CAVE IN CONTEST: WIN A PLANETS OF OLD LIMITED EDITION COLOR VINYL!
Monday, July 20th, 2009 at 3:15pm by Vince Neilstein
In case you haven’t already noticed we’re super-stoked that Cave In are back together and once again creating new music. Their new single “Retina Sees Rewind” is currently available on iTunes with the rest of the record Planets of Old coming on 12″ on July 28th. Oh hey guess what? The entire record is now streaming live at www.planetsofold.com, starting… this instant!
The folks at Hydra Head Records have been kind enough to hook us up with 3 limited edition vinyl copies of Planets of Old to give away to ya’ll. Each 12″ is on a color of vinyl called “All Natural Vanilla Pistachio Ice Creams,” a color that’s exclusively available either via this contest or at Vacation Vinyl, the metal record store Hydra Head co-founder Mark Thompson opened this past February.
All you have to do to win is post a comment below (with a valid email address) telling us which Cave In record is your favorite and why. We’ll be picking our three favorite entries (independent of our personal favorite Cave In record preferences) and notifying the winners next week.
-VN
Do want!! Perfect Pitch Black is my favorite (so far) as it seems to roll all of their different eras into one record. It was also my first record of theirs.
I agree totally.
My personal avorite CAVE IN album woud be Antenna.
This is the first one that got me into them but also opened me to their evolution ….
it made me want to discover how they got to that sound from their beginings as a more harcore band.
Jupiter. Space rock genius. Original and immense.
I listened to their cover of Dazed And Confused, puked, and steered clear of all things Cave In since
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I might get some flack for this, but I love “Tides of Tomorrow”. I’ve been a fan for a long time, and I don’t think anyone can deny the sheer sonic force of “Until your heart stops” or “beyond hypothermia”, but “Tides” was a transitional record in every sense…it took all the best parts of “Jupiter” and also gave us a glimpse of what was to come as they made the switch to a major label. Not to mention that it’s a really cool gesture to put out a “farewell” EP for your old label before making the switch to the bigs. Beautiful, epic songwriting and a Giants Chair cover…that album still gives me chills.
Jupiter is my favorite Cave In record.. If you would have handed it to me when it came out, and not told me who the band was… I would have had no idea it was Cave In… and would have still loved it. The fact that they were able to re-invent themselves so successfully on that record and be so relevant, is still astounding to me. Other metal/hardcore bands have had members move on to bands that represent a different genre, but I don’t think any band has been able to do is as a unit as good as Cave In showed us on Jupiter.
Planets of Old; because it’s new!
My favorite is Until your heart stops, because I’m old. And I was young when I heard it, and it opened up a lot of doors into extreme music for me, as well as leading me into their other albums and opening my mind to a lot of different styles of music.
Part of me wants to say Beyond Hypothermia, because my favorite Cave In song (Crossbearer) is on it. I’m going to have to say my favorite is Jupiter. Until Your Heart Stops was brilliant, but seeing a group of guys my age putting out a record that was as epic and eclectic as anything I’d ever heard before was mindblowing. Everything about Jupiter fucking rules. Production, artwork, and, oh yeah, the songs. Cave In will always be one of my favorite metal/post hardcore/whatever bands.
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I’m gonna say Jupiter. Why, you ask? Simply because it contains the best writing. It has such a unique ‘happy’ atmosphere to it, perfect for summer listening. The first 5 tracks in particular are just monumentally good. The multiple digipacks was pretty cool as well (I have purple!).
Do you remember what it felt like when you first struggled free from geosynchronous orbit in search of wonderous new Jovian terrain? Do you recall the blood rush you experienced as every subatomic fiber of your body yielded to the drag and pull across the white-hot threshold of Europa? Close your eyes, light your Brain Candle and you will remember the monolithic journey you first took with Cave In’s Jupiter.
Beyond Hypothermia, because they didn’t pretend to be anyone else. They were Cave In.
Actually, I totally disagree. They were aping a lot of bands back then. They came into “being Cave In” much later.
Jupiter. If “Big Riff” doesn’t make you want to murder motherfuckers, you have no pulse.
Until Your Heart Stops-this album makes me want to destroy things.
until your hearts stops, Watch with your heart, run with your gut
Jupiter. The mixture of huge riffs, spacey effects is so epic and powerful and the band’s embrace of clean singing and pop song structures makes Jupiter a tough record to beat.
Without a doubt it’s Jupiter for me. I think it’s cause I got it when I was 17 and a lot of the music you get into in your teen years really sticks with you and that’s one of my favourite albums of all time. I was in a record store in Leeds and they were playing it over the system, it was the week it came out. I hadn’t heard it but was thinking “this song sounds a bit like Cave In, but not!” I asked and sure enough it was and there was a pile of them on the counter they’d just recieved that morning! Good times
Tides of Tomorrow. Why? Fuck you, that’s why.
