Metal4 magazine conducted an interview with Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek of Polish death metal veterans VADER at the Metal4splash open-air festival, which took place July 25-27 at Weichelsee in Rotenburg, Germany. You can now watch the chat below.
VADER will enter the studio in November to begin recording its new album for an early 2014 release. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “Abandon All Hope”, “Bring Them To Me” and “Infernal Poetry”.
VADER‘s latest album, “Welcome To The Morbid Reich”, was released in Europe on August 12, 2011 and in North America on September 13, 2011 via Nuclear Blast Records. The effort was recorded at Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland and features the cover artwork of Zbigniew Bielak (DESTRÖYER 666, WATAIN). The band laid down a total of 12 songs for the CD, which was mixed and mastered in May 2011.
Interview by Tarja Virmakari – Photos by Stefano Catalani and Michele Aldeghi
Polish death metallers VADER have just concluded the 2nd part of their European ‘Back To The Black’ Tour; hitting Germany, Denmark, France, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Slovakia – playing their classic albums: “Sothis” and “Black to the Blind” in their entirety. The tour also included several festivals for which VADER had prepared a special concert set.
Metal Shock Finland‘s Tarja Virmakari caught up with Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek at one of VADER‘s Italian shows (on April 25, at The Theatre, in Milan-Italy), and sat down with him talking extensively about the current tour; Peter also spoke widely about the band’s upcoming plans. Join the conversation below.
Check out also Tarja’s earlier interview with Peter, during the 1st leg of Back To The Black -tour, at the end of January 2013: HERE.
The photo-reportage from the entire Milan-show (April 25, 2013, at The Theatre) is coming up soon, stay tuned! You can see some of them below:
Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek, frontman for Polish veterans VADER, recently spoke with Riff-Mag.com. The video interview is available below:
Vader recently announced dates on Back To The Black 2013 tour Part II where they are playing all songs from the cult albums Black To The Blind and Sothis, along with their their biggest hits. MELECHESH are confirmed openers.
Dates include:
April
10 – Flensborg, Germany – Roxy*
11 – Odense, Denmark – Kansas City*
12 – Aarhus, Denmark – Metal Royal Festival*
13 – Nancy, France – Metal Ride Festival
14 – Darmstadt, Germany – Steinbruch Theater
15 – Munich, Germany – Backstage
16 – Zagreb, Croatia – Mochvara
17 – Budapest, Hungary – Blue Hell
18 – Timisoara, Romania – Daos
19 – Bucarest, Romania – Fabrica
20 – Sofia, Bulgaria – RBF
21 – Belgrade, Serbia – Gun
23 – Bari, Italy – Demode
24 – Rome, Italy – Jailbreak
25 – Milano, Italy – The Theatre Live Music
26 – Bern, Switzerland – Kultarena
27 – Annaberg, Germany – Alte Brauerei
28 – Ostrava, Czech Republic – Barrak
30 – Kosice, Slovakia – Collosseum*
Polish death metallers, VADER (formed in 1983), are one of the very few bands that have managed to weave a web of mystery around them. Very few have survived and kept going strong until today. Theirs is the cult of musical brutality and the urge to succeed. We also remember that VADER were the first band ever from behind “the Iron Curtain” to sign to a Western label.
Recently Metal Shock Finland‘s Tarja Virmakari caught up with Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek on VADER‘s “Back to the Black 2013” tour (on January 27, at Circolo Colony, in Brescia-Italy), and sat down with him around the table in the tour bus. The main target of this interview was to unveil something more about “The Man Behind VADER”. If we succeeded, it’s up to you to evaluate. Listen to the interview below, in two parts.
Part 1.
Due to some technical issues of the audio recorder, we lost the part where we were talking about the current “Back to the Black 2013” tour. Please find below a brief extract of the lost part:
Peter, You’re now touring Europe on the 1st leg of “Back to the Black 2013” tour, which kicked off in Germany 10 days ago, playing each night in different countries. How has it gone so far?
Yeah, it has gone very well, nearly all the shows so far have been sold out. From the stage we’ve felt the esteem and affection from our fans. It’s a great feeling, indeed! Even if we’ve played every night true massacre shows, followed by many hours in the tour bus, we feel full of tremendous energy and each show has been exciting and different from the others. The atmosphere of the whole tour crew is great which for sure we’ll remember for a long time. We’re really surprised and excited on how well the tour it’s going.
The set list includes all songs from the cult albums “Black To The Blind” and “Sothis”! How does it feel to bring on stage these two gemstones and masterpieces from your past?
It feels great! When time back i proposed Nuclear Blast about bringing these 2 albums on the tour, they agreed right away. For each night we’ve prepared a 70-minutes set (even more with the encores), playing basically songs from “Black To The Blind” and “Sothis”, in raw versions, as in good old times. Some of the songs have never been played live before. The fans have appreciated it a lot, we’ve met an particularly warm reception. We’ve really felt the spirit of the old times on the past shows. With this setlist we want to thank our fans for the continuous support in all these past years.
Tomorrow we’ll have the only day-off on this tour, and then we’ll play in Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, and then we’ll head to UK for 6 shows, before the tour ends up in the Netherlands, on 10th February. Then in the mid-April will start the second part of the “Back to the Black 2013” tour, which will bring us towards Scandinavian countries, the Balkans, Italy and Spain and several festivals, too. We’ll reveal more details as the tour comes nearer.
The audio came back right after I had asked the question:Tomorrow you’ll have a day-off, how you’re going to spend it?
Part 2.
Vader @Circolo Colony on January 27, 2013 (photo by Tarja Virmakari)
Check out the remaining shows of the 1st leg of the “Back to the Black 2013″ tour:
Recently VADER announced the second part of “Back To The Black Tour 2013” which will kick off in April and go on till the first week of May. VADER will perform on a series of festivals such as Dutch Metal Royal Festival in Aarhus (12.04), Metal Ride Festival in Nancy (13.04), Assymetry Festival in Wroclaw (02.05), Neurotic Festival in Tilburg (03.05) and Bavarian Battle Spring Festival in Rosenheim (04.05). Between 13.04 and 28.04 VADER will host a special guest on tour – MELECHESH – and also support bands.
Colombia’s El Santuario Del Rock recently conducted an interview withguitarist/vocalist Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek of Polish extreme metal veterans VADER. You can now listen to the chat HERE. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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