Kadavar
Steeped in the bluesy, brooding, bottom-heavy traditions of bands like Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, and Led Zeppelin, German psych rock trio Kadavar unapologetically spin '70s-era hard rock tropes into contemporary stoner metal gold. Known for explosive live shows, the band play hundreds of dates a year, and have done so since issuing their 2010 self-titled debut. That hard work paid off as each album sold better than its predecessor. Their third album, 2017's Rough Times, entered the German album charts at 18. 2019's For the Dead Travel Fast registered inside the U.S. metal Top 20 by celebrating all things fuzzy, trippy, and creepy. 2020 saw the band move to Berlin's Robotor Records and release the uncharacteristically moody The Isolation Tapes during the pandemic. At the end of 2021, Kadavar teamed up with American ex-pats Elder to release the conceptual, six-song, prog-psych tome Eldovar: A Story of Darkness & Light. In 2024, they celebrated their debut album with a special anniversary box set, and in 2025, they issued their assured and introspective seventh long-player, I Just Want to Be a Sound.Formed in Berlin by Christoph Lindemann (guitar, vocals), Simon Bouteloup (bass), and Christoph Bartelt (drums), the immaculately bearded retro-rockers released their eponymous Teepee Records-issued debut in 2012. The band inked a deal with Nuclear Blast the following year, the home of like-minded acts Witchcraft and Graveyard, resulting in their sophomore long-player Abra Kadavar (2013) and chart-topping 2015 follow-up Berlin. The summer of 2017 saw the release of a pair of singles, "Die Baby Die" and "Into the Wormhole," ahead of the arrival of their fourth studio long-player, Rough Times, which dropped later that September. After playing over 300 shows over the next year-and-a-half, Kadavar entered their newly revamped studio in May of 2019 to switch things up a bit. They emerged with an album that was their blackest sonically; equally inspired by old horror soundtracks, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu, and first-wave European vintage doom metal. Entitled For the Dead Travel Fast from a work by German gothic poet Gottfried August Bürger, the self-produced effort was issued by Nuclear Blast in the fall. After cutting short their support tour due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Kadavar signed to Berlin's Robotor Records and got to work creating new music in quarantine by sharing files. They emerged with The Isolation Tapes in April 2021. Still unable to tour, they created a studio conceptual collaboration in Berlin with U.S.-born psych-stoner emigres Elder. The six-song, 40-minute exercise in proggy psych was released as Eldovar: A Story of Darkness & Light in December. The eclectic I Just Want to Be a Sound appeared in 2025. The album marked a tonal shift for the band, eschewing some of its more metallic tendencies for something closer to stoner pop, echoing more mainstream-leaning modern rock enthusiasts like Ghost and Sleep Token.
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21 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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I Just Want To Be A Sound
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Clouds Hill el 16 may 2025
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Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Clouds Hill el 7 nov 2025
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Kadavar (The First Album Anniversary Edition)
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 10 jul 2012
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Total Annihilation
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Clouds Hill el 26 sept 2025
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For the Dead Travel Fast
Rock - Editado por Nuclear Blast el 11 oct 2019
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Explosions In The Sky
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Clouds Hill el 24 oct 2025
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Lies
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Clouds Hill el 29 ago 2025
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ELDOVAR - A Story of Darkness & Light
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 3 dic 2021
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The Isolation Tapes
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 23 oct 2020
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The Isolation Tapes (Premium Edition)
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 9 abr 2021
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Live in Copenhagen (Live in Copenhagen)
Rock - Editado por Nuclear Blast el 12 oct 2018
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Live in Antwerp (Live @ Trix)
Rock - Editado por Nuclear Blast el 6 jun 2014
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The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 26 feb 2021
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From Deep Within
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 22 oct 2021
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Eternal Light (We Will Be OK) / Everything Is Changing
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 9 oct 2020
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Evil Forces - Studio Live Session Vol. I
Rock - Editado por Robotor Records el 26 mar 2021
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