Jupiter is #1 because I discovered my homosexuality to it and had gay sex to it in one night.
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I’m calling bullshit. Come on, you lost your behymen the theme from “Guys & Dolls,” didn’t you?
Personal favorite is Jupiter, though Perfect Pitch Black is a close second. Jupiter sounds like no other record–an original footprint.
For me, it’s their Live Airwaves album because of the explosion of talent that’s packed in it. Most bands seem to have songs that never leave the studio environment, and I always thought Cave In couldn’t recreate ‘Seafrost’… Live Airwaves proved me wrong. They remind me of Fugazi in the sense that they know their instruments and equipment inside and out, yet are still able to explore as many avenues as they can think of.
My favorite Cave In record is ‘Jupiter’ because I used to bone the shit out of my high school girlfriend listening to that LP. Those were some of the best boners of my life. Record was so good I used to stop to flip to the B side, and it is tough to top sex with a teenager. Story is true.
If I had to chose a Cave In album that I could say is my “favorite”, it may be Jupiter. The turnaround the band made from Until Your Heart Stops to Jupiter is pretty incredible. In a years time, they went from creating one of the most intense metal albums (a very influential album at that) to a sonic space rock album is pretty incredible. From start to finish, Jupiter takes you for a journey with amazing guitar riffs, and an insane vocal range that Steve didnt show at all on UYHS. The album set the bar high for the rest of the Cave In albums to come. Everything since Jupiter has had the same central tone but branched out from it in all different direction. My far one of my favorite albums of all time.
I am a huge Cave-In fan, so this is pretty difficult for me, but my favorite, like many, is Jupiter. I could give you a lengthy review of the album’s merits (there are many), how it marked a shift in the band stylistically, or simply how I listened to it non-stop, but I’m not going to. It’s my favorite because it taught me a lesson. I’ll explain. (Warning: ex-girlfriend story)
In 1999, at the tender age of 18, I met a girl through mutual friends. This girl was Ivy League educated, hot, five years my elder (hence, she could buy beer), and she prominently displayed a Cave-In sticker on her car. She was “Cave-In Girl” to our group of friends for at least a month. We bonded over bands, started dating, and all was well. When Jupiter came out, we obsessed over it, despite the abrupt change from Until Your Heart Stops. This chick was perfect, right? Wrrrrrong. At some point this smart, awesome chick turned into a raging, jealous nightmare. How could this be? She, like Cave-In experienced a big shift; unfortunately hers was from ‘awesome’ to ’suck’. Bad break up ensues after 2 1/2 years. The lesson? Even chicks who love the same amazing music you do can be very very bad for you. Maybe a juvenile lesson, but a damn good one to learn early.
I’d have to go with Jupiter since it was a sick new direction for the band. Love the psychedelia!
Jupiter is my favorite. More than any of their other records, it is one that has a completely unique sound. There are no other albums that I’ve heard that sound like Jupiter to me.
Jupiter is easily one the best records to come out in the last several years. That being said, Until your heart stops holds a special place in my heart.
When I was in high school, I read a review Cave In’s “until your heart stops” in metal maniacs magazine. They described it as an amalgamation of Slayer, Sunny Day Real Estate and Pink Floyd. When I bought that record after reading the review, it changed my listening habits so much…so much, in fact, that it was solely responsible for getting me into more extreme music. “Until Your Heart Stops” remains a classic favorite of mine.
until your heart stops.
why? J-U-G-G-E-R-fucking-N-A-U-T.
I think Jupiter was Cave In’s biggest accomplishment. It’s ambitious, unique, heavy, melodic and progressive. It’ll be the album that really stands the test of time. Not only do I really enjoy this record, but I think it is an important record as well. It shows another side of progressive rock. One much different than the likes of the Mars Volta for example. The songs are concise, cohesive and conceptual and never drift off on a tagent. They really paved their own sound here. There was a few years where my friends and I were desperately trying to find out how they got some of those signature guitar sounds. It was until I asked Steve Brodsky directly that I was able to find out their secrets and immediately look on ebay for my own. This has always been the record I’ve used to get people hooked on this band. I love everything Cave In has ever done but I think this record exemplifies all of the qualities that we love about them.
Favorite Cave In lp has to be Beyond Hypothermia. It was the first seriously limited vinyl I ever owned (#294 of 320 on grey) and led me down the path to poverty as I became a Cave In record collector. I had to have all the original 7″ after that and continued to collect them to this day.
