At the end of April the Polish legendary death metal icons VADER entered the Hertz Studio to record their new album “The Empire”, set to be released by Nuclear Blast on September 23rd 2016 in Europe. Prior to the full-length album release, VADER will unleash a mini-album “Iron Times” consisting 4 songs. To let their fans to follow the recording progress and more, VADER recently launched a new website “Imperial News”.

Recording session in Olsztyn (from left: Witek, Peter and Szymon)

Read below Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek‘s new studio update:

“Next song on  “Iron Times” EP is not quite a cover. I wrote it for the band PanzerX 10 years ago. This Heavy Metal project was pretty successful combination of musicians from different Metal generations and besides me They were: Grzegorz Kupczyk (Turbo, Ceti), Spider and Witek Kiełtyka (Decapitated), who died in accident in 2007. We have recorded a bunch of songs in Olsztyn, which were released then by MMP as “Steel Fist” mini album. The whole studio session was engineered by our Friend Szymon Czech (who died in 2012). VADER version is heavier and I wrote new text…in Polish (that’s why the title is now “Stal i Piesc”). This very typical battle song tells about “clash of steel titans” times and fulfills “Iron Times” perfectly. “

The original “Steel Fist” from 2006 below:

Just recently VADER announced their busy Summer Festival season. See the full list below:

17.06.2016 (F) – Hellfest OA
23.06.2016 (H) – Balatonszemes / RockPart’16
25.06.2016 (PL) – Wągrowiec Rock / Noc festiwal
01.07.2016 (D) – With Full Force Open Air
09.07.2016  (Ind) – Bangalore OA Fest
15.07.2016 (CZ) – Obscene Extreme Fest
16.07.2016 (S) – Gavle / Gefle Metal Festival
30.07.2016 (D) – Nord Open Air
04.08.2016 (D) – Wacken  Open Air
06.08.2015 (CZ) – Ostrava / Ostrava v plamenech Fest
17.08.2016 (D) – SummerBreeze OA
19.08.2016 (PL) – Cieszanów / Cieszanów Rock Festival
27.08.2016 (PL) – Wałbrzych / Metal Mine Fest

More information at:
http://vadernews.pl | http://www.vader.pl | http://www.facebook.com/vader | http://www.facebook.com/vaderempirewebstore