CADAVER - Demos & Live 1988-1991 2CD (Preorder)

NB! Preorder item, release May 22.

CADAVER was the first Norwegian band to push the limits of speed with blast beats that the scene hadn’t yet witnessed. From the DIY “hairdryer-and-distortion” effects used to simulate thunder in their early intros to their avant-garde approach to songwriting, this release is a essential document of a band that refused to fit into a box.

Prior to Norway becoming synonymous with Black Metal, the land of fjords gave rise to many a noteworthy Death Metal band too. After having recently reissued THOU SHALT SUFFER’s whole musical history, we at Darkness Shall Rise productions are immensely pleased to offer you another slab of historically important Norwegian Death Metal. Founded by underground legend Anders Odden in 1988, CADAVER produced a couple of highly influential demos eventually securing them a deal with CARCASS members’ Jeff Walker’s and Bill Steer’s label Necrosis records for their landmark album Hallucinating Anxiety in 1990.

This long-overdue compilation covering the whole output produced by Norwegian Death Metal kings CADAVER before the release of their landmark album will surely please any fan of the band and then some.
Coming with a huge booklet in old fanzine style and containing a shitload of pics on top of a very detailed interview with Anders about the early days of CADAVER, this retrospective release is both mandatory for fans of CADAVER and anyone interested in the early days of Death Metal.

A vital document of early Norwegian Death Metal history. 

Disc 1:

– Into the Outside (Demo 1988)

– Abnormal Deformity (Demo 1989)

– Sunset at Dawn (Live 1989)

Disc 2:

 – Unreleased Endless Session (1991)

– Live at Bootleg, Oslo (1990)

The songs were completely new remastered from the original tapes by Patrick W. Engel at the Temple of Disharmony.

2CD jewel-case with 32-page booklet.

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