Plus, to get Beyond Hypothermia I traded my friend an original X-Claim press of SSD “Get It Away”! sacrifices we make…
Creative Eclipses is my fav-cave release because i felt that luminance was the sound jupiter shouldve had,
also one of the best chorus’ssss brodskys ever written , also the cover rules on it as well,
and for the record…it is my personal opinion that BEYOND is FAR better than UNTIL.
“Until your heart stops”
Because i see dead man floating on outer space each time i hear any fucking song.
My favorite Cave In album is not technically an album, but their incredibly awesome Cassingle (yeah, I said cassingle) “Shapeshifter / Dead Already.” This is a little bit of an odd choice, but I felt like these two tracks were such an incredible follow up to “Perfect Pitch Black,” and I won’t lie when I say that Ben Koller’s drumming borders on absolute insanity. (I definitely love some JR, but when Ben brings it he certainly doesn’t hold back). The other absolutely wonderful thing about this two song jamathon is that you get the best of both worlds; one Brodsky rocker (that wouldn’t sound too out of place on “Planets of Old) and one absolutely crushing Caleb Scofield destroyer (I swear the man has the best roar next to Sean Ingram of Coalesce). Both tracks give a good indication of what could have been expected, and really what people can expect from “Planets of Old.” At the time I thought it was going to be the final bit of Cave In we were ever going to get, so I definitely spent (and continue spending) a lot of time thoroughly loving these two songs. You really can’t deny how awesome it is when everything drops out in “Dead Already,” and Cave In start getting “spacey” (who would think Cave In could get spaced out) only to return with even more thunder.
Yeah, “Jupiter” is fantastic. I sure do love that one, but I also love “Until Your Heart Stops.” “Shapeshifter / Dead Already” does it all for me though. Getting that cassette (at what was) their “final tour” could be compared to a girlfriend breaking up with you but giving you one last good one for the road. I guess with “Planets of Old” she’s come back to town, hopefully she’s looking for something more serious, but I’m okay if it’s just a one night stand.
jupiter duh. album is perfect from beginning to end. impossible to listen to any other way than in its entirety. also the fact that it was for the most part tracked live with very little overdubs makes it that much greater and proves how ridiculously skilled the guys are.
The album I choose would have to be Jupiter. I feel as thought it is metal without the stigma. It is sort of a soft but heavy with a little bit of a psychedelic feel to it.
Good people,, I come before you today, 135 years after my death to profess my unyielding love for New England rock and roll legend’s Cave In and their phonographic long player entitled “Jupiter.” Hurrah! Caroline, Mary, young Millard Jr., and myself oftentimes have found ourselves gathered around our family’s Gramophone. sugar drunk on sarsaparillas and reveling in lush, sonic landscapes on such glorious tracks like “IN the Stream of Commerce”, encapsulating us an under priced harlot, and the steam-powered rollicking of “Big Riff” which rattles young Millard Jr.’s bones like cannon-fire! Oh how we laugh! Truly “Jupiter” is by far and large, my good nation, the best Cave In album, and I only hope the magics and spells held within this wizard’s box convey that to the ability in which I am…WHAT IS THIS DEVILRY?
Until Your Heart Stops
I was a senior in high school with big hopes to manage a push-ups contest at a local park, in the winter, wearing only gym shorts and white tees, while everyone waved dollar bills and shouted.
I trained for six months and this was my soundtrack.
Jupiter without a doubt. That album should stand as a blueprint for all bands instructing how to cohesively include all of the instruments, making one sound so immense, yet still stand on its own ground, carrying you through such emotion with such vigor. The bass lines seemingly melting the drums into the rhythm guitar, as hte lead guitar soars high above. It created an experience that only word that I can think of describes it completely: Immense.
Jupiter – It represented a significant departure from cave in’s original sound which took a lot of balls to produce because of the backlash from the early metal fans. It combines both the “hardness” of their early recordings with some of the most beautiful songwriting I have ever heard.
Jupiter. Without a doubt on the horizon.
Aside from the obvious recognition the guys deserve for tracking most of the album live and being true to their musical (avant-garde/progressive) roots, this album is definitely a prime example of the genius that many artists strive to glimpse.
This album was definitely a deviation from their previous releases, involving a much more refined atmosphere that incorporated elements akin to the indie train of thought. I figured that they had an almost Radiohead like quality that they capitalized on in the Creative Eclipses EP with a lot of Brodsky’s guitar work. Despite the obvious turn for the more contemporary sound, CI managed to keep their previous musical endeavors firmly intact and definitely at the forefront of their minds while deviating from the more hardcore-ish style that defined their earlier years. This significant change in style really accentuates the range of musical motion (so-to-speak) that Brodsky had as far as his ability to ’switch’ and keep the same sort of voice for both clean and “dirty” vocals.
