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Black vinyl with gatefold cover, 8-page booklet and printed innersleeve

Vader’s first cover album “Future Of The Past”, released in 1996, showed that Vader were damn good when it came to performing other bands music. When this Part 2 album came out in 2015 the band decided to take a complete different route. Instead of doing covers by the major thrash and death acts like on the first they turned around and checked the Polish scene (and a cover from Checkoslovakia). For most metal heads this means that many of the tracks are obscurities that we havent heard the original versions of but at the same time it gives us a damn good luck of what happened in the Polish scene back in the 80s and 90s and for that i must say that this volume is as much a winner as the first volume. The album begins with ‘Ostatni Diakon (The Last Deacon)’ an Exorcist (Poland) cover from 2014‘s ‘Utterances Of Going Forth By Day’. The Vader version is much crisper and clearer, with a polished edge I prefer along with great riffing and shredding, I really like this version. ‘Noc Demona (Night of the Demon)’ is a cover of the now defunct Ghost (Poland), and again Vader have added a sharper edge to an obscure death metal classic. In fairness to Ghost, this was from their third demo released in 1989, so a better quality is now expected. It more than does the original justice. ’Necronomicon’ from 1991’s ‘The Time Before Time’, by Polish Death Metal quartet Imperator, is the next cover, and stands very true to the original. Nicely done. Czech death Thrashers ‘Krabathor’, a band still going strong after over thirty years, are the next band to be covered, with their track ’Totalni destrukce’ from their 1988, nine track demo ‘Total Destruction’. Here Vader add slightly sharper edges to an underground classic but still keep it suitably rough and brutal. Sen schizofrenika (The Dream Of A Schizophrenic) the title track from the 2010 full length by Heavy/Thrash metallers, Markiz de Sade. This cover is a brave and bold choice, but holds true to the punchy and powerful delivery of the original. Next up for the ‘Vader’ treatment is ‘The Beginning Of Darkness’ from the 1987 demo ‘Eternal Condemnation ’by Polish Death/Thrash outfit, ‘Merciless Death’. It doesn’t have that dirty squeal of the original that will appeal to purists, but I think this more refined version sounds utterly stunning, particularly with higher quality production. A slightly different choice is, the short sharp shock, at around the one minute duration, ‘Ostatni Sakrament (Last Sacrament)’ from the 1989 demo by Polish Speed/Black metal quartet Scarecrow. Here, Vader manage to capture the raw, high speed intensity perfectly. The vocals are not quite as harsh, but that’s not really vocalist Piotr’s style, having a deeper, richer vocal range. The original version of ‘No Return’ by Polish Grindcore outfit ‘Slashing Death’ from their ’Irrevocably And With No Hope’ 1989 demo was a short, sharp, and insane chunk of Grindcore, and Vader do make a reasonable job replicating this superb, muzzy, dirty sound. This is Vader like you have never heard them before. Certain to be another challenge to cover well is ‘Czas Apokalipsy (Apocalypse Now)’ by Polish Thrashers ‘Slaughter‘, from their 1989 demo ‘Into The Darkness’. The original was a very raw offering, with quite indecipherable vocals, but Piotr has got the vocal delivery spot on. It does have a touch more clarity , probably due to better production, but the intonation is perfect, as is the rest of the track. I really can’t fault this release so far at all. ‘Necromaniac’ featured originally on the ‘Out Of Sanity’ demo 1990 by the cult Polish raw Death Metal band Thanatos. The original is superb and still stands up to scrutiny today. Vader’s version is very good, but just a little too clean. On this occasion, I prefer the original. The original ‘Czarny Aniol (A Black Angel)’ by Polish band Thrasher Death, from 1988 demo ‘Women Die’, was a pretty insane offering, and before listening to the cover I wondered just how Vader would cope with a track quite this mental. They wisely haven’t tried to replicate that level of insanity but have gone for an equally fast but more sensible rendition that works well. The final offering is’ Wyrocznia (Oracle)’ by Polish heavy/speed black metal band ’Kat ’ from their 1986 full length ‘666’. On this version, Vader win hands down for me, as on the original, vocal delivery just didn’t work for me. Vader has all the raw riffing, but way better vocals. Personally, I think that ‘Future Of The Past II – Hell In The East’ is a superb collection of reasonably obscure covers, and hopefully it will give the original bands some more fans

Track list:
1. Ostatni Diakon-Exorcist cover
2. Noc Demona-Ghost cover
3. Necronomicon-Imperator cover
4. Totalni Destrukce-Krabathor cover
5. Sen Schizofrenika-Markiz de Sade cover
6. The Beginning Of Darkness-Merciless Death cover
7. Ostatni Sakrament-Scarecrow cover
8. No Return-Slashing Death cover
9. Czas Apokalipsy-Slaughter cover
10. Necromaniac-Thanatos cover
11. Czarny Aniol-Thrasher Death cover
12. Wyrocznia-Kat cover