Live

Kadavar + Scott Hepple and the Sun Band

01.12.26 / 8pm

Big Hall · Live - Rock

€25 - €28 - €30

Ticketing

Kadavar

What’s really missing now, before the Apocalypse? Fire falling from the sky? Locusts? Oceans of blood? Otherwise, everything’s already here. Obviously, this didn’t happen overnight: as early as 2017, Kadavar was already playing out its own end-of-the-world scenario with "Rough Times". Eight years later, the verdict is clear: everything has gotten much, much worse. Once again, Berlin’s rock royalty responds to this reality through music, with a sound that’s significantly rawer, more massive, more compact, and darker than on their recent releases: “K.A.D.A.V.A.R.” is like a second debut album, a new landmark work that blends the riff-obsession of their early days with the cosmic creativity of their new four-piece lineup.

Where the previous album delved more into meandering paths, this one rediscovers the groove. Where ethereal atmospheres once dominated, the riff takes back control. “We wanted to get back to big riffs; we wanted to make heavy, massive hard rock again.”

The depth of the themes addressed is also a first in Kadavar’s universe. Whereas “I Just Want To Be A Sound” explored inner conflicts, “K.A.D.A.V.A.R.” deliberately turns its gaze outward. It’s an end-of-the-world album. More disillusioned, more furious, harder, more biting. A laid-bare examination of everything that’s wrong with the world. In other words, almost everything.

And destruction is certainly on the agenda: the martial bass drum that opens “Lies,” followed by that massive, rumbling riff, briefly evokes “Iron Man” (Black Sabbath) before giving way to an irresistible groove that immediately shows the band has lost none of its skill.

Scott Hepple and the Sun Band

Scott Hepple and The Sun Band are a psychedelic/garage rock band based in the UK, currently signed to renowned label Rise Above/Popclaw Records.

After self-releasing two albums in 2023/2024 and touring extensively, (including headlining Jack White's Third Man Records in London and playing shows with Johnny Echols' Love), the band are releasing their third album English Mustard on Rise Above/Popclaw records on 2nd May 2025.

English Mustard was produced by Liam Watson (The White Stripes, Tame Impala, Electric Wizard) at Mike Oldfield's Tilehouse Studios using all analogue equipment. The band will be touring the UK and Europe throughout 2025 to support the release.

Where ?

Big Hall · Live

La Belle Électrique
12 Esplanade Andry-Farcy
38000 Grenoble

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Useful info

Opening hours : Wednesday to Friday, 10am to 1am, and Saturday from 4pm, but also from 6pm if a concert is scheduled.

Doors open : 1 hour before the start of the concert.

Dressing room : €2

Get there

Tramway : Line A stop Berriat - Le Magasin
Bus : Line C5 Université Biologie / Palais de Justice stop "Berriat - Le Magasin".
Train : From Grenoble train station, take tramway A towards "Fontaine La Poya", stop at "Berriat- Le Magasin".
Bicycles : 300 parking spaces available.
Car : Vallier-Catane parking lot, Square des Fusillés or near Rue Ampère.