The album as a whole maintained a very layered feel to it, which is not to be confused with adding unneeded tracks to any given song. They achieved the maximum amount of impact with a minimalist attitude when it came to the recording and mixing process that lent itself very well to achieving the final product; a sound defined by originality and kept pure throughout an era in musical history when change was the name of the game. The vocal tracks provide the listener a journey through the soundscapes created by Brodsky’s change-up and tracks like “Innuendo and Out the Other,” or “In the Stream of Commerce” exemplify the new direction the band had taken with the release of this musical masterpiece.
Again we can see the sort of mainstream interpretation the band chose to utilize in their closing track; a sort of disharmony that engulfs the listener utterly, leaving little room for anything but amazement as the songs builds into what I personally think is one of the bands finer moments. The chorus really left me at a loss when I first heard it, and after listening through the entire record, it was more than enough to make me want to do it all over again just to hear it (of course the entire album was not unlike a way to set the stage for it…)
I for one think that it’s going to take a lot to top the work that CI put forth with this release; hell, even most of my friends who don’t even like to think of anything to do with metal or its ilk as being real music thought that most of this album was definitely better than most of the stuff they listened to, which in and of itself is a feat worthy of recognition.
Taking cues from Neurosis, Dillinger, and even Katatonia for that matter (not vocally of course, Akerfeldt’s genius is something for another time), Cave In have created a brilliant work of musical art that can only be suitable for inclusion among the stars…(*See what I did there…?*)
Personally, I hope “Planets of Old” is only the beginning of a grand new era for this amazing band.
My favorite album has got to be Jupiter, it was really a perfect mix of both there Hardcore albums and there new ‘Space Rock’ (for lack of better terms) sound. Also, seeing typical hardcore kids get bummed out over the new direction was pretty funny.
Look, I love Cave In, and I genuinely cannot pick a favorite record, because they all have their awesome moments. But let’s get to the heart of the matter here — I live in Canada, and Canadian contests are fucking terrible.
Most Canadian contests are for lock de-icer or Tim Horton’s gift certificates — so my gears really started to spin when I saw this cocksucker up for grabs. Picture this: if I were to win this… a Cave In record…this prize would most likely make me the greatest winner in Canadian history of all time, thus ensuring my spot in the Canadian Contest Book Registry!*
I would love to own this record — and if you make me one of the three winners, I will promptly use the LP to assist me in the building of my next igloo, and use it to slice the head of off a bear, which I will wear like a tauntaun** carcass to keep me warm in the winter.
(*Warning: Canadian Contest Book Registry is not an actual book.)
(**Star Wars is awesome.)
i like until your heart stops most because that opening track is like: bo do do do do do bo do do do do do do do do do. and that other track has that cool backwards guitar thing going on at the end.
There really is no such thing as a favorite Cave In record, each one posses its own unique presence and quality. Every reason I love this band is made up from each small, subtle piece in the music, whether its the lyrics, riffs, or overall instrument tones.
I can’t say, (let alone imagine) I would ever sell or part with any Cave In record I own. That goes with saying that all the vinyl I do buy or has been given to me will stay with me until I die. I dont believe in “flipping” or capitalizing on anything as sentimental and meaningful as my music.
If I do win this contest it would make my summer and make up for missing the show in Boston a few days ago.
Thanks for reading!
Brandon
PS: I do hope i dont sound like I’m spewing out tacky bullshit. I’m just being honest even though I probably sound like an idiot.
Oh come on MS guys, this one’s easy! The correct answer here would have to be their 1999 offering Beyond Hypothermia. Like a pale horse coming to tell us that the world was ending at the turn of the millennium (but being wrong), this album heralds doom and anger like a fat drunk Norseman that just caught his wife in bed with Bjorn Langstrom, the fishcatcher from the next village over.
The album starts off fuckin’ strong: the opening riff to “Moral Eclipse” comes exploding out like 100 fists clad in brass knuckles, wrapped up in a tsunami, nestled in a little bed of hurricanes, and flyin’ out of Pandora’s box.
Juggernaut, however, has to be the best track on the album. In the middle, Adam McGrath’s guitar work keeps us guessing by bringing us a riff that switches sides on the stereo spectrum: from left to right, back to left again, and then seemingly out of nowhere switches back to right, time and time again. His guitar work is like an old Asian man from an 80s movie – it keeps us guessing, but always makes sure we come out better for it in the end.
Also, this album is (I believe) the only to feature not only Jacob Bannon on vocals, but a surprise appearance by Kurt Ballou on guitar in the first (of three) segues (which are far more rewarding than the vehicles of the same name). It is like Converge and Cave In had a barbecue together and invited us all along to dine with them on braised pork, cole slaw, and collard greens.
