Comments on: CAVE IN CONTEST: WIN A PLANETS OF OLD LIMITED EDITION COLOR VINYL!

By: greg

greg — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:57:47 +0000

Beyond Hypothermia.

By: Aled

Aled — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:12:34 +0000

Antenna by far. it just rulz! thats not to say the others were bad…

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By: Justin Holder

Justin Holder — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:34:28 +0000

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.

By: O Goody

O Goody — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:05:15 +0000

“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.

By: Masonic Wehrmacht

Masonic Wehrmacht — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:19:47 +0000

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.

By: Jeff Bilberry

Jeff Bilberry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:59:34 +0000

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″.

By: Hobcob

Hobcob — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:37:44 +0000

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…

By: Oliver Campbell

Oliver Campbell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:19:20 +0000

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.

By: Cory Pelc

Cory Pelc — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:53:40 +0000

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.)

By: Maciej

Maciej — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:49:20 +0000

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!”.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:36:40 +0000

Jupiter.

I didn’t know what to expect and was extremely happy with the results.

By: Christopher John McNally

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:33:10 +0000

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…

By: Brian Ballard

Brian Ballard — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:34:11 +0000

Jupiter does the job for me…

By: Dana White

Dana White — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:35 +0000

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.

By: B

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:10:09 +0000

“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.

By: Benjamin Savage

Benjamin Savage — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:32:24 +0000

Great, Great stuff!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:21:46 +0000

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).

By: Zosimus

Zosimus — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:11:46 +0000

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.

By: Louis Gaudet

Louis Gaudet — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:21:38 +0000

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.