And then he said, "Luke, I am your father..." Oops, wrong Vader. This Vader is the Polish metal band, and Metal Mind Productions will be releasing their lastest DVD next month. "The DVD entitled And Blood Was Shed In Warsaw will feature the footage from the band's fantastic concert at Stodola Club in February 2007, which was the final stop of the tour promoting their latest album Impressions In Blood. The show was filmed with 7 cameras so you can expect a truly amazing recording with great lights and dynamic shots - over 80 min. of brutal, fast, uncompromising death metal!! [m/ - .ed] As a special surprise for the fans, the concert featured also a guest appearance of Orion: a member of two other great Polish metal acts: Vesania & Behemoth.

"The DVD is scheduled for release on 15th October in Europe and on 5th November in USA (via MVD) and will also include: fully animated menu, band bio, discography, interview with Peter, brand new video clip 'Sword Of The Witcher' (taken from the forthcoming RPG game The Witcher), desktop images, photo gallery, weblinks, and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. [The] And Blood Was Shed In Warsaw DVD will be also available in a special DVD+CD limited swing case edition! It's a must have for fans of good quality metal music!

"Vader was the first death metal band from behind the Iron Curtain to succeed on the world's most important music markets. Their Morbid Reich demo from 1990 is considered the best selling demo tape in the history of death metal. In their career, Vader did a great number of tours, made lots of festival appearances and played gigs with top metal bands such as Bolt Thrower, Deicide, Metallica, Krisiun, Malevolent Creation, Slayer, Samael, Anathema, Testament, Marduk, Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, Vital Remains, and Kreator, to mention only a few? Year 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Vader's existence." [May the force... sorry -ed.]

DVD Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. ShadowFear
3. Sothis
4. Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead)
5. Warlords
6. Silent Empire
7. Blood Of Kingu
8. Out Of The Deep
9. Carnal
10. Dark Age
11. Black To The Blind
12. Intro: Para Bellum
13. This Is the War
14. Lead Us
15. What Colour Is Your Blood
16. Epitaph
17. Cold Demons
18. Predator
19. Wings
20. Wyrocznia

Bonus video clips: "Sword Of The Witcher," "Helleluyah (God Is Dead)" - taken from CD Impressions In Blood (Regain Records)

Also includes: - Animated menu
- Interview with Peter
- Photo gallery
- Band history
- Discography
- Desktop images
- Weblinks
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound

CD Tracklisting (swing case edition only)

1. Intro
2. ShadowFear
3. Sothis
4. Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead)
5. Warlords
6. Silent Empire
7. Blood Of Kingu 8. Out Of The Deep
9. Carnal
10. Dark Age
11. Black To The Blind
12. Intro: Para Bellum
13. This Is the War
14. Lead Us
15. What Colour Is Your Blood
16. Epitaph
17. Cold Demons
18. Predator
19. Wings
20. Wyrocznia

Total running time: approx. 105 min. (DVD) + 70 min. (CD)

"At the moment Vader is working hard on band's future releases and upcoming tours. On their official website (www.vader.pl) Peter (guitars, vocals) shares some details on band's new DVD, track, video clip, anniversary album and tour:

(?) If you already noticed, there is new DVD gonna be released soon. The show was recorded in the club 'Stodola' in Warsaw. That's why the title came from (...and Blood Was Shed In Warsaw). The main part of the DVD are the songs from our last releases, BUT ... there are some rarities on this material like 'Sword Of The Witcher'! What the Hell is that? There's CD-Projekt RED who work on PC games and who asked us to compose a song, which is gonna be kinda 'trailer-song' for Their upcoming game. The title of the game is The Witcher and this is pretty fresh RPG in the fantastic, filled with brutality and magic world of the Witcher (from the Sapkowski novels). More then awesome graphics are made by world famous Mr. Baginski (1st prize ..... for 'Cathedral') and give the game revolutionary character indeed! We said 'yes!' and recorded the song in May in Hertz Studio. 'The Sword Of The Witcher' is absolutely different piece of music compared to previous Vader works but still metal full of Fire, beasts, warriors and ... Blood!!! We were but afraid that, because of many instruments recorded, there will be a problem to play this song alive. However-thanx to new technology we are able to do it and we plan to add this Witcher-song to the set list on the upcoming Blitzkrieg IV-2. At 10 July in Bolkov Castle we have realized a video clip to 'Sword Of The Witcher' with cooperation with Intermedia. There are the same guys, who were working on "Hellelujah !!!!" video clip recently... This new picture will be available on DVD as well. We didn't have too much time to work with this clip, but... it's always nice to see something so different then 'This Is The War' or just mentioned 'Hellelujah !!!.' Fire, Steel and Magic !!!!!!!! What else? In few days we finalize recordings of the anniversary album entitled XXV. This one will include 25 Vader hits from early days re-recorded again. There will be some rarities on the limited special edition as well.... We're also practicing with new set for the Blitz' IV/2...You know the bands already so I can give you some information, that there'll be different set in the cities [where] we played in last year and the new places on tour. We start with some shows in Russia in mid of September...

"Vader has also uploaded 2 mp3 files with songs: "Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead)" and "Warlords" taken from the upcoming DVD. You can download the tracks here: www.vader.pl/mp-e.html.

"The [artwork for] ...And Blood Was Shed in Warsaw DVD [...] was done by young and very talented Brazilian artist Marcelo HVC, known from great works for such bands as Gorgoroth, Lord Belial, Necrophagia to name a few... Check his works on www.myspace.com/poisonedtoreality."