CAVE IN - Creative Eclipses 12"

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- Expanded 12” includes 3 bonus tracks

- Cover design by J. Bannon of Converge

- Remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin

- Digital download of the album with purchase.

Looking through Cave In’s expansive career, between their two

most towering achievements sits the Creative Eclipses EP where

you can see everything change.

It’s been 20 years since the Boston quartet sliced canyons through

multiple scenes, starting as a corrosive hardcore band before

releasing some of the most unorthodox and exhilarating songs in

extreme music on Until Your Heart Stops. And before the aftershocks

could die down, Cave In evolved more radically than

anyone could have predicted.

While members have forged divergent paths with Old Man

Gloom, Mutoid Man, Clouds and Zozobra in the years since,

Creative Eclipses was the first signal that a band already

celebrated for their innovation could effortlessly push beyond

anything they’d tried before.

Before Jupiter could transform Cave In into rock saviors, there

were these five tracks. Opener “Luminance” is an ascendent,

shimmering hymn that bruises the troposphere. The cover of

Failure’s “Magnified,” is taken over with such fervor it feels like

something the band hatched themselves, and the acoustic “Burning

Down the Billboards” is both a revolutionary and apocalyptic

anthem. The two “Sonatas,” both ambient tracks, can wholly stand

on their own as fascinating immersions into noise.

Creative Eclipses is much more than a bridge between the two

worlds Cave In has inhabited; it’s a captivating example of the

sonic rewards that follow the band every time they’ve chosen to

obliterate expectations.

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