JunkYard Open Air 2026 - with Kadavar, Elder and more

Name: JunkYard Open Air 2026 - with Kadavar, Elder and more
Start: 2026-06-20T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-20T15:00:00+02:00
Location: JunkYard

took place · 20 Jun 2026

JunkYard, Dortmund, Germany

festival party outdoor

JunkYard Open Air 2026 - with Kadavar, Elder and more — JunkYard, Dortmund

Foto: Henry W. Laurisch · CC BY-SA 3.0

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JunkYard Open Air 2026 is an outdoor music festival in Dortmund featuring Kadavar, Elder, and many more artists.

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About: Kadavar

Formed in Berlin in 2010, Kadavar have spent 15 years turning 70s psychedelic hard rock into something entirely their own - from early Nuclear Blast albums like "Abra Kadavar" and "Berlin" to the twin 2025 releases that show a band still pushing its own limits.

130K

Facebook followers

#10

Peak position on German album charts ("I Just Want to Be a Sound", 2025)

Peak position on German album charts ("For the Dead Travel Fast", 2019)

Live concerts played in 2025 (Songkick)

What's new

2025-11
Kadavar released their second album of 2025, "Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity and Ruin" (K.A.D.A.V.A.R.), on November 7 via Clouds Hill, returning to a heavier, riff-focused sound.
2025-07
Kadavar's seventh studio album "I Just Want to Be a Sound" was released in July 2025 and reached number 10 on the German album charts.
2025-10
Kadavar played a nine-date German-language tour in October-December 2025, including stops in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin.

Tour

ClissonDesselDortmundKielReutlingenSegrateMexico CityBuenos Aires

Tracks

Doomsday Machinelead single from 'Abra Kadavar' (2013), one of their most-streamed tracks

Die Baby Diesingle from 'Rough Times' (2017), widely played live

Last Living Dinosaurfan favourite from the album 'Berlin' (2015)

Hysterialead single from 'I Just Want to Be a Sound' (2025)

Lieslead single from 'Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity and Ruin' (K.A.D.A.V.A.R., 2025)

About: Elder

Two decades in, the Massachusetts-born, Berlin-based quartet keeps pushing heavy psychedelic rock into new territory - their seventh album Through Zero arrived in May 2026, and a packed European festival run follows through the summer.

Studio albums released since 2006

20+

Years active as a band

Rolling Stone Best Metal Albums of 2017 (Reflections of a Floating World)

What's new

2026-05
Elder released their seventh studio album Through Zero on May 29, 2026, via Blues Funeral Recordings (North America) and Stickman Records (Europe).
2026-02
Elder announced a summer 2026 European festival run including Download Festival, Hellfest, Graspop Metal Meeting, and Brutal Assault, alongside a US fall tour.
2025-09
Elder released the two-track EP Liminality / Dream State Return on September 2, 2025, recorded in Berlin in winter 2024 after a year-long creative sabbatical.

Tour

SlunjPleszewErfurtReutlingenBudapestTolminMilanRockstadtBreitenbach am HerzbergRostockJosefov-JaromerOberhausenHamburgBerlinLeipzigVienna

Tracks

Lore2015 album, widely considered the band's breakthrough and a genre landmark; performed in full on 2025 anniversary tour

Reflections of a Floating World2017 album, #5 on Rolling Stone's Best Metal Albums of 2017

Innate Passage2022 album, critically lauded follow-up that deepened the band's progressive rock direction

Through Zero2026 seventh studio album, self-produced and co-mixed with Richard Behrens in Berlin

Eldovar - A Story of Darkness & Light2021 collaborative album with German psych-rock band Kadavar, recorded during pandemic lockdown in Berlin

JunkYard Open Air 2026 - with Kadavar, Elder and more

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