Per festeggiare alla grande i 5 lustri di attività, questa famosa macchina da guerra di violentissimo e storico death metal ha voluto pubblicare un lavoro sostanzialmente corposo e allo stesso tempo, fra qualche anno, potrebbe divenire, a livello mondiale, decisamente monumentale. Vorrei ricordare sin da subito che “non abbiamo a che fare” con una semplice compilation, ma siamo di fronte ad una vera e propria rivisitazione nonchè ad un'attenta estrapolazione di tutti i loro più importanti brani del passato.
Ritengo che reincidere nuovamente tutte le tracce di un glorioso passato sia una decisione molto soggettiva che da una parte risulta utile attraverso l'utilizzo degli attuali strumenti musicali, decisamente molto più variegati ed avanzati rispetto al passato, dall'altra è un modo efficace per prepararsi con lo spirito giusto dinanzi a quello che sarà fra qualche mese il loro prossimo full-length. Per alcuni recuperare tutta la loro discografia è stata un'operazione alquanto inutile, per altri e soprattutto per tutti coloro che son diventati da qualche mese a questa parte deathster, può valere la pena di rivolgersi a questa abbondante raccolta, regalandosi un album che spacca "di brutto" lungo tutto il suo scorrimento, ricco dell’estetica e dell’etica intensa dei Vader, e allo stesso tempo offrendo loro ampio e meritatissimo tributo. Un intenso e raffinato lavoro che è servito per ottenere nuove forme di interpretazione di songs storiche come "Silent Empire", "Blood Of Kingu", e "Black To The Blind", le quali hanno acquisito una potenza ancora più rilevante ed incisiva, degne delle esibizioni live della death metal band polacca.
C'è poco altro da dire, senonchè i Vader siano una delle realtà death metal più importanti a livello mondiale, avendo offerto sempre lavori di altissima qualità e live-show distruttivi nell'intero pianeta, tutto unito ad una coerenza e serietà compositiva davvero da invidiare. Soltanto una decisione o meglio una loro “voluta o non voluta dimenticanza” mi ha fatto storcere un po' il naso: il non aver voluto inserire, in una così prestigiosa pietra miliare, pezzi come la famosissima "Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead)" e le violentissime "The Live!!!" e "The Book" tratti dall'ultimo apocalittico album del 2006 "Impressions in Blood". Sostanzialmente diciamo in definitiva che siamo di fronte ad un album dove pochissime sono le pause nei 95 minuti di puro death, diverse le cover-omaggio, lunghe note nel libretto a spiegare il perchè ed il percome di ogni singola traccia, tutto associato a questa straordinaria band, dalle altissime potenzialità death, fra Slayer e "Death metal", oltre che protagonisti di una scena estrema alla quale hanno fortemente contribuito a costruire capolavori e a vedersi, in maniera graduale, finalmente realizzati.
26 brani estratti da tutti i loro full-length completamente registrati in veste nuova al fine di festeggiare il venticinquesimo anniversario della fondazione della band. Sui mercati internazionali non vi è nulla che possa fungere in egual modo e così efficacemente come biglietto da visita per il “Vader’s sound”. Buon compleanno!
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02 Chaos (04:16)
Time to play - to cut off your head
Time to die - my cruelty will make you dead
Show your fear, don't escape into madness
Your rotting gutted body
Shall vanish in the maze of Death
An ablazing usurper's dream
Blasphemy to idols made in stone
Throne of might and its unseen Lord
Stars waned by the fright of Him
Shining jewels in his crown
like drops of my sacrificial blood
Ceremony of the abhorrent's deaths
Words too insane to tell
Chaos...
The pentagramic rule
Of the frigid existence
Disdainful temptation
Of an absurd resistance
Mindless decaying eyes of the dead
Observe the world with fear
Staring at the growth
Of limitless domination
Dementious, perverse lust and will
To see my Master as triumphant
Extreme of my coldful force
To bring His enemies down on knees
Cruel, unresponsible wisdom
Purity of duration in fear
Chaotic experiences of my mind
Becoming now to be distinct
Chaos...
03 Vicious Circle (02:37)
Necromancer, the rites of dementia
See what the death looks like
Souls in Limbo, coming with eternal flames
Arrive in circles of trembling hands
No inferno but also no heavens
No god on his golden throne
Promised eden turned into desert
Empty space and dead remains
Spectral mouth tells hopeless truth
In unknown words massacring the mind
There is nothing after life
What we can imagine now and here
Infinitely full of posthumous nothing
Greed for immorality
Is only despair now
Caught in the waiting for nowhere
Selling the souls for oblivions price
"I must be immortal"
Nocturnal stagnancy as I burn my candles
Sanity now dozes and waits for a day
Nightmares in their real dimensions
No hope now.....
Soon I will die.....
No inferno but also no heavens
No god on his golden throne
Promised eden turned into desert
Empty spaces and dead remains
04 Crucified Ones (03:18)
Mortal crosses standing in the row
Seem to reach up to the burning sky
Damned souls grouping on the dark
Going round the stretched arms
Bodies, faces
Unnaturally bended in pain
Lifeless eyes staring at the space
Persecution of the dying has begun
Here's the place of the alteration
Where life turns into other form
Dark ritual of demons procreation
Hear the cries - of the crucified ones
Throbing Flashes in the rhytm of thunder
Nailed hands greeting angry gods
Coming fourth to feast in blood
Bodies, faces
Unnaturally changend in lust
Purple fluid streams on the wood
Like tears of dying cross...
Here's the place of alteration
Where gods turn into temporal form,
Dark ritual of demons procreation
Come on! Leave your life and join the dead in hell
Masters of forgotten arts
Deign to look at your servant
Acceptance my greatest sacrufuce
Sebd revebge in vastard's seed!