To be sure, this album is both a masterpiece and a tour de force. Not only is it the album that springboarded (sprungboard?) my musical taste into the heavier end of the pool, but it also remains one of my favorite metal albums of all time.
until your heart stops. which sounds like an easy answer, but in a current world of beyond so many shit metal/hardcore, metalcore, deathcore, crabcore, randomwordcore bands you can still find progression being done on that album that hasn’t been duplicated since. it was and still is way ahead of its time, and is not nearly as recognized for it’s genius as it should be. the fact that i’m drunk right now proves i’m being 100% honest.
Beyond Hypothermia.
2:06 into Juggernaut an evil carnival is born, much in the vein of like-minded Converge, and as a pre-jaded high school nunce when that shit hit it was much to the avail of something Kirk Windstein might say, “planets fucking collide”.
Until Your Heart Stops, my bad…guess I’m still as dumb as I was in HS.
My favorite Cave In album would have to be Beyond Hypothermia. Every aspect of this album bleeds brutality and sheer awesomeness.
Every song on Beyond Hypothermia is worth a good listening too. I could go on forever about every song, but I would have to say my favorite tracks are Crossbearer, Capsize, and Flypaper.
Crossbearer starts of this metal masterpiece with its shadowy and mystical sounding guitar but then rips in with those hardcore screams that just tear at your ears like the cries of some uneartly thing. The line “Scream demon wind into its ears” especially fills my head with the imagery of some bestial roar from the bowels of the darkest hell. Listening to this song will get your blood pumping and your muscles will ache to release their pent up fury.
Capsize draws you into its gaping maw with feedback and a bass line that will gnaw at you. Then, suddenly, it grinds you up and spity you out when the vocals smash in. After sush a fierce chewing you expect the best is over but the songs sucks you back in with the raw emotion of the singer.
“Why won’t you die?!” The lyrics and guitar work of Flypaper just brings together I’ll ever want from a metal band and gives me hope that future artists will take in Cave In and attempt to emulate them. If this is done properly they will take their respective subgenres and rip them a new one.
I just hope the new album will Tear metal from its cross and shake it to pieces.
Not only is Beyond Hypothermia my favorite Cave In album, it is also one of my top ten favorite albums. No matter what kind of music mood I’m in this album always seems like its appropriate. I hope that all fans of heavy music will see this as the powerhouse that it is and listen too it.
I would have to say that Perfect Pitch Black is my favorite album of theirs simply because it was a return to for for them after the commercial flop Antenna turned out to be. I like Antenna a lot but when Perfect Pitch Black came out i was really pumped for it because all the hype for it was true, it really was a return to form for them. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Jupiter and Perfect Pitch Black is just awesome because I thought that was their last album and I was glad to have it end on such a high note BUT They are back and I couldnt be happier
I will always love “Until Your Heart Stops”. It seems as I get older I am better able to appreciate that album on different levels, as when I was younger I was drawn to its heavyness and/or artfulness.I fell in love with the premise that you could write a collection of amazing riffs and ignore the classic pop music ethos of verse/chorus/verse and still be incredibly catchy and memorable. As I got older I began to recognize the space rock elements to this record which are incredibly subtle compared to later works but in some ways are even more effective here. The seque’s were some of the first ambient noise stuff that I ever appreciated to some discernable level.
I think now I just see it as the culmination of 90’s metalcore. It is one of the few albums from that era that I still love and listen to on a regular basis. Despite its pretentions, it is not pretentious, and truly sounds like a bunch of friends jamming for the sake of creating art, not for record deals or the fomentation of a career in the industry. The fact is is that this genre tended to result in album that were interesting yet virtually unlistenable due to their tendency of containing songs that were more conceptual, containing several parts, rather than one or two main riffs. This album was angry, eloquent, fercious and thought provoking, and what makes it all the more legendary is that it was a capstone for their early works as they continued their evolution into a more mainstream act.
Antenna hands down, simply because it is one of my favorite records of all time.
Until your heart stops, for an album where brodsky stepped up to the mark last minute to do the vocals as the original singer left, the start of a history of genius was born and a benchmark for a lot of bands who have come since to be inspired by, just listen to every time i die’s last night in town and tell me there is no influence from this album. It has it all with soaring ethereal riffs to devastating beat-downs which paved the way for the transitional records to come next. personal favourite track Juggernaut.
Until Your Heart Stops. You see, i grew up in a very small town in Tennessee. In this town, there were not many heavy metal options. Your standards were always there, of course. Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, etc. A good friend of mine rom the “big city” of Nashville brought this album to me at a crucial point in my maleable teenage life. It effectively led me away from the emerging nu-metal fad that was to invade my town… Because of Until Your Heart Stops, there is one less JNCO-wearing, eyeliner-applying Juggalo in the world! Thank you Cave In, no matter what album it is, we ALL win!
i just like free stuff.
