Their desire to be completely satisfied with their sound stems from a quote by their French bassist Simon 'Dragon' Bouteloup. When Kadavar founders Lupus Lindemann and Tiger Bartelt asked the Paris-born musician shortly after he joined the band in 2013 why he didn't maintain any social media accounts, he said the momentous sentence: I just want to be a sound. This stuck with them, encapsulating an aspiration that they had actually been pursuing since their formation in 2010 – one that has continued to evolve over the band's 15-year history.
Kadavar have undergone a significant transformation on this path of sound development. From credible representatives of retroesque, psychedelic stoner rock – which always thrived on the contemporary coolness of Berlin, the city where Lupus and Tiger met in the hedonistic noughties – they soon ventured out into the big wide world. They not only showcased their musical ideas on stages in countless countries but also found new inspiration. While Kadavar initially sounded like the past, their sound became more and more contemporary over the years, shaped by the experience machine of extensive touring, crossing genre boundaries. Sound as a changing, universal language – that is what Kadavar have always known how to create.
