I mean, it’s gorgeous. This isn’t the first collaborative outing Kadavar have done — that would be with Aqua Nebula Oscillator however many years back — but my goodness, “From Deep Within” is breathtaking. ‘A single act to separate darkness from light.’ At nine and a half minutes, the first ‘single’ and opening track of Eldovar – A Story of Darkness and Light is unveiled to mark the beginning of preorders for the Dec. 3 Robotor Records release, and it explains more than a few things about the nature of the pairing. You can hear the Elder, you can hear the Kadavar and more importantly, you can hear the two of them together as something new. Bloody hell.

Not saying I’ve heard the record or anything, but I’ll note that late-2021 is making list-time much more difficult than it would otherwise be. This is something special. Might as well get my CD order in now.

From the PR wire:

First single „From Deep Within“ with Elder is out now! Pre-order for „ELDOVAR – A Story Of Darkness & Light“ starts today 12:00 CET here: https://kadavarelder.lnk.to/ELDOVAR

Berlin’s most important rock band Kadavar has written its second album during a single pandemic. This time around, however, they weren’t stuck alone in lockdown. They colluded with US prog rock wunderkinder Elder, Berlin immigrants just like Kadavar were a decade ago, and decided to drown in sound together. What surfaced is “A Story of Darkness & Light”, a marvel of musical liberty, a gushing opus between rock, prog and alternative, held together by the two bands’ contrasts. Light and shadow. Alpha and omega.

The album “Eldovar – A Story Of Darkness & Light” will be released on December 3, 2021 on Kadavar’s label Robotor Records. Today the bands launches the first single “From Deep Within” together with a music video for the song.

Eldovar: A bond between Kadavar and Elder. “A Story of Darkness & Light”: An intimate, touching, billowing, roaring piece of music, a sublime manifesto of musical freedom that we paradoxically owe a horrible pandemic.

“After ‘The Isolation Tapes’ I simply wasn’t ready for the next Kadavar record,” drummer Christoph “Tiger” Bartelt recounts the origins of this collaboration. “I couldn’t imagine continuing as if nothing had happened.” He wasn’t alone. As both Kadavar and Elder are horrible at sitting around doing nothing, they holed up in Kadavar’s Robotor Studios in Berlin between March and June 2021 and formulated the shared vision of an essentially human, deeply personal album – a body of work with the gravitas and wonderful weirdness of early prog albums, a monument for musics’ ecstatic urge for freedom.

Tiger Bartelt, Lupus Lindemann, and Simon Bouteloup of Kadavar as well as Michael Risberg, Nick DiSalvo, and Georg Edert of Elder (minus bassist Jack Donovan who wasn’t allowed to travel from the US) extract an arcane and fleeting magic from the primordial broth of rock, the kind of magic that can only work when everything is in fluid. When nothing is disturbing the creative process, when there is no external or internal pressure whatsoever. Never before did the music of these bands breathe in such a way. Never before did they sound as versatile, as surprising and as peculiar as they do here.

“Eldovar – A Story Of Darkness & Light” will be released on December 3, 2021 via Robotor Records. The album will be released on vinyl in 8 different colors and two special silkscreen editions and on CD. Pre-order starts today!
The album will also be available on all digital platforms.

Kadavar are:
Lupus Lindemann – Vocals & Guitar
Simon ‘Dragon’ Bouteloup – Bass
Tiger – Drums

Elder are:
Nick DiSalvo (guitar, vocals, keyboards)
Jack Donovan (bass)
Michael Risberg (guitars, keyboards)
Georg Edert (drums)

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https://www.kadavar.com/

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https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/

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Kadavar and Elder, “From Deep Within” official video

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