Cadaver (band)

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Cadaver
Cadaver in 2004
Cadaver in 2004
General information
origin Fredrikstad and Råde , Norway
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1988, 1999 as Cadaver Inc
resolution 1993, 2004 as a cadaver
Current occupation
Unlike “Neddo” Odden
Vocals , later also electric bass
Ole Jørgen "Apollyon" Moe
Carl-Michael "Czral" oath
initially electric bass, later electric guitar
 Lasse Johansen aka LJ Balvaz
former members
Electric bass
 René Jansen
Electric bass
 Eilert Solstad
Drums, vocals
 Ole Bjerkebakke
Electric guitar
 Aspen Sollum

Cadaver was a Norwegian death metal band from Fredrikstad and Råde that was formed in 1988 and split up in 1993. In 1999 the band was re-founded under the name Cadaver Inc , before it split up again in 2004 after being renamed Cadaver.

history

The band was founded in 1988 and consisted of singer and drummer Ole Bjerkebakke and guitarist Anders "Neddo" Odden, both of whom had already known each other through working together with a band called Sarcophag. Both recorded a first demo together called Into the Outside , which was released in November 1988, of which 50 copies were sent in order to find a suitable bassist. Then René Jansen became aware of the group, which Cadaver joined as bassist. The band made their first appearance on June 17, 1989 in Fredrikstad together with Balvaz and Equinox . Carcass guitarist Bill Steer became aware of the band through the demo Abnormal Deformity , which was released by Rapax Productions in July 1989 and was recorded at Kællen Studios in Fredrikstad . Through Steer, the band reached a recording deal with Necrosis Records , a sub-label of Earache Records , which was operated by Carcass members Steer and Jeff Walker , about which the debut album Hallucinating Anxiety was released in 1990 , of which about 10,000 units were sold. Svein Johansen could then be heard as a guest musician. In September 1989, the live demo Sunset at Dawn had also been released. In January 1990 five more demo songs were recorded, but they were not released. The debut album, minus the song Hallucinating Anxiety , was also heard on a split release with Carnage . Shortly after the album was released, Eilert Solstad joined the line-up as the new bass player, before Espen Sollum came on as the second guitarist a few months later. In 1992 the second album followed under the name … in Pains , of which around 25,000 copies were sold. The sound carrier was recorded under the direction of Kjetil Kællen Johansen in the Rhythm Studios in Bidford , but Odden was again represented here as the sole guitarist. In 1993 the band made four appearances with Cradle of Filth in England . Both groups also played a soccer game against each other, but Cadaver lost. The still young Cradle of Filth then asked the band about the Norwegian scene and whether those involved really meant everything. After Øystein Aarseth died three months later , Anders Odden took a two-year break from the scene and was then amazed to see the now much better known Cradle of Filth on the cover of Metal Hammer . In 1993 the band split up. Until they broke up, the band had played with groups such as Mayhem , Darkthrone , Death and Dissection , among others . Anders Odden would later revive the project under the name Cadaver Inc.

After a short activity at Apoptygma Berzerk , Anders Odden devoted himself to his solo career and his work as a producer. He also worked as a guest musician several times. In 1999 he re-founded the band under the name Cadaver Inc. Besides him, the singer Ole Jørgen “Apollyon” Moe ( Aura Noir ), the bassist LJ Balvaz and the drummer Carl-Michael “Czral” Eide were active in the band. Odden knew Eide and Moe through Fenriz , who introduced him to both of them in 1995, while Balvaz was a good friend of Odden's. The group made their first appearances, playing with Satyricon in December 1999 . Through the demo Primal , the group reached a contract with Earache Records, which in 2001 released the album Discipline . The sound carrier consisted of material from 1993 as well as new songs. Fenriz was a guest musician in the song Rupture , while Bård G. Eithun could be heard in the song Killtech with a spoken word contribution. The band also went on tour with Extreme Noise Terror , Morbid Angel and Zyklon and also played in the USA . The band's website was designed like a real business website specializing in providing corpse disposal services. The telephone number advertised was identical to that of the Norwegian Parliament . However, under pressure from the Norwegian government, the site had to be taken offline again a short time later. The film Pulp Fiction was also the inspiration for the website. Various tours followed the release. After performing at the Milwaukee Metal Fest , the band returned to Norway to work on another album. In 2002 Balvaz switched from bass to electric guitar, so that the band now had two guitarists, while singer Moe also took over the bass. The band hoped to have a better live presence by using two guitars. After switching to Candlelight Records , the next album Necrosis was released in 2004 , which was recorded under the direction of Bjørn Boge in the Sound Residence Studio in Oslo . Meanwhile the band called themselves just Cadaver again. The publication followed, among other things, a European tour together with Mayhem. In September 2004 the band announced their breakup.