O come to me!
I beg thee, open wide the gates
All flends of flends
From the deep of dark abyss arrive!
Pazuzu, the evil one
Lord, who feeds on agel cries!
Bless the damned, curse the blessed
- crucify them
SONG: The Final Massacre
Warriors with hate inflict destruction
Comes true the awful prediction
Still alive corpses lie in the street
Spitting the blood to the god
Dying in flames damned mob
Screaming in pain "This can't be, Oh god"
Maybe they will understand he was never
But will be too late, so die forever
Circling in the sky the demons now descend
To raise their slaughter of mankind till its end
The final massacre of people on the earth
Pain cracks their minds, everywhere is death
False gods in their temples tremble with fear
They know the death is now so near
Unearthly Armageddon burns with flames of doom
Poisoned seed flung into virgin's womb
Circling in the sky the demons now descend
To raise their slaughter of mankind till its end
The final massacre of people on the earth
Pain cracks their minds, everywhere is death
Merciless' angels fly over head
Its no time for your imploring plans
Commit suicide with horror in your eyes
Bleeding with scars, pride world now dies
Warriors with hate inflict destruction
Comes true with awful prediction
Still alive corpses lie in the street
Spitting the blood to the god
Dying in flames damned mob
Screaming in pain "This can't be, Oh god"
Maybe theu will understand he was never
But will be too late, so die forever
Differend Armageddon came true under your eyes
Dust comes down when the time came for the sunrise
The final massacre, winds destroy the earth
Impaled heads notify, that winner is the death
05 Dark Age (04:31)
Strange visions dreams my mind,
When I'm walking through the night,
Each time I see the visage of the moon,
Dead cities amongst the sands,
Under the black abyss of seas,
Does madness seize my soul?
The elder race,
From beyond the stars,
Eternal watchers,
Of sphere of no return,
Seven seals,
Of seven mighty gates,
Abominations,
That come true within me.
Here's the key by which I can summon the forgotten world,
Unnatural desire of the knowledge of the gods,
Lust eating up the brain wherein there isn't fear yet,
I break the sleep of spectral friends,
Tear open the unseen, ghostly screen,
I make free for all ways for demons now,
And ruin the tombs of sacred souls....
An epileptic trance is entering my body,
to break all control rule of this mind
A boiling brain addicted to madness,
In which every night is like a horror dream.
Shudder in the dark breath,
Old evil blowing icily from the dark,
Wrapped in a shroud of mystery,
Faint voices from beyond the spaces,
Sample a dark universe,
domain of the strange aces,
With the angry gods,
Best forgotten and left undiscovered.
You know, of course,
I'll be back from the dead,
Blessing the blackness in glory,
Of billions of years,
On collapsed stars,
In rituals of the ancient race!
06 Reign-Carrion (06:32)
Eternal lust created by the ancient gods
Waked up me once again
My stinkin' corpse abandoned the crypts
I waited for this night in
I'm doomed to transmigration of souls
My sufferin' remains and increases
I can't live and die at rest
My life in death is my fate
Terrible curse that blinds my eyes
Fetters of death make me a slave of my cry
Reincarnation through the ages
Made me a God for the mortals
I bear the cross for next sacrifice
To break out of the curse
The endless hunger of human life
And bloody lust to kill
Eternal hate of light and day
Made me a Prince of Night
Terrible curse that blinds my eyes
Fetters of death make me a slave of my cry
I'll be back
You will die
Mortal visions in your head create your fear and haunt your mind
Secret fluids from the past break into brain - you're insane
My damned life is reborn in your flesh
I am your soul
Now you are me
Secular powers of immensity
Freeze your eyes and putrify your blood
Breath of the ages destroys your will
Opened gates of time absorbe your life
In your veins now floods grubby rot
You're deathlike carrion infected with me
Lust and pain
You feel that in your spoilt flesh
Death has broken into your mind
But you're alive
In your veins now floods grubby rot
Your life depends entirely on me
I remember Adam and Eve and time of deluge
I has seen the burning of Sodom and fall of Rome
I was Jesus Christ and man consecrated my name
My unholy ghost is damnation of the livin' Hell
07 Silent Empire (04:12)
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
08 Sothis (03:26)
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
09 Incarnation (03:05)
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
10 Reborn in Flames (04:52)
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!!!
12 Carnal (02:09)
I tasted the fever of Your existence
seems like cold grain to my mouth
I stand aside, I stay away
transmuting my quicksilver blood
KIA - that I may see
ZOS - that I may touch
insipid are the describing words
the self needs no vulgar praise
This worship has no supplications
my rite is to live and do
things naked, pure, of honest lust
the throbbing vortex feeds on it all
Sleep is the best of possible prayers
the winged eyes are blessed to see
downtrodden deception of every torment
transpierced hymens my lust adores
Many images yet one raw flesh
animal steps I love to tread
an ideal point where Time is Space
memory giant sores this journey must heal
Lady of Mourning and her monsters
lay down the scythes for here I come
joyful and priapic my baby soul
a new-born one, ten million years old
13 Fractal Light (02:41)
Persistence of vision is not enough
The common point is a law
All systems do converge at last
The mage's will is done
The fractal light
Chaos controls
The fractal light
No bonds, no checks, no nots
All is permitted now
The sphere glows red in the dark
The navel's point is marked
The fractal light
Chaos controls
The fractal light
Take all the runes, collect the rites
The psychonaut departs right now
The world is open before your arms
Evolve, change, and rise
Persistence of vision is not enough
The common point is a law
All systems do converge at last
The mage's will is done
The fractal light
Chaos controls
The fractal light
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