{"id":17270,"date":"2017-09-25T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:23","slug":"album-review-kadavar-rough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17270","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Kadavar &#8211; Rough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kadavar &#8211; Rough Times<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date:<\/strong> September 29, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: Nuclear Blast<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever put on an album expecting to hear something or at least hope to hear something and then all of the sudden, it\u2019s just not there? Well, that is exactly what happened to me when I put on the latest album by Kadavar, Rough Times. You may be asking me, \u201cBrainfart, what is it you were expecting to hear?\u201d Well, honestly, I don\u2019t know but it wasn\u2019t this.<\/p>\n<p>The opening two tracks, \u201cRough Times\u201d and \u201cInto the Wormhole\u201d have Kadavar dipping into a way more sludgey, doomy spectrum of music which honestly did nothing for me. As a matter of fact, \u00bd way through \u201cInto the Wormhole\u201d I was bored and found myself doing other shit; straightening my desk, checking Facebook, getting another cup of coffee, etc. \u201cSkeleton Blues\u201d definitely woke me up as this is what I think of when I think of Kadavar. That swing, that groove, the melodic dynamics; THIS is what I was expecting to hear more of.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fE6AqV43bz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie Baby Die\u201d seemed to be almost there but honestly, lead vocalist\/guitarist Lupus sounded just as bored as I did listening to this one. This song seemed to be really trying to go somewhere but for some odd reason never really achieved liftoff. \u201cWords of Evil\u201d pulled from Kadavar\u2019s punk influences and sounded more like something that would be on their debut album but it was \u201cThe Lost Child\u201d that was without a doubt the showstopper. As a matter of fact, I think that THIS is more of what I was expecting from this album more so than the kind of doomy, sludgy, punky kind of direction that this album leaned heavier on.<\/p>\n<p>Rough Times is definitely not the album that I was expecting from Kadavar and honestly, this can be seen as both a good and a bad thing: Good being that Rough Times is an album that caught me off guard and delivered the unexpected. Bad being that Rough Times just didn\u2019t seem to hit me and make me feel like their previous masterpiece, Berlin. Berlin was such an emotional album full of depth and feeling and Rough Times just seems to lack that sincere kind of emotion. Maybe it\u2019s there but if it is, I\u2019m not getting it like I did with Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Rough Times is just one of those albums that takes a few spins to sink in. Maybe it\u2019s just that Rough Times isn\u2019t an album for me. It doesn\u2019t make me any less a fan of Kadavar but it just reminds me that even your favorite bands can\u2019t always be perfect and do things the way you\u2019d like them to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kadavar &#8211; Rough Times Release Date: September 29, 2017 Label: Nuclear Blast Have you ever put on an album expecting to hear something or at least hope to hear something and then all of the sudden, it\u2019s just not there? Well, that is exactly what happened to me when I put on the latest album by Kadavar, Rough Times. You may be asking me, \u201cBrainfart, what is it you were expecting to hear?\u201d Well, honestly, I don\u2019t know but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[957,985,1859],"class_list":["post-17270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-kadavar","tag-nuclear-blast","tag-rough-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19655,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions\/19655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}