Polish death metal stalwarts VADER have issued the following update:

"Summer season comes to an end. This week Vader will play the last series of gigs before band's upcoming regular tournees - Blitzkrieg 5 in Poland and Funeral Nation Tour 2009 in Europe.

Recently, PANZER DIVISION appeared on Hunterfest, when Vader shared the stage together with MOTÖRHEAD and TARJA TURUNEN. Gallery of pics from the fest is available on our site. Don't forget to visit our YouTube channel and watch some footage from the fest.

Band's mainman Peter checks in: "Welcome Metal Maniacs!!!! Vader - as you see - is still on the road. Two controversial but great festivals in Kiev (Ukraine) with SODOM and ARCH ENEMY and in Poland (Hunterfest) with Motörhead and Tarja are already behind us. Now we fly to southern Italy to take a part on Agglutiantion Festival and then on Summer Breeze in Germany. Those will be last bigger concerts before upcoming Blitzkrieg V tour. August 21st is an important day for us: premiere of Necropolis'and a week later debut of new album alive!!!

On the tour we plan to play almost the whole new album, also very early Vader songs from mid 80's, when the band was singing in Polish. There will be of course bunch of classic "hits" as well.

In few days we start also shots for new video clip to the song 'Never Say My Name'. This is gonna be a miniature inspired by bestseller by Patrick Graham's Evangile Selon Satan. An alternative death of messiah, who curse humans before his death on the cross and choose Hell instead of Heaven... Premiere in September. See You around ...soon!!!!"

In other news, (below) you can watch a rare archive footage from the first edition of famous Polish metal festival called Metalmania. The footage includes also a short interview with Peter. It's available in Polish language only but definitely worth checking out!