Well it´s easy, antenna, because it´s the easiest way to show a girl, that i can be hardcore kid with a lot of feelings, without looking emo.
Easy. Jupiter because it pissed all my friends off. They were all like, “Until Your Heart Stops is the best because whahhhh.” And I was like, “This is bold, different, spacey, and fucking good.” Now they’re all old with kids. They’ve had to sell all their CDs for onesies and diapers, and I can still rock Jupiter anytime I fucking want, and think to myself, “I was right.”
I have never heard Cave In.
So I have no favorite Cave In record.
As you might guess, this is why I need a record.
So I can have a favorite.
Thank you.
My favourite cave in album is certainly Jupiter because it was completely different from Until your heart stops. When I first got the cd I was looking forward to hearing something similar to the early stuff and this made hearing Jupiter really jaw-dropping.
My favorite Cave In record is Jupiter because its the only Cave In record I own without jizz stains on it.
So I’m travelling to Florida with my brother, reading the only music magazine on the rack in the airport (Spin) and in the center of the rag is a “Sound Advice” column highlighting Cave In and their newest record Jupiter. The despription sounded perfect for the crux I was in musically at the time.
When we got to Miami, I promptly went to Uncle Sam’s Music (now a raver-tastic CD store) and picked up the only Cave In CD they had, Beyond Hypothermia.
To this point, all hardcore had turned me off with the exception of Refused. But something about that release made me keep listening. It wasn’t until I got home that I found a copy of Jupiter from then on I was in love with their sound.
Depending on the day, a different relaese may suit my mood. Until My Heart Stops is my windows down, summer drive. Jupiter is my crisp air, fall soundtrack. The EPs serve as a quick run around town. Antenna is a headphone classic and Perfect Pitch Black serves as the catch-all along with Beyond Hypothermia, any day and any modd will do.
But to pick one, desert island Cave In record, Jupiter stands as a benchmark example of progress from a genre badly needing some breathing room.
Er…”Until YOUR Heart Stops.” Are we being graded on spelling, grammar, and factual errors?
Jupiter is my favorite because it is refreshing every time I listen to it. I even got the satellite tattoo’d on my leg the day Jupiter came out!
Until Your Heart Stops is my favorite and the best Cave In record, by far. I do enjoy the later stuff (esp perfect pitch black) but “The end of our rope is a Nose” and “Juggernaut “are 2 of the most mind blowingly awesome songs I have ever heard. Every song on this record makes other bands in the genre look like fucking retarded knuckle dragging pussies….I only wish Caleb was in the band at the time to do all the screaming..that is the only thing that “could” make it better…that would be pretty hard…a metal masterpiece…and I have it on double blue/orange vinyl. Fucking tits
Until Your Heart Stops because after it ruined my life, I realized I can use it as a sonic weapon.
Until Your Heart Stops, because “SOMETHING IS SLOWING ME DOWN!!!”
Perfect Pitch Black – a great mix of the harsh and the tender. captivates me wholly even to this day.
Give me this shit!!!
Jupiter – still is just as good when i listen to it now
Jupiter because they pulled an aesthetic 180 while still being able to kick ass!
its hard to pick cause there hasnt been a cave in release thats disapointed me…but my fav album is prob still until your heart stops…its almost mostly nostalgic, takes me right back to high school when I still had the excitement and drive to uncover every metal/hardcore/indie band i could find. anything and everything released on hydrahead never required any prior listening…
this album just flows perfectly between crushing heaviness to lost in space passages and driving indie rock…LOVE IT!
The experience and emotions tied to listening to Jupiter are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It’s an album of sparking paradox. It’s cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 43 minutes. It will cleanse your brain of those little crustaceans of worries and inferior albums clinging inside the fold of your gray matter. The harrowing sounds hit from unseen angles and emanate with inhuman genesis. When the headphones peel off, and it occurs that four men created this, it’s clear that Cave In must be the greatest band alive, if not the best since you know who. Breathing people made this record! And you can’t wait to dive back in and try to prove that wrong over and over.
Here is my pitchfork. I surrender.
It’s like asking who your favorite child is. With a gun to my head I would have to pick “Until Your Heart Stops.” This record absolutely blew me away upon first listen and still go back to this album weekly, especially my coveted double lp that stands out in my record collection. They established that it was ok to be loud and brutal but explore other sonic qualities that can make a record sound complete.
In the early part of this decade, I was working at this record store called Mad Platter where I established a connection with a lot of kids who were just getting into the “heavy” aspect of music. They would always bring horrid releases to the front counter and after a while I would begin suggesting other albums. The first one on my list was always “UYHS” with a disclaimer that if they didn’t like the record I would buy it back from them no questions asked on my dime. I probably sold a good 10-15 copies of that record (my boss would allow me to special order it) and didn’t have one return. Any of these kids could have burned the record and lied and returned it but I feel they had a special connection with it. They would immediately pick up Cave In’s other releases with open ears despite the difference in sound from record to record.
