Vader - Iron Times

Published August 31 2016

*=Staff's pick	Parabellum Prayer To The God Of War* Piesc I Stal* Overkill

Genre	Death Metal	Peter	Vocals
Tracks	4	Peter	Guitar
Running time	13 Min.	Spider	Guitar
Label	Nuclear Blast	Hal	Bass
Release	August 12, 2016	James	Drums
Country	Poland	-	Keyboard
Producer	Peter
Similar artists	Hate, Morbid Angel

The extremely productive metal machine Vader is on it again. As a taster before the full length album which is due for release in November we get an EP with four songs. With closing in to 35 years in the business, main man, guitarist, vocalist and song writer Peter is showing no signs of slowing down one bit. They tour massively year after year and still release very good and fresh albums. The last ones, Welcome To The Morbid Reich (2011) and Tibi Et Igni (2014), are enough proof.

Parabellum is a standard, fast paced and good Vader song in all aspects without anything to complain about, but not to overly praise either. Prayer To The God Of War starts the same way and is mostly uptempo but includes a few touches of thrash metal elements along the way, which is when Vader usually gets a great flow going, and Piesc I Stal have a very slow, dark and quite distinct heavy metal touch to it. Overkill is a Motörhead cover and sounds exactly like you could expect.

This is overall an enjoyable and satisfying release that shows that the hunger, production and vocals are still there, but like most EP's I don't think it represents the coming album well. I have the feeling it will be even better.

See also review of: Tibi Et Igni , Necropolis , XXV , And Blood Was Shed In Warsaw , Impressions In Blood , The Beast , Blood

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	7	7,5	8	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tommy