Hail the return of Cadaver!

True legends never die. Only death is real. Hail the return of Cadaver!

Exploding back into action for the first time since 2004, founder member and deathly mastermind Anders Odden (Satyricon/Order) is back to reclaim his throne as one of Europe's true death metal pioneers.

Emerging from the fertile maelstrom of the late '80s metal underground, Cadaver were among the first Norwegian extreme metal bands to gain any recognition away from their homeland. With a sound that mixed the raging brutality of Possessed and Death to a distinctly Norwegian sense of discord and disquiet, Odden and his teenage band mates secured a deal with Earache Records sub-label Necrosis and released their debut album "HALLUCINATING ANXIETY" in 1990 (initially as a split with Swedish kindred spirits Carnage). A more progressive and adventurous but no less vicious follow-up, "…IN PAINS", arrived in 1992: but for all their momentum and unique, malevolent charm, the first Cadaver line-up was ultimately doomed to disintegrate barely a year later. Nonetheless, their status as cult heroes was beyond dispute.

"In hindsight it's easy for me to see that our age was the key issue in how things happened and how we got lost pretty fast," says Anders. "When I later in life realised that Martin Ain was only 16 when he joined Hellhammer and then started Celtic Frost, leaving the band when he was 19, I saw my own path in his path. I was in the same position with Cadaver. I had so many ideas and wanted to do so much, but my band mates had other interests and ideas in life and I ended up being the only person in the band with an in-it-for-life attitude."

Continually active in the metal underground, Anders was never truly willing to contemplate the end of Cadaver: in 2001, he teamed up with members of black metal veterans Aura Noir and re-emerged as Cadaver Inc, promoting themselves as a murder scene clean-up company via what now seems a remarkably prescient online campaign. The resultant album, "DISCIPLINE", brought a stripped-down, quasi-industrial edge to Anders' trademark riffing and was widely praised for its unrelenting intensity. One further album of Cadaver was released in 2004, "NECROSIS", the fourth album in an increasingly warped and wicked legacy.

"It's funny now, but yes – in 2001 we were ahead of our time – again!" Anders notes. "It seem to be my curse, but it's great to have done all that now and to look back so far into my past, pick up where I left things and re-invent my own style. Time is a funny thing. When you're young you think you have to do everything you want to do before you're 25 and then before you're 30, and so on! But when you head into your late 40s you just do not give a fuck anymore. I am in this for life and I feel like I'm outside any other timeline regarding music."

Despite being remorselessly busy with Satyricon and numerous other projects, Anders Odden has been steadily accumulating material for a new Cadaver release for the last decade. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when Anders forged a new friendship and artistic partnership with legendary Megadeth (and former Soilwork) drummer Dirk Verbeuren.

"In my heart I have always had the notion that Cadaver exists somehow," Anders explains. "Dirk played session live work for Satyricon on the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise in 2014 and we got to know each other then. He talked about how much he loved Cadaver and I then told him that I had been recording demos for 10 years without a drummer – So, being the guy he is, he then says, 'Send the songs to me!'"

The result of that impromptu collaboration was over an album's worth of new material. Scheduled to be released in 2020, the album was pushed back due to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.

Dirk Verbeuren comments, "As a legendary band once said, extreme conditions demand extreme responses. We were going to release a 3 song EP sometime after our new album came out, but then a global pandemic happened. While the full-length will arrive at a later date, here's 'D.G.A.F.' in all its brutal glory and on Nuclear Blast, which we couldn't be more stoked about. Consider these misanthropic death metal hymns our soundtrack to the end of days."

"D.G.A.F." is a 3 track digital EP that was recorded and mixed at Northwood Sound Studios in Hollywood, CA. The EP was produced by Cadaver in tandem with Adair Daufembach who also handled the engineering. The album features guest vocals from Carcass' Jeff Walker on the title track.

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