Vader – Reborn in Chaos (1997)

Although this album recently got released, the Committee got ahold of it and mucked up the production and changed the tracks. You want the original 1996 version which compiled demos from Vader in the years leading up to The Ultimate Incantation.

Fans of Slayer, Massacra, and early Sepultura will notice the original style of death metal here: fast tremolo riffs forming phrasal through-composed songs consisting of contrasting and evolving themes. Celtic Frost structure, Slayer riffs, Bathory atmosphere, Sodom energy.

Reviewers call this style “chaotic” but in fact it is anything but; the band develops a theme from a riff and then elucidates it with a conversation and journey expressed in the conflict and growth of those shapes and notions, including the dark sensation of realism and transcendence they evoke.

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34 thoughts on “Vader – Reborn in Chaos (1997)”

  1. CLICK CLICK BOOM says:

    I’d be like a team mascot in a tribe where the successful hunters eat and the other guys starve to death. I’d be in the losers faces going “Aw what’s a matter, no foody in mouthy? Should’ve stepped up to the plate, BITCH! Too bad your ass got SAACKED” then I’d punch him in the stomach and double him over, do a touchdown dance and run down the row of the winners with my hand out getting high fives going “MAKE SOME NOOOISE!” Then Limp bizkit starts playing, “CLICK CLICK BOOM!” And I’d run by and pull a fat guys pants down so he could bare ass fart in a starving guy’s face. Then I’d lasso all their heads into one giant noose and tie it to the back of my dirt bike and whip them around corners into mailboxes, streetlights, into storm drains, through cactus fields, then finally I’d do an evil knievel style jump over the grand canyon and cut the rope halfway across so they fall like Wil-e Coyote to the canyon floor, stirring up a plume of dust that would reflect in my sunglasses as I look back, then I’d take them off and go “Heh heh. Damn I’m good”

    1. the o-ring warning says:

      you will be shot in your faggot head 3 days from now

      1. Sphinctral Christ says:

        The invasion of metal by emo punkers led to Reddit metal.

    2. Pierced from Within Dee’s Nutts says:

      I love that for you!

      1. Christ Denied says:

        I love sodomy!

  2. Curious says:

    What does phrasal mean? Can you give examples from these songs with timestamps?

    1. Flying Kites says:

      How old is Stevens going to be when he reviews Beethoven?

      What is “through-composed?” Maybe we need a lexiography thing here.

      1. Hessian Murderer of Black Death says:

        Through composed means that every part of the music was given attention. If you write a verse and a chorus and then repeat them, you did not through compose. You composed two modules and copy pasted them to assemble the music.

        If you write a guitar solo that doesn’t repeat itself, you through composed.

        1. BiTch TiTs 4 USA says:

          Through-composed means you write the whole song as an evolving melody. The riffs are not just “in key” like for untermensch semite music like jazz, they have to form part of an internal conversation in the song, this is why normy music always sounds so empty, it’s just rhythm and harmony.

          1. physiology of mind says:

            probably you just have no ass

          2. Crionics says:

            Just rhythm and harmony. Fuckwit.

            1. Misanthropic Celestial Harmony says:

              That’s why they called it “rhythm & blues” or “rhythm music” back in the roaring 20s.

          3. Hessian Murderer of Black Death says:

            Bitch tits 4 USA,

            what is the definition of a phrase? Not just musically, but in general

            1. BiTch TiTs 4 USA says:

              What does a nigga, a wigga, or a nilla do when he needs a definition? You look at the fuckeen dictionary bro.

              phrase, n.

              3: a short musical thought typically two to four measures long closing with a cadence
              4: a word or group of words forming a syntactic constituent with a single grammatical function
              an adverbial phrase
              5: a series of dance movements comprising a section of a pattern

              You could even use the fancypants dictionary that the classical snobs use.

              phrase, n.

              1: a group of two or more words that express a single idea but do not usually form a complete sentence

              2: a brief expression that is commonly used

              3 music: a short section of a longer piece of music

              1. Hessian Murderer of Black Death says:

                The dictionary left me none the wiser. I was hoping you would have more wisdom and insight.

              2. Hessian Murderer of Black Death says:

                That generic ass definition doesn’t give me shit that I didn’t already know

          4. Prince says:

            Man overboard

    2. Nate says:

      You guys totally got ’em

  3. CLICK CLICK BOOM says:

    /heavy sarcasm /dark humor

  4. Dionysus, Gay Icon says:

    I believe there was an issue with the original pressings of this release. The demos are supposed to be in chronological order.

  5. decapitated demos says:

    So what’s your cut off point for Vader these days?

    1. I listen up through Sothis and the one-track live album, but really the first album is the great one, and the demos compilation is all of that material in a more Slayery format, so…

      1. decapitated demos says:

        Yes, first album is always a trip.

        1. De Profundis had its moments but seemed rushed, the second half more so. This is why bands need to escape the label cycle: the best releases are incubated like ancient demons, hatched from caves after what feels like thousands of years of rumination…

  6. Gen Erik says:

    The whole with Star Wars is it’s simplistic black & white ethical scheme. Albums such as this do nothing to change the situation.

  7. Rein Inhel says:

    next year these racist polaks plan to release the prequel, “Born in Order”

    1. I admire their consistency. I remember listening to Black to the Blind back in the day and thinking it was verging into speed metal territory but had a lot more musicality than most. They did not go the path of Behemoth, and for this I think they deserve eternal hails.

  8. mlotek says:

    VADER demos were pretty cool to get by surprise in a tape trade, so buying the first CD press of it when it happened way after, was a no-brainer.

    A lot of faggots and wiggers in the comments here.

    1. Redditors are the waste humans that aggregate when civilizations die. They are as you note effete but poseurs and have a secret, nasty opportunism hidden behind all that novelty-seeking and altruistic empathy. Their most evident trait is that they are narcissists or anarchists like most Dunning-Kruger cases. This is why we use the acronym MASSA for Make Anarchists Subjugated Serfs Again because these people must be enslaved, whipped, and sodomized at the altar of their Arabic god and his Judaic morality.

      1. Wallflower says:

        You’re talking about posers (defective worker drones) not anarchists (artists)

        1. Anarchists are just a variety of drone. They are unrelated to actual art.

          1. Heliogabalus says:

            The good king and the true anarchist, for whom government is impossible, are the same.

            ‘The errors of a wise man make your life, rather than the perfections of a fool.’
            -Blake

            1. Gibberish. Kings are the opposite of anarchists. They simply refuse to micromanage like the State does.

              1. Woof says:

                Even if I were to slurp up all the gibberish ever put to paper, shit it out and light it on fire, it would never burn as bright as the nova of my inclinations, inspirations and tribulations, and reason has served the completion of my bewilderment, finally and utterly.

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