Kadavar Continue Visual Album with “Filthy Illusion”
It’s not strobes or anything, but if you’re sensitive to flashing lights or things like that, you might want to approach the new Kadavar video with some measure of caution. The clip for “Filthy Illusion” continues the German heavy rock forerunners’ intention toward representing each of the tracks from their 2015 third outing, Berlin (review here), with a video — they’re calling it a “visual album,” which is fair enough — and follows behind “Pale Blue Eyes,” which was posted in March. The three-piece also previously had videos for “The Old Man” (posted here) and “Last Living Dinosaur” (posted here), so they’re already well on their way toward a clip for all the songs on Berlin.
Kadavar just this weekend wrapped up a quick Australian tour that I believe was their second behind a run in 2013, and will spend much of the summer taking part in European festival season, with slots at Hellfest, Graspop, Copenhell and many others slated. As to what the fall and beyond might hold, I don’t know. They worked pretty quickly between their first two records and there was only a two-year split between 2013’s Abra Kadavar (review here) and Berlin, so it’s entirely possible they’ll embark on putting together a new album for release sometime in 2017, but the response to Berlin has been considerable. They might just have more road-time to put in to make sure, you know, the entire planet is covered and whatnot.
Either way, the presumption is that the series of videos for Berlin‘s cuts will continue all the while, and between “Filthy Illusion” and “Pale Blue Eyes,” they’ve already established a pretty broad spectrum within which to work going forward. I guess we’ll see how the rest shakes out when we get there.
Enjoy “Filthy Illusion,” followed by more info from the PR wire, below:
Kadavar, “Filthy Illusion” official video
KADAVAR have released the second video for the Berlin visual album concept. Watch the video for “Filthy Illusion” on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel!
Together with long-time friend and collaborator Nathini van der Meer (http://nathinivandermeer.com), who has created artwork and videos for them in the past, they are working on their first “Visual Album”- 12 short films accompanying each of the albums’ songs, to be released once a month throughout the entirety of the year.
Commented the band: “You lose ground under your feet. No crutch, no hope, only a plunge into the deep unknown. Life always challenges you and you either fail or you grow out of it. No matter what you do, to get on your feet again, in the end it’s just a ‘Filthy Illusion’ and just right around the next corner there’s a another black hole trying to suck you right in.”
For the second video for the visual album concept, Nathini did just that – more visuality than a story line. An optical illusion perfectly matching the song that aesthetically captivates the audience and puts them in a kind of ecstatic trance. A bit trippy, a bit poppy, a bit dirty, just as the song itself, the video was shot with old, analogue lenses. A studio set up that matches KADAVAR’s live performances because in those, in their sound and light show you can also easily lose yourself.
Tags: Berlin, Germany, Kadavar, Kadavar Berlin, Nuclear Blast Records
