Kadavar isn’t out to innovate. Hailing from the titular city of its third LP, the German power trio still plows early-Seventies proto metal, but they’re evolving nonetheless. Steadily improving its craft, especially the songwriting, the Berliners unleash cleaner melodies, sharper arrangements, and the kind of chemistry forged from a million miles of roadwork. Confident, crunchy, and catchy as hell, “Last Living Dinosaur,” “Lord of the Sky,” and “See the World With Your Own Eyes” rock righteously, passing retro on their way to timeless.
This article appears in August 14 • 2015.
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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.
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