Kadavar Complete Work on New Album
I don’t know how it was for you, but Berlin’s Kadavar pretty much broke my internet yesterday with the photo and relatively brief post below confirming the completion of their next full-length. It wasn’t quite like they surprise-dropped the album itself, the title of which has not yet been revealed, but clearly there’s excitement and anticipation as they start the promotional cycle and the process of putting the thing out, and reasonably so.
The last studio LP from Kadavar was 2020’s The Isolation Tapes (review here), released in 2020, but even when the world stopped, the band never really did. During the plague, they released two live albums recorded in their own studio and a collaboration with Elder (review here), and as soon as touring reopened, Kadavar were back out. I’ve been lucky enough to see them a couple times at Euro fests in the last two years — in 2024 at Freak Valley (review here) and Bear Stone (review here), and in 2023 at SonicBlast (review here) — and though like many I’ve taken the band for granted over the last 15 or so years, the fact remains that a big part of why I’m so much looking forward to the next Kadavar record is I have no idea what it will sound like.
Part of that comes from the fact that Lupus, Tiger and Dragon (keeping it casual there with the nicknames, I am) brought in guitarist/synthesist Jascha Kreft (Odd Couple) to expand from a trio to a four-piece for the first time, but mostly it’s just from Kadavar themselves. If you look at the course of their evolution over now-going-on-seven records, plus what they bring live, it’s a genuine scope that emerges, and as they’ve shown no signs in hindering their own creative growth, one hopes they continue to push into the unknown. The mere prospect of their doing so, floated while reminding people to sign up for their newsletter, was enough to flood the ol’ timeline. Glad to know I’m not the only one looking forward here.
From socials:
Friends, after 2 years of work, our new album is finally finished. Our first single will be out soon, and we’re super excited! As always, everything will be different, yet it’s still unmistakably Kadavar. Sign up for our newsletter (www.kadavar.com/newsletter) now so you don’t miss any updates. xx
Kadavar are:
Lupus Lindemann – Vocals & Guitar
Simon ‘Dragon’ Bouteloup – Bass
Tiger – Drums
Jascha Kreft – Guitar/Keys
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