Over 30 years into their nefarious saga, CADAVER remain one of the most unique & potent forces in contemporary heaviness. Formed in Norway in 1988 and led by founding vocalist/guitarist Anders Odden, they pioneered a strange & terrifying strain of death metal that proudly ignored the rulebook. In 2023, CADAVER are back once again to raise a scabby middle digit to the very notion of metal conformity. After a turbulent few years, during which he fought & won a battle with cancer, Odden & his drumming comrade Dirk Verbeuren have concocted a deranged and venomous follow-up to 2020’s widely acclaimed Edder & Bile. Both true to the band’s primitive roots and an audacious, ground-breaking, psychedelic horror show, The Age Of The Offended is an angry, fucked up album for angry, fucked up times, defiantly created against the odds.
The Age Of The Offended represents yet another triumph over adversity for these enduring diehards. The album is not for the overly sensitive. As a veteran of the Norwegian scene, Odden remembers a time before smartphones & social media. Audibly disgusted by the state of things today, the new album offers a reminder that the metal underground was created by people that rejected orthodoxy & refused to compromise. The Age Of The Offended confirms that CADAVER are on a roll & growing in strength and confidence. A wild & wicked barrage of hallucinatory brutality, it strikes a blow for originality, curiosity & defiance, in a world transfixed by the utterly mundane.