Jupiter is by far the best Cave In record and one of my favorite records period. Never gets old.
Until Your Heart Stops
-because-
at the time of it’s release, I had good taste in punk rock but shit taste in heavier stuff. I thought Slipknot and Primer 55 were hot shit. Such is the folly of those trying to discover heavier and heavier music; sometimes we just don’t know any better. The intelligent, angular brutality of Until Your Heart Stops was the proverbial coat hanger in the undeveloped cranium of my current taste in metal. Cave In gave me the best back-alley abortion I’ve ever had.
Planets Of Old….it’ll serve as a soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic state.
Almost like when Slayer released God Hates Us All on 9-11-01. fuck ya
My choice has got to be Jupiter, because to me (apart from being a damn fine record) it’s a testament to a musical philosophy that trolls like Ziltoid and anal “scene” thought-police the world over would do well to embrace: follow your fucking heart wherever it may take you, and remember, tags like “metal”, “hardcore”, “punk”, “indie”, “crunk” et al. only serve to obscure the fact that in the ultimate instance, it’s ALL, well, MUSIC, maaaan *chokes on bong hit, types it*. Partially fruity and Hallmark-ian sentiments, I know, but like all great love affairs, it proves that clichéd phrases have only become clichéd phrases due to their being handy, well-worn containers for dispensing universal truths. So, don’t worry when you notice that the path your muse has taken you down has you affecting an unsettlingly feminine falsetto while what sounds like an Alan Parsons produced Slint/Foo Fighters/Failure jam session with Syd Barret guesting on guitar* plays in the background; if you’re made of motherfucking musical genius like the guys from Cave In, you’re probably recording a masterpiece (Jupiter) and if you’re not, well, you may have your, your children’s and your children’s children’s children’s ass deservedly beaten, but along with the medical bills will come the pride of knowing you were tr00 to yourself all along.
*The fact that the combination I use to describe Jupiter’s sound ended up birthing an elegant 21st century rock masterpiece and not an unlistenable wimpy mess is surefire proof of Cave In’s songwriting talent.
Mine would have to be Jupiter. The album just works on so many levels. It delves into genres of alternative rock, space rock, and more sludge-orientated metal without any strain, or without it ever coming across as something contrived. Every so often you hear bands trying to take new artistic steps by incorporating certain modern influences, but in doing so abandon their natural song-writing abilities in favor for a sound that they don’t necessarily quite understand.
When Cave In was first described to me I was to believe they were quite a brutal metalcore act, with a sound much similar to Converge and Misery Signals. My first taste of Cave In was actually their ‘Perfect Pitch Black’ album, and I was surprised to hear nothing of the two bands in their sound, but rather the odd amalgamation of genres mentioned earlier. What surprised me most was how easily it seemed to work to their sound. This brought me to of course obtain all their earlier material to fulfill my new need for a Cave In fix.
Jupiter was actually the last album I came to, after just listening to the Creative Eclipses and Tides of Tomorrow EP’s, and that album just worked on this entirely new level. I especially love the structure for the album, considering it’s only 8 songs long, but you needn’t any more than that. A few of the songs are of considerable length, and I love the fact that that is used to the albums advantage and it was kept to 8 songs, rather than feeling a need to add more. The layers of the album are perfect, from the crushing ‘Big Riff’ to the more mellow yet epic ‘Requiem’, all the songs compliment each other perfectly.
To me this album stands up as a classic album. The greatest albums you can feel when they end, there’s a quality to them. I always feel it come the last two songs; the second last song would give you a build up to the inevitable end, and the last song actually works similar to a final scene in a film, and it gives a sense of closure to the album.
I still listen to Beyond Hypothermia all the time. The compilation may have some overly precious moments, but it also takes me back to attending hell of hardcore shows that the Merrimack Valley DIY kids threw back in the early to mid nineties.
I’m old school. I love pretty much everything Cave In does, but Until Your Heart Stops is definitely my favorite. That shit is brutal. I had not heard a sound like that before and so that will always have a special place in my heart (until it stops).
Great, Great stuff!
“Lost in the Air/Lift Off” ep—- it is what I think floating in the void of space would feel like – simultaneously vast, awe-inspiring, open, and soul-rupturing.
My favorite is probably the “Bootleg Giveaway EP”. I got it at Krazy Fest when Steven was giving them away at the merch table. I was friggin’ pumped.
At any rate, I love the Codeine and Led Zepplin covers, plus Acid Rain In The Black Forest makes me think of a camera following some weirdo on the beach. I have no idea. It would also fit in a scene on Dexter really well, but it was out long before Dexter.