style

According to Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia, in their early days the band played death metal in the style of grindcore band Carcass. Hallucinating Anxiety offers imaginative Death Metal, in which a song with a tuba can be heard as an unfamiliar instrument. Rivadavia wrote about Discipline that the band played a mixture of black and industrial metal . According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s , the band on Discipline plays a mixture of Death Metal from different countries such as Sweden , Great Britain (especially Napalm Death ) and the USA, as well as modern, dissonant Black Metal. The music sounds like a mixture of a demo version of Zyklon and the melodious and grindcore-like Satyricon, which gives an overall picture that reminds him of Godflesh . According to Garry Sharpe-Young in his book AZ of Death Metal , the band plays pure death metal on Hallucinating Anxiety , while on … in Pains technical thrash metal . According to Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 3 , the band on Hallucinating Anxiety plays classic Death Metal with brutal vocals. However, the release was a few years too late, as the band had already anticipated many other groups better for Herr, such as Death, Morbid Angel , Autopsy , Atheist , Benediction , Necrophagia , Messiah , Delirium , Blasphemy , Atrocity and Obituary . According to Joel McIver in his book Extreme Metal , the band plays classic, technically demanding death metal. In addition, borrowings from classic Thrash Metal can be heard from time to time. In his second book Extreme Metal II is Hallucinating Anxiety been designated as the first Norwegian death metal album. Jon Kristiansen wrote in Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries for the band's first demo that the band was playing brutal death metal. The music is similar to that of Nihilist , with a little Carcass influence. Elsewhere he also drew a comparison to Nihilist and gave other bands such as Entombed , Dismember and Carnage as comparisons. In an interview with him, Anders Odden stated that Slayer and Voivod are his greatest influences. In an interview with Ramon Claassen from voicesfromthedarkside.de , Anders Odden stated that he quickly became aware of From Hell to the Unknown by Venom in his youth, disappointed by releases by heavy metal bands such as Kiss and Iron Maiden . On Discipline , the band only deals with the subject of death. According to Claassen, the band plays Black Metal on Discipline , with a brutal atmosphere that fits in with a Death Metal band. The music is raw and the speed of the songs varies: sometimes menacingly slow, sometimes relaxingly groovy , but always aggressive.

According to Robert Müller from Metal Hammer , the band on Hallucinating Anxiety offers "heavy, flat and not overly hectic Death Metal songs". The intro of the album offers cacophonic tuba sounds. According to Müller, the bass on ... in Pains is acoustic, ie "combustible". The band play Death Metal with song structures that would evoke memories of Voivod. The songs have a cold sound, are melodious and sound nasty. In his review of Discipline , Müller stated that the band's first two albums are technically complex. Thanks to the "fast-paced riffs and consistent speed", Odden managed to "stay away from the depths of contemporary Black Metal". Odden tries to fuse black and death metal, as bands like Zyklon, Gehenna or Myrkskog have done. Anzo Sadoni of the same magazine stated in his review of Necrosis that Cadaver was an exotic band on their debut album because they played death metal and otherwise Norway was only known for their black metal groups. With the name change back to Cadaver, the group has returned to its death metal roots.

Discography

as a cadaver

as Cadaver Inc

  • Primal (Demo, 2000, Rapax Productions)
  • Live Inferno (Live album, 2001, Rapax Productions)
  • Discipline (album, 2001, Earache Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cadaver Inc. (No longer available online.) Earache.com, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved October 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.earache.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on October 15, 2014 ; accessed on October 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  3. ↑ a b c d Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 3 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1991, p. 25th f .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Bio. Myspace , archived from the original on April 23, 2012 ; Retrieved October 6, 2014 .
  5. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Death Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2001, ISBN 1-901447-35-9 , pp. 63 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Ramon Claassen: Cadaver Inc. voicesfromthedarkside.de, accessed on October 8, 2014 .
  7. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Cadaver. Allmusic , accessed October 6, 2014 .
  8. ^ A b Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, pp. 500 f.
  9. ↑ a b c Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 46 .
  10. ^ Gunnar Sauermann: Morbid Angel . + Cyclone + cadaver. In: Metal Hammer . July 2001, p. 130 .
  11. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Cadaver Inc. Allmusic, accessed October 6, 2014 .
  12. ^ Special column: Carl Michael Eide. voicesfromthedarkside.de, accessed on October 8, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 69 .
  14. ^ Joel McIver: Extreme Metal . Omnibus Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7119-8040-3 , p. 49 .
  15. ^ Jon Kristiansen: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 155.
  16. ↑ Ramon Claassen: CADAVER INC. Discipline. voicesfromthedarkside.de, accessed on October 8, 2014 .
  17. ^ Robert Müller: Cadaver . Hallucinating Anxiety. In: Metal Hammer . March 1991, p. 74 f .
  18. ^ Robert Müller: Cadaver . ... in pains. In: Metal Hammer . February 1993, p. 64 .
  19. ^ Robert Müller: Cadaver Inc. Discipline. In: Metal Hammer . May 2001, p. 87 .
  20. ↑ Anzo Sadoni: Cadaver . Necrosis. In: Metal Hammer . June 2004, p. 99 .