Cadaver
...In Pains


4.0
excellent

Review

by I trust hype on everything that isnt death metal EMERITUS
April 4th, 2025 | 26 replies


Release Date: 1992 | Tracklist

Review Summary: mr. tumor's sweet riff pie

Cadaver are a weirdo death metal band from Norway who play strange metal that makes you think "cool". They released a nasty little deathgrind album for their debut that sounds like shit but is worth checking if you like bands like Xysma and Pungent Stench. Their next album, ...In Pains, released a couple years later, is a real step up in basically every way.

Think something like Atrocity's first album but not as good, or Disharmonic Orchestra but not as weird. There are a bunch of little start-stop riffs and bass breakdowns and winding dissonant parts sandwiched inbetween death metal riffs that all sound very 1992 techprogdeath but done really well. It spends most of it's time in the mid tempo but every now and then the blasts come out just to give it a bit of dynamics. The production is also nice and thick and exactly the kind of sound you'd expect from a eurodeath album from the early 90's.

Basically, it rocks. If you like 90's death metal that tried to do more than just bash your head in, you'll like this. If you don't, you didn't click on this review, so it doesn't matter.

Enjoy!



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Comments:Add a Comment 
Hyperion1001
Emeritus
April 4th 2025


29664 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

didnt have a review and i wanted to bump so i solved the issue myself.



anyways sweet album.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
April 4th 2025


114775 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Gotta hear this asap.

NexCeleris
Emeritus
April 4th 2025


2293 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thank you for your sacrifice.

Gud jam.

brickhed
April 4th 2025


1386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

a quick review was just what I needed

need to hear this now, appreciate it

Madbutcher3
April 5th 2025


3196 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

never really loved this one but it's a reasonably solid album

ShadowRemains
April 5th 2025


28659 Comments


norway good

zaruyache
April 26th 2025


28600 Comments


new album rules btw!

brickhed
April 26th 2025


1386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

listened to it once and made me wish it was disharmonic orchestra

its all right, kind of has a jank, punk edge that I personally dont vibe with

Hyperion1001
Emeritus
April 26th 2025


29664 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

apparently the new album is unreleased tracks from 1992. half of them are songs that ended up on this album.

zaruyache
April 26th 2025


28600 Comments


That's neat. the remastering is really great; had no idea they were thirty-year-old tracks.

Hyperion1001
Emeritus
April 26th 2025


29664 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah me neither but I was jamming and I was like “damn I’ve heard all these tracks before” lol.



still cool though and there’s a couple new ones.

zaruyache
April 26th 2025


28600 Comments


i went through both tracklists and it seems like the original In Distortion is the only old track not copied to the new album and the new track Maltreated Mind Makes Man Manic isn't a new remaster from this album. I like the new version more either way tho, those new drums have so much more power in the mix now.

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
April 26th 2025


11493 Comments


The only common trait of the new album and ...In Pains is that both song collections were recorded in the early '90s, but the first collection was shelved, probably because it was too experimental for the time...

zaruyache
April 26th 2025


28600 Comments


how are they experimental they're like the same songs?

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
April 27th 2025


11493 Comments


In a review of the album, it said that the songs of the new album were unfinished and in raw form, when …In Pains was released.

I compared track lists of both albums and they are different in terms of song names, and number of songs.

If both track lists refer to the same songs, why change their names afterwards?



Hyperion1001
Emeritus
April 27th 2025


29664 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

idk but I’ve listened to this album quite a lot and i can verify that 70% of the tracks are the same between the two.



which again isn’t a problem, the new one is advertised as an “unreleased album” so they probably recorded it and shelved it for what ended up as in pains. quite a common occurrence back then.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
April 27th 2025


114775 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

About to jam this now.

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
April 27th 2025


11493 Comments


@Hyperion1001

Havent't listened to …In Pains, I plan to do so sooner than later, but I don't think it has the magnitude of Voivod/Virus references that the new album has for sure.

The drumming, in particular, is so volatile, while some guitars transmit Dimension Hatross dissonance.

Hyperion1001
Emeritus
April 27th 2025


29664 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

you’d be surprised. the reason I reviewed this one is cause it’s one of my fav weirdo 90’s dm albums.



the biggest difference is this one is produced in a much more typical Scott burns style where as the new one has a lot more organic and punky tones.



I’d imagine that might be one of the reasons those recordings were shelved.

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
April 27th 2025


11493 Comments


I just listened to this, and yeah, there are only a couple (tops!) of those weird chords that are more prevalent in the new album.

If I were to rate this; if Death's Human is a 5 for progressive/desth metal, this sounded to me in between 3-3.5 and closer to a 3 (listening to the debut right now, and to my ears, it sounds way superior!).

-- the new one has a lot more organic and punky tones.

you just described the production in Voivod's Dimension Hatross ;-)



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