CAVE INMassachusetts-based rock band Cave In is known for music that's as sophisticated as it is hard hitting.Built from parts scavenged from heavy metal, indie rock, and progressive rock, early albums like1998'sUntil Your Heart Stopsdocumented Cave In's style featuring a strong thrash-metal accent alongwith a noisy undercurrent, but a greater sense of adventure came into focus on 2000'sJupiter, whosesound was likened to a cross between metalcore andRadiohead. The band adopted a more accessibleattack, adding pop flavors to the edgy metal guitars for their major-label debut 2003'sAntenna, butthey dialed up the heaviness when they returned to the indies on releases like 2011'sWhite Silence. Theband was only sporadically active through the 2010s, but they returned to duty to honor a fallencomrade on 2019'sFinal Transmission. Three years later, they issued the punitiveHeavy Pendulum.Hailing from Methuen, Massachusetts, Cave In was formed in 1995 byguitaristStephen BrodskyandvocalistJay Frechette. Taking their name from a song on the albumFrigid Starsby influential heavyalternative bandCodeine,BrodskyandFrechettefilled out the initial lineup with guitaristAdamMcGrath, bassist Justin Matthes, and drummerJohn-Robert Conners. The group began playing out andshared split singles withPiebald,Gambit, andEarly Gracein 1996 before bringing out the "Crossbearer"b/w "Chameleon" single via Hydra Head in 1997.The band set out on an East Coast tour after the singleappeared, but the tour ended early whenFrechettedropped out and joinedTen Yard Fight.DaveScrodtook over as lead singer, but he parted company with Cave In shortly before they began work ontheir first full length album, andSteven Brodskybegan serving double duty as vocalist and guitarist,whileCaleb Scofieldsigned on as their bassist.Until Your Heart Stopswas released in 1998, and theband set out on a long and far-reaching tour in support. In 1999, Cave In added new wrinkles to theirapproach onthe EPCreative Eclipses, where they began experimenting with prog rock structures, and2000'sJupiterdove even deeper into progressive sounds. The album was hailed in the music press, andmajor labels began scouting the band. After another EP for Hydra Head, 2002'sTides of Tomorrow, theystruck a deal with RCA for their next release.Cave In's first album for RCA,Antenna, was issued in 2003, and the band hit the road hard to promote it,appearing on the second stageof that year's Lollapalooza Festival and touring Europe as theFooFighters' opening act. The album was more accessible but still decisively hard and was well-regarded byreviewers,but when the group began reaching back to their metal roots on their next batch of songs,RCA was not pleased and the label parted ways with the band. They renewed their association withHydra Head and returned withPerfect Pitch Blackin 2005. After the album hit stores,John-RobertConnersleft the group, andBen Koller(ex-Converge) became Cave In's drummer. The job didn't lastlong forKoller, as Cave In issued a statement in November 2006 that they were going on hiatus,andAdam McGrathformed another group,Clouds.In July 2009, Cave In were back in action, playing a reunion show at Great Scott in Allston,Massachusetts, and issuing a four-song EP, Planets of Old; this lineup featuredBrodskyandMcGrathonguitars,Scofieldon bass, andConnerson drums. The Great Scott show was recorded in audio and video,and a DVD of the concert was included in an expanded edition of Planets of Old. While Cave In wereback together, the group took on a less-demanding touring schedule, and it wasn't until 2011 that theyunveiled their first full-length album since getting back together,White Silence. After a tour followingthe release ofWhite Silence, Cave In once again became inactive as the members pursued otherprojects, though they played a one-off show in 2014 opening forDoomriders. In late 2017 and early2018, Cave In began rehearsing and writing material with an eye toward releasing new music. The

project took an abrupt turn on March 28, 2018 whenCaleb Scofielddied in an auto accident.Devastated by the loss of their longtime bassist, Cave In staged a handful of memorial benefit shows toraise money forScofield's family, with his sibling Kyle Scofield andNate Newtonof thebandConvergesitting in. Recordings from the 2017 and 2018 songwriting sessions were reworked for arelease to honorScofield's memory; the subsequent album,Final Transmission, was issued by HydraHead in June 2019. The band addedNewtonto its roster in an official manner ahead of the release of2022's punishing and aptly namedHeavy Pendulum, which marked their debut outing for RelapseRecords.