Quote Originally Posted by Soeru
Dude, Litany was what got me hooked to Vader too. Get all of their albums of course, but I really like The Ultimate Incantion, Sothis, Black to the Blind, and their all-cover-songs album Future of the Past(which is so fuckin awesome. They cover Morbid Angel, Possessed, Terrorizer, Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Slayer, Anti-Nowhere League, Depeche Mode, and Mayhem on that CD!). Their demo is extremely good too.
Fucking A. Litany gets better the more I listen to it. "Wings", "The Calling" and "Litany" are all first class metal. I can't have enough of this shit.

Obituary's "Cause of Death" reminds me of Vader a LOT. Dies Irae has many members of Vader in the band, they sound very similar, but a bit less thrashy and more on the death/black side, very evil shit. Check out the songs "Lion of Knowledge" and "Horde of Angry Demons", pure Polish death metal. And if you like Vader you'll love Decapitated, but I think most people here already listen to them by now. If not, go grab "Nihility" and "Winds of Creation", before I go ballistic on your ass! Can't wait to go see them next month with Vader, Cryptopsy, and Suffo. Joy...
I've been getting into a lot of the less melodic death metal lately. I rediscovered what a brilliant masterpiece Carcass's Heartwork is and been getting into more technical bands such as Melechesh, Avulsed and Demilich. I've been meaning to check Decapitated recently, and now that you gave me the go sign, I think I'll do just that.

Why would you say that Vader are reminiscent of AA? I don't think they sound like them at all... They do have a lot of tremolo-picked("spaghetti") riffs, more than most DM bands, but that's about all they share in common I think. Speaking of AA, I CAN'T stop listening to Versus the World and Once Sent from a Golden Hall, and The Crusher. Has anyone listened to the Versus the World bonus CD on the re-release? Holy fuck, it has the coolest bonus tracks on it like a German version of "Victorious March" and this awesome oldschool unreleased track: "The Mighty Doors of the Speargod's Hall".
Not much in terms of lyrical content, but the tremolo oriented riffs and drum pounds immediately reminded me of the Norsemen on first listen. Not much, but there's a slight AA sound to their style.

I love AA's lyrics, "Thousand Years of Oppression", "Bastards of a Lying Breed", and "The Sound of Eight Hooves" have some really cool ones.
Fate of Norns, the title track of the latest albums is probably my favourite AA song in terms of lyrics. Pure poetry. Across the Rainbow Bridge is also one of the better written AA songs.


Kind of off-topic, but how many of you have long hair? Like how long/what kind/etc. Mine extends around the end of my rib-cage/center of my back, pretty long. Very straight, dark brown, br00t3l.
I had mine at around shoulder length, light brown, mildly waved, almost like Hansi's hair in the Imaginations Through the Looking Glass DVD. I'm growing it back now, since I had to cut it for school.