Dans notre chute...

Ahh, Vlad Tepes, a band known for limiting their releases to ridiculously low numbers, making it literally impossible to find copies of them. But they were also known for making truly excellent BM.

The Dans Notre Chute demo is nearly as good as Celtic Poetry, with a few songs even surpassing it. The first thing I noticed when I heard this was how "good" the sound was, of course good doesn't mean CoF, but good by LLN standards. Everything is pretty audible in the mix, although I would like to hear the bass more, but that's just nitpicking. There is a fuzz or static sound that is constant throughout the course of the album, but that doesn't really distract you from the overall material present here. The songs are what you would expect from VT, but something like Our Soul's Worries or Nos Terribles Pensees have something special to them, something different. To me, the standout track is definately the aformentioned Our Soul's Worries or Tepes - The Unweeping, with its epic sounding intro riff or its ugly mid riff. I also believe that it is Our Soul's Worries that has some actual clean singing in it, but to be honest, it sounds rather "goofy" for lack of a better word.

Some of these songs can be found on other VT demos such as Raven's Hike and Abyssic and Funeral Symphony, which is something I never understood about VT. They loved to put old songs on almost ever new demo they released. Oh well.

Overall, I believe it is in the most obscure and lesser known demos that you will find Vlad Tepes' best material. This, Into Frosty Madness, Brouilons I, Winter Rehearsal 1993, and La Morte Lune, especially the second version of the latter. I was lucky enough to get a copy of this back when it was released, and also most of VT other demos too, but for those of you who don't have any LLN or VT releases, sorry but you won't be able to find them anywhere on the face of the earth, atleast not originals anyway. No, originals are long gone.