After a self-released rehearsal tape, the demo-tape War Funeral March (1994) was released on the American market by Full Moon Productions. It was followed the next year by March to the Black Holocaust, a split release with fellow Black Legions act Bèlkètre, issued on the French Embassy Productions.
Between May and July 1995, Vlad Tepes recorded Dans Notre Chute..., described as the third official demo. It was followed in November by a demo entitled Black Legions Metal, on which Vlad Tepes played covers of other Black Legions bands. This demo included tracks by Mütiilation, Bèlkètre, and Brenoritvrezorkre.
In 1996, another split album with the Black Legions project Torgeist, Black Legions Metal, was released by the French Drakkar Productions. Vlad Tepes' activity came to an end that same year with the recording of their fourth and final official demo, Morte Lune.
Wlad later stated that Vlad Tepes had planned their work in four chapters from the outset: birth (War Funeral March), rising (Celtic Poetry), decay (Dans Notre Chute...) and death (Morte Lune).[1]
Influence
Among the musicians who say they have been influenced by Vlad Tepes are guitarist Thurston Moore of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, American bassist Matt Heyner, and guitarist Chris Brokaw.[2]
In 2008, Chris Brokaw recorded an acoustic cover of the song Drink The Poetry of Celtic Disciple, which he considers to be Vlad Tepes' masterpiece, and included it on his album Canaris. Wlad subsequently contacted Brokaw and suggested recording an acoustic cover of Ravens Hike.[2] Both songs were included in the compilation The Drakksteim Sessions, released in 2015.
In 2018, the promise of a private meeting with Wlad Drakksteim enabled the Festival invisible, a music festival in Brest, to bring in musician Thurston Moore, a self-proclaimed fan of Vlad Tepes.[3] This encounter is recounted as a graphic novel by Arnaud Le Gouëfflec and Nicolas Moog in their book Underground.[4] At the 2019 edition of the Festival invisible, a jam session took place between Thurston Moore, Chris Brokaw, and Wlad Drakksteim.[2]
The Return of the Unweeping - Collection (2014 CD, official release, contains The Return of the Unweeping I & II demos, Drakkar Productions DKCD091)
The Drakksteim Sessions (2015 double-CD, contains the Black Legions Metal -the Vlad Tepes part of the split with Torgeist as well as the eponymous cover demo-, several unreleased projects and Vlad Tepes covers by Chris Brokaw, Arkha Sva, Infernal Necromancy & Recluse, Drakkar Productions DKCD094)
↑ Wlad Drakksteim (2023-03-27). Vlad Tepes - Morte Lune. Retrieved 2025-09-26. This was the last recording of Vlad Tepes as it was planned from the very beginning of the project. Four chapters as birth (War Funeral March), rising (Celtic Poetry), decay (Dans Notre Chute...) and Death (Morte Lune).
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