was the hell
He's killer of the world of the living
The dead worship his majesty
Comes the time of wrath and death
Heaven has turned blood-red fire
Crucified souls vomiting the blood
In embrace of mortal desire
Freezing winds that froze that all
What fire has already burnt
Blackened blood flooding the corpses
Messiah will never return!
No return!!!
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