Cadaver (band)

Cadaver
250x200px Cadaver in 2004
Background information
Also known as	Cadaver Inc.
Origin	Råde, Norway
Genres	Death metal
Years active	1988−1993 1999−2004
Labels	Earache Records Candlelight Records
Associated acts	Carnage, Immortal, Aura Noir, Dødheimsgard, Ved Buens Ende
Website	www.cadaver.no
Past members	Neddo Apollyon Balvaz Czral Ole Bjerkebakke Decay Lust Eilert Solstad Espen Solum

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member. For their final album, they fell back using their original band name Cadaver and ended their activities in 2004, with a their final live show in 2005.

Biography

Anders Odden and Ole Bjerkebakke founded Cadaver in 1988. They were later joined by bassist René Jansen and in 1989 the trio released the "Abnormal Deformity" demo. The demo attracted the attention of Carcass members, Bill Steer and Jeff Walker, who signed the band to their Earache imprint label, Necrosis. The subsequent album, Hallucinating Anxiety was released in 1990 as a split with the Carnage album Dark Recollections. Shortly after the album's release, René Jansen was replaced by Eilert Solstad. In 1992, the band released their second album, titled ...In Pains. Dissension within the band would cause the band to fold in 1993.

In 1999 the band was resurrected by Odden, who went by the name Neddo. He gathered three new musicians, and started to use the band name Cadaver Inc. The foursome, now including Czral, Balvaz and Apollyon recorded the album Discipline which was released in February 2001. A tour followed in support of Morbid Angel and Extreme Noise Terror. Accompanying the album was a website that sold alibis for murders. This website attracted too much attention and hence the original name was restored. Their final album was then released in 2003 titled Necrosis. The band decided to split up in 2004. Shortly thereafter, Anders rejoined synth-rock outfit Apoptygma Berzerk for the recording of You and Me Against the World, which had many top-10 singles in Europe, and subsequent touring. Upon receiving a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to join Celtic Frost on their 2006 world tour, Anders left Apoptygma Berzerk, and was Celtic Frost's second live guitarist until 2007.

Line-up

Final line-up

• Neddo (Anders Odden) - Guitar
• Apollyon (Ole Jørgen Moe) - Vocals, Bass (see also Immortal, Aura Noir, Dødheimsgard)
• L.J. Balvaz - Guitar, Bass
• Czral (Carl-Michael Eide) - Drums (see also Ved Buens Ende, Dødheimsgard, Aura Noir)

Former members

• Ole Bjerkebakke - Drums, Vocals
• Decay Lust (René Jansen) - Bass
• Eilert Solstad - Bass
• Espen Solum - Guitar

Discography

Full-length albums

• Hallucinating Anxiety (Necrosis, 1990)
• ...In Pains (Earache, 1992)
• Discipline (Earache, 2001) Indiziert seit März 2010 (Liste B)
• Necrosis (Candlelight, 2004)

Demos

• Into the Outside (1988)
• Abnormal Deformity (1989)
• Sunset at Dawn (1989)
• Demo 2 (1990)
• Primal 1999 (EP, 1999)

Live albums

• Live Inferno (2002)

Split albums

• Cadaver/Voice of Hate (2006)

External links

• Official website
• Official MySpace Page