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Short of Vaders newest release (impressions in blood) this is Vaders most aggressive disc. There isn’t a track on here that won’t make you want to drive on the sidewalk. Plenty of anger…plenty of blasting…plenty of straight up nasty thrashing from the Polish death pedallers. My only beef with this disc…and even a few other Vader discs…is the mix of the drums. The drums are just a bit overpowering in the mix and a little too digital sounding. Past that this is good, furious death metal.
You know the warnings they give you about drugs?? Eventually you need more and more and then harder and harder to give you that high again?? Well that’s how it is with my metal… as time goes on I need my metal to get harder and more extreme to satisfy me. This CD is for the die-hard metal addict needing the super heavy duty stuff–it’s hard as hell and right from the first track “Wings” it’s like being thrown against a wall. The drums are hit harder than David Ortiz hits a baseball– wow…. HIGHLY recommended!
Yeah, yeah, I know, I should be loving this band, as it combines European style death metal with New York style death metal with a touch of brutality, but there is something that just doesnt click for me. It may be Peter’s lame growls, or the lack of tight riffs, but I just cant seem to get into this band. I can see why people like this band, but like Behemoths new album, it ends up being an overhyped, overrated, and boring ideal.
I gave this 1 star for Vader being one of the first bands out of the Soviet Union, 1 star for Doc being an amazing drummer, and 1 star for not being metalcore.
Overall, I suggest Immolation and fellow Poles Decapitated over this.
After taking an unusually long three years off after the release of 1997’s “Black to the Blind,” Vader, who are one of Poland’s top two exports (the other being Behemoth), blasted back onto the scene with an even angrier and heavier sound than ever heard before. That’s right, folks, 2000’s “Litany” is Vader’s heaviest album to date.
With a running time clocking in at just over thirty minutes, this is a very short, concise, and compact affair. In fact, if anything hinders “Litany,” it’s that it’s all over a bit too quickly. But on the plus side, the album doesn’t have trouble holding your attention for its duration because these eleven songs never lose their focus or drift into bloated or overlong mini-epic territory.
Vader’s musicianship here is, as always, airtight. Peter belts his deep yet still mostly intelligible vocals over a thunderous and uncompromising maelstrom of Slayer-inspired riffs, scorching leads, occasional solos, and impeccable, pummeling blast beats (“Doc” Raczkowski contributes some of his all-time fastest, most technical, and all-around best drumming to this record.)
The onslaught begins with the classic Vader pound of “Wings,” and continues through the jackhammering, Terrorizer-esque blasting of “The One Made Of Dreams” before the listener is allowed to catch a breath. Track three, “Xeper,” is a much more laid-back piece with great, crunching riffs, catchy, galloping beat, and memorable spoken-word chorus. Similarly, the title track and “The Calling” also begin with restrained tempos (before gradually working up a lot of speed and momentum.) However, on the flip side, the breakneck “Cold Demons,” “North” (which is as relentless as a hailstorm of grenades), and “A World Of Hurt” (which is a skull-crushing, grindcore-worthy sneak attack that’s less than two minutes long), are all bludgeoning, pedal-to-the-metal speedsters from beginning to end. Elsewhere, “Forwards To Die!!!” and “The World Made Of Flesh” are two scorching riff monsters (the latter is also of note for its fairly ripping guitar solo); and the set closer, “The Final Massacre,” boasts more excellent riffs and drumming, as well as some well-placed tempo shifts and a couple of blazing, careening solos.
It could stand to have another song or two, but all in all, “Litany” is yet another Grade A slab of satisfying, terrifically brutal, and technically flawless death metal from a band that seems incapable of making anything else. Recommended.
I have been listening to Vader for a long time and this is the Vader set to rule all others. All of these songs have been re-recorded and the production is killer. I don’t care if fans own the previous releases with these tracks, they will want to get this set. It’s about time that Vader gets the production work that they deserve. You are able to hear everything from the incredible drumming, fantastic solos and vocals with complete clarity. This two disc set has a great amount of variety that spans their career up to this point. I could have picked a few more tracks that I would have liked to have heard on this release, as with any “best of”, but they did a great job of compiling this set. It is a great value as well, I would have paid the same price for EACH of these discs. Bottom line is, fans will not be disappointed.
I will agree with the others on this one. This cd is incredible. One of the best cd’s i ever heard. This coming from a huge Slayer fan.
Vader really knows how to rip it up. I saw at least two songs on the first disc that I have heard before “Blood of Kingu” and “Black to the Blind” that they did on 1998’s “Live In Japan”. whether or not I have heard these songs before, they are awesome.
I’d never heard of Vader until my son loaned me disk two of their album XXV. I’ve ordered the whole thing on the strength of that CD. Having heard only half this album I’d still rate it as one of the top metal albums of the last 10 years. This is what the power and the glory is all about. From th end of Track 5 through most of track 10 of disk 2 may well be the best four song (and pieces) series in all of metal, certainly within the last ten to fifteen years.
Vader reminds me a bit of Slayer, but with more of what I loved Slayer for. Thus my title, Super Slayer.
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.
