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KADAVAR Live In Copenhagen / Release Date Pre-Order Start Rough Times Tour Edition uu 12/10/2018 uu 17/08/2018

uu 2CD-Digi incl. Rough Times & Live In Copenhagen CD uu 24.08. digital single “Die Baby Die” uu 14.09. digital single ”Into The Night“ uu advertising in many important music magazines AUG/SEP/OCT 2018 Price Code: CD02 uu album reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Eu- NB 4537-0 2CD-DIGI rope’s AUG/SEP/OCT 2018 issues (incl. Rough Times album & Live In Copenhagen CDs uu song placements in European magazine compilations uu spotify playlists in all European territories uu instore decoration: flyers, poster A1 uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and display networks, bing ads and gmail ads (tbc) uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on You tube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images and a background on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings to targeted audiences in support of the release Price Code: LP17 NB 4537-1 2LP (black in gatefold) RELEASE THEIR FIRST LIVE-ALBUM! ”It is obvious that people like to put you in a box, and it is our job away from the increasingly heavier stoner bands of the time (the to create our own drawer and label it KADAVAR” name itself was inspired by the American underground heroes For the few lucky bands who live to see a career blossom out of DANAVA). “If someone does a seven minute jam on one riff and uu Tracklists: their passion, even fewer manage to avoid the hopeless creative sells it as something cool I think he is just too stupid to write a “Rough Times” CD: stagnation that happens when hobby turns into “work”. We all good song!” Lupus says. “We wanted to sound more like a heavy 01. Rough Times know that as soon as rock n’ roll starts to resemble going to the of- garage band. We still do, maybe now more than ever.” 02. Into The Wormhole fice, there are no winners – everybody’s screwed. As the German Personality-wise, they couldn’t be more different. Lupus is social 03. Skeleton Blues 04. Die Baby Die trio KADAVAR – arguably the hardest working band in European and opinionated. An emotional straight-shooter, or “East Ger- 05. Vampires rock – stands on the brink of releasing their fourth full length al- man” - as he himself sums it up. Where he wears his heart on 06. Tribulation Nation 07. Words Of Evil bum »Rough Times«, they look back at a seven year long career his sleeve, Tiger on the other hand keeps his neatly tucked inside, 08. The Lost Child of doing things the other way around. Rather than this being the only to be exposed to the outside world on stage. Where Lupus 09. You Found The Best In Me time to start talking about how music is just another way of pay- speaks, Tiger thinks. 10. A L’Ombre Du Temps Bonus: ing the bills, they could not be more in tune with the main reason In between them two balances Simon ‘Dragon’ Bouteloup, the 11. Helter Skelter anybody starts a band in the first place – liberation. bassist who replaced the original member Phillip ‘Mammut’ Lip- Not that they are strangers to neither chart positions nor sold out pitz. There is nothing German about this Parisian bohemian. “Live In Copenhagen” CD: venues. After being formed in the German capital city back in Simon spent his late teenage years drifting around Europe in- 01. Skeleton Blues 2010, the word of KADAVAR playing in a different league from tuitively – just like his style of playing – later ending up with the 02. Doomsday Machine their retro rock-labelled peers quickly spread worldwide, resulting infamous French psychonauts in AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR. 03. Pale Blue Eyes 04. Wormhole not only in audiences growing past the 1000 mark on their many He moved to Berlin in 2012 to play with THE OATH, and joined 05. The Old Man tours, but also in chart positions for their third and latest album KADAVAR two years later. 06. Die Baby Die 07. Black Sun »Berlin« – entering on position 18 in Germany and 21 in the US In the beginning of 2017 the band prepared to start a new album 08. Living In Your Head Heatseekers charts. Highly regarded as one of the most explosive cycle by literally rolling up their sleeves and building a brand new 09. Into The Night live experiences on contemporary rock scene, their secret seems recording studio from scratch. Over 100 square meters inside an 10. Forgotten Past 11. Tribulation Nation to be boiled down and brewed from three ingredients: an acces- industrial complex in the area of Neukölln in Berlin is now their 12. Purple Sage sible yet personalized brand of classic rock; a no-frills approach creative haven and workplace alike, and this is where the fol- low-up to »Berlin« has started to take form. 2LP ( 33 RPM): to everything they do (”minimal arrangement, maximum effect”); Side A and that undeniable German tenacity, yet again. Along with the release of their fourth studio album »Rough 01. Skeleton Blues “Even in the early years there was somehow an implication that Times«, the band went back on the road and performed their 02. Doomsday Machine 03. Pale Blue Eyes unless we gave it 120 per cent, nobody would ever recognize any new work on a five-week tour through Europe together with label 04. Wormhole of it,” says drummer Christoph ‘Tiger’ Bartelt. “That was one half. mates MANTAR and Dutch newcomers DEATH ALLEY. With their Side B The other half was juvenile over-confidence!” relentless drive to play live and deliver ecstatic jams, KADAVAR 01. The Old Man 02. Die Baby Die Him and Lupus both grew up working class, the latter in an have managed to surpass the expectations of their audience with 03. Black Sun over-achieving family of athletes, which fueled his competitive every time around. 04. Living In Your Head Side C side (”in our family, the second best was the first loser”). Both Since their first appearance in Copenhagen at HEAVY DAYS IN 01. Into The Night studied sound engineering after high school, and met in the beer- DOOMTOWN in 2013, Denmark´s capitol and especially the 02. Forgotten Past drenched Berlin underground at night time, as you do. Inspiration charm of the audience has always entranced the band and re- 03. Tribulation Nation Side D struck when the new wave of retro rock flooded the scene in the sulted in powerful performances, not uncommonly followed by 01. Purple Sage mid-00’s, and together they built KADAVAR on the foundation savage nights. Their set at Pumpehuset in November 2017 left the 02. All Our Thoughts of a vintage sound with classic song structure – a conscious step cheering audience spellbound and deaf. 03. Come Back Life Territory: World www.kadavar.com • www.facebook.com/kadavarofficial • www.nuclearblast.de/kadavar Style: Metal

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Line up: Christoph ‘Lupus’ Lindemann | vocals & guitars • Christoph ‘Tiger’ Bartelt | drums • Simon ‘Dragon’ Bouteloup | bass

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