A Boston band that never settled into one sound, shifting from hardcore to atmospheric rock and back.
For a quick sense of their range, put 'Everest' next to something like 'Crossbearer'. One floats, the other hits hard, that's Cave In in a nutshell.
Listen to 'Jupiter' from their 2000 album of the same name, and you can hear the band pulling away from pure metal into something spacier and more melodic. That turn defined a lot of their later work, even as they'd circle back to heavier tracks like 'Bottom Feeder'. They carved out a particular spot in the Boston scene by refusing to stay in one lane.
They formed in Boston around 1995 and put out a raw, experimental debut called 'Until Your Heart Stops'. The 2000 album 'Jupiter' marked a clear shift toward atmospheric rock, and later records like 'Perfect Pitch Black' and 'Beyond Hypothermia' showed them moving between darker, heavier sounds and that melodic pull.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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