I have only heard 3 of Vade’s albums, and this one is without a doubt the best of the 3. It is also the first one I heard. The other 2 I heard are The Beast and De Profundis. The Beast sounds a bit like Morbid Angel on their Domination album only faster. But The Ultimate Incantation is definetely Pure Vader. I think that most bands only make one album that is really really good, and they either do it with their debut or some time down the track when they gain experience, but Vader had all the experience when they released their debut, and they had more energy and imagination aswell. This is one of those classic death metal albums that you have to have in your collection if you’re a fan of 90’s death metal that is. Most of the death metal released in the 90’s was superb, but there was probably only one album from each band that stood out for particular listeners. I have always liked a band’s debut more than later efforts except for a few bands that actually got better with time like Sinister with their Hate album which is in my opinion their best release and Morbid Angel’s Domination, but then Morbid Angel also did very well on their debut Alters Of Madness aswell, though they grew into a larger beast later with Domination. It’s just like how Metallica’s debut Kill Em All is their most liked, but so is the black album, but I also like Ride The Lightning aswell, maybe even more. It’s just personal taste really. But it does also have a lot to do with how much effort was put into the album, and Vader’s The Ultimate Incantation seems to me that Vader put a lot more effort and energy into than the the other 3 albums I’ve heard. I suspect that they have not and will not ever release a cd as powerful, as imaginative, as atmospheric or as epic as The Ultimate Incantation.
The production is typically early 90’s with a low treble sound and much of that blocked sound that sounds like you’re listening to it from inside a closed box while the stereo is outside the box. Well, I happen to like this sound very much and admire all early 90’s death metal that have this sound incorporated into their production. Some bands had too much treble, but that is the other side of the scale. Really when it comes down to the core it doesn’t really matter about production as much as the skill of the band, and Vader have the skills to make some of the most exhilerating death metal ever produced.
When I listen to this album I feel like I’m being taken on a journey much like a movie. I can’t explain in words what the journey looks like in my head, but it is like the ultimate movie that can change with every listen but also comes back to the original feelings I get when I listen to it.
Every track on this album is 5 stars. I never skip a track, especially because skipping tracks in this album defeats the purpose of the story telling, it’s like an epic tale being told and you must not miss out on a chapter or the rest will not make as much sence.
This is one of the deepest and most image provoking albums of all time. Get it, and then prepare to journey through Vader’s astonishing worlds of chaos, reincarnation, sorcery, death, a state of mind unimagined.
This is the only album that has the power to take your mind and thoughts to another world that is like the hell that we death metal fans dream of as our home.
If you don’t have this cd and you are a death metal fan, I feel sorry for you, because you my friend are missing out on The Ultimate Incantation.
Vader is definitely a respectable death metal band despite the age of this album. Great music all around, drums, guitar, vocals, even the bass shines. For those who believe all music is lyrics, these guys know what they’re doing. They try for pure evil in a way that even Cannibal Corpse could respect. A good example is the begining of the invocation of Cthulhu in “Testimony” with the lines in between “Conquer your fear, chant incantation, and call the ancient ones.” This is a great cd, over a decade old; which I only mention seeing how I’m the first one to post a review. I’d hate to think I’m the only person out here with this cd, so if you’re thinking about buying it they’re only charging like four bucks, buy it. It’s worth it, it’s worth more than that, this is a steal.
Vader may not be the most original band on the planet, but they’re so good at this style that they can get away with it. There is certainly more brutal death metal out there. In fact, this album is actually quite catchy! This is part of what makes Vader so effective. This album is clearly crafted with honesty as opposed to an attempt at sounding as “extreme” and “brutal” as possible.
Comparisons with Morbid Angel are obvious and this album shares many similarities with “Covenant”. Saying that should be enough to tell you whether or not you will like this.
Wow this album is amazing. Do I have to say anything else? It’s Vader. You already know what it sounds like. Can you believe this band has been around since 1983? Still in top form. Just wow. Crushing, brutal, etc… just plain excellent.
Necropolis shows Vader’s return to awesome form. This is the best album since Back to the Blind or De Profundis. Vader does an excellent job of making Necropolis fun to listen to with longer/shorter/longer arrangement of songs plus the vocals have gotten more tangible. Standout tracks – “Devilizer”, “Rise of the Undead”, “Blast”, “Dark Heart”, “Anger”, and “When the Sun Drowns in Dark”.
Coming off of the heals of “Impressions in Blood”, I didn’t know what to expect from a new Vader album. “Necropolis” represents a much more refined and focused musical venture. There is not a lot of experimentation here and absolutely no sparkle and shine. It is pure, dark hatred. I was surprisingly pleased with this album. For years Vader was always a peripheral band, but this work has pushed them into the forefront of my listening cycle.
By far, this is the best Vader album since Black to the Blind or Live in Japan. Though, the lineup has changed, you can still hear it’s still Vader. I dare to say that changing the band members is the best thing that Peter could have done. I guess there will be a lot comparisons to Behemoth’s new CD – pointless in my opinion. Vader plays, I would say, more traditionally, while Behemoth is more extreme right now.
I’ve listened few times to the whole record, and all I can say is that I’ve found all the things that I like in Vader’s music. No weak moments. Again, the new band members seem to be better suited for Vader’s style. Also, the album includes two covers – ‘Black Metal’ and ‘Fight Fire With Fire’. Some may argue that it’s not very original, but it’s also part of Vader. They’ve been recording covers since forever, and they’ve always done it great.
If you’re looking for classic death/thrash, this is a must have for you.
Coming off of the heals of “Impressions in Blood”, I didn’t know what to expect from a new Vader album. “Necropolis” represents a much more refined and focused musical venture. There is not a lot of experimentation here and absolutely no sparkle and shine. It is pure, dark hatred. I was surprisingly pleased with this album. For years Vader was always a peripheral band, but this work has pushed them into the forefront of my listening cycle.