There are very few bands that have managed to maintain a web of mystery around them. Even fewer have survived and remained strong through decades of musical change. Vader were the first band from behind the "Iron Curtain" to sign to a Western label, and, almost three decades later, they refuse to relent in their aggressive, warlust- tinged attack. This year started with a long period of silence while the band prepared to record their latest masterpiece in Studio Hertz in Bialystok, Poland. Welcome to the Morbid Reich is the culmination of these intense sessions, and is their second album for Nuclear Blast Records