In 1997, Vlad's album Secret Language was released on the independent label Hyperium in Nuremberg, Germany. The musical style is quite hard to define — it's a sort of blend of trip-hop, industrial, and something else.

VLAD – Secret Language

Label: Hyperium Records 

Format: CD, Album

Pays: Germany

Sortie: 1998

Genre: Electronic

Style: Leftfield, Trip Hop, Broken Beat, Ambient, Electro, Downtempo

1. In This World (Version 1)

2. Tell Lies

3. Dead Love

4. Believe

5. Talking

6. Something Else

7. Burning

8. Everyone

9. Blindness

10. Anybody

11. Living In Prison

12. Darkness

13. In This World  (Version 2)

Written-By, Arranged By, Music By, Producer, Engineer – Vlad

Bass – Vadim Chernyshev (pistes : 10), Vlad (pistes : 3, 5, 6, 8)

Clarinet – Vadim Bondarenko (pistes : 11, 12)

Engineer – Nougsar Pantsoulaia

Guitar [Stick] – Vadim Chernyshev (pistes : 13)

Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Vlad

Vocals [Special] – Vadim Chernyshev (pistes : 4)

Distributed in Germany by Rough Trade.
[C]+[P] 1997 Hyperium Rec.