Jupiter does the job for me…
it’s the evolution of heft and the melding of four distinct musical sensibilities into that heft so that each subsequent dose slaps you silly in strangely logical fashion in just the location you were expecting because you craved that singularly visceral vice-grip to the loins but gawdalmighty it’s disorienting too because you hadn’t expected it could feel so lovely with all that attendant heft but Cave In just nails it like you’ve expected they would since first bathing yourself in BH’s corpuscle-addling complexified bombast and tailing that up pronto via UYHS’s knattily attired steelage-to-the-groinal-region aural sweatlodging plus gifting yourself the motherload of all harbingers the CEep with tonal advancement qualities heretofore unbeknownst…but lo: the slab that’s JUPITER served itself up and crushed serenaded flat-out leveled with an overall loinage abdominal chest-heaving melodicized rubric you’re still trying to fathom even with what’s generously offered up since and nearly unconsciously it pummels amidst its astrally conjured chromatic riffery cohesiveness falling together like melody-fueled jigsaws of piss vinegar and there’s that heft again…always there is the heft…it’s JUPITER that still slays you and I’ll vouch that thing still slaps me to sheer silliness each time it loads so it gets my vote which ain’t worth much more than nothing but you asked so I offer it up cheers…
Jupiter.
I didn’t know what to expect and was extremely happy with the results.
Definetely, my favourite album is “Planets of Old”. WHY?!? – you ask. It pretty simple. This is the first time I have heard about this band, just moved to the page where the streaming is available and I am astonished. Just listening to it. GREAT. Now you ask once again: WHY?!? WHY HAVEN’T YOU HEARD THEM BEFORE?!? That is also pretty simple. I live in Poland, it is not easy to listen to all the bands from US, it is sometimes that you miss some important and amazing band.
Saying it in polish: “ZAJEBIASZCZE!”.
Until Your Heart Stops. The transition from Terminal Deity into Juggernaut . . . This is what kept me coming back to Cave In year-after-year. I live for moments on a record like this transition where it sounds like fire and brimstone (and like dying rainbows and dying unicorns.)
I would have to say that Perfect Pitch Black is my favorite. I really like the atmosphere and the fact that there is so much variety. I enjoy the return of the heaviness, but the fact that it also keeps the space rock elements that were somewhat absent from previous heavy works. The vocal interplay between Steve and Caleb I also really like. The fact that they keep so much ROCK in this album is what really makes it a gem. The fact that Cave In is making just, hard, fast ROCK is what keeps it going. It’s heavy, but it’s not metal, and it’s not (blank)core, it’s just ROCK. It’s great to head-bang to.
Well, this is a hard choice, I love Antenna and Perfect Pitch Black, but I’m in love with Jupiter. I grew up w/one of Cave In’s influences which was the LA based band, Failure. Jupiter is one of those albums that meshes Failure and heaviness in one–it’s the perfect album of Hard Space Rock. The lyrics are more memorable to me than the other releases. The choice of F/X on this album are superbly awesome; from Whammy to Ultra-bastard heavy Distortion. The clean channel on “Innuendo…” is tits!!! The production qualities are majestic! This is a perfect record in my opinion, but hey, I grew up on Failure, man! Heavy Space Rock Rules! And Jupiter is the epitome of this particular genre!!!
Over and over and over and over again…
Cave In – Jupiter
First time I saw Cave In live was at The Bottleneck in Lawrence, KS. They were out promoting Jupiter and it was an amazing show. The guys whipped out those old school toy guns that light up and make crazy sounds, and then used them as slides on the guitar. The record is simply epic.
Can’t wait for the new 12″.
Perfect Pitch Black is my favorite album of Cave In’s for the sole reason that on vacation, I would get systematically high beyond comprehension, go to the pool, and blast the wonderful album into my brain to absorb every perfect note.
Good times.
“Jupiter” – was the first Cave-In record I ever heard, and it was during a time when I was spending many evenings with my tear soaked hanky listening to Failure’s “Fantastic Planet” weeping over the demise of that great great band…then I heard “Jupiter”, and it was like Cave-In said “hey man, it’s cool…we miss Failure too…we even wrote a record that sounds a lot like them, let us share in your pain, and let’s rejoice in spacey heavy tunes, dude…it’ll be ok, cuz we feel that pain.” I lifted my head, dried my eyes, and remarked “this is what it must sound like, when doves cry” and took Cave-In’s hand…and all was well from then on.
Oh…”Pitch Perfect Black” is pretty swell too. I like Cave In. And vinyl.
Until Your Heart Stops is my favorite, but I like them all. Hopefully i will win this record, because it sold out in a day on vacation vinyls site.
Antenna by far. it just rulz! thats not to say the others were bad…
Beyond Hypothermia.