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Destroy All Lines & Pelagic Records presentsTHE OCEAN (GER)+ CAVE IN (USA) + LLNN (DK)Acclaimed post-metal band THE OCEAN return to Australia this June for their first headline tour in almost a decade. The Germany-based group stunned audiences across the nation on their 2023 tour with Ne Obliviscaris and Rivers of Nihil, but couldn’t wait to follow up and cement their glory with their biggest Australian production yet and a tour package of their own featuring the legendary US metal/hardcore pioneers CAVE IN for their first-ever Australian shows, and insanely heavy Danish label mates LLNN.2023 also saw the release of the band’s ninth album Holocene - the heavily conceptual collective’s most exploratory and varied release yet - and the conclusion of the paleontological era they began with 2018’s Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic and continued with 2020’s Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic. Having flirted more with extreme metal influences on these records than ever before, the arrival of Holocene saw the band - lead by guitarist and mastermind Robin Staps - forge a new path into a world of looped electronics and more subtle melodic experimentation while philosophically reflecting on humanity as always, this time on the nascent realities of a post-pandemic world. Formed in 1995 in Massachusetts by singer/guitarist Stephen Brodsky, CAVE IN was ahead of its time from the very beginning, helping to define the then-primitive metalcore genre with a more creatively elevated slant on their 1998 debut album Until Your Heart Stops. Not content to remain pigeonholed, the band veered into more accessible psychedelic ‘space rock’ sounds on subsequent releases before a brief hiatus in the mid 2000s. After the tragic death of bassist/vocalist Caleb Schofield in 2018, Converge bassist Nate Newton picked up his friend’s instrument and the band was able to continue on its legacy, resulting in their seventh album - 2022’s Heavy Pendulum (Relapse Records) - a culmination of all the sounds the band had explored throughout their tenure and then some, with universal praise labeling it everything from sludge metal to post-grunge and even thrash. Rounding out this trio into a certified powerhouse of thinking man’s metal with some unsubtle bludgeoning, Denmark’s LLNN sound like the apocalypse on steroids. Signed to The Ocean’s own Pelagic Records, this absolutely crushing four piece unleash vicious sonic textures atop of a percussive barrage of unhinged rhythmic destruction. Three albums deep, 2021’s Unmaker is a pillar of sonic force so insanely heavy that words fall short. Tickets on sale 10am local time Friday February 23. https://www.theoceancollective.com/https://pelagic-records.com/
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Cave In Biography
Cave In is an alternative/metalcore band that formed in 1995, in Methuen, Massachusetts.
The group's early work on Hydra Head Records was more extreme and chaotic in the style of bands like Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan, but their later output appears to be influenced by a wider range of styles. Their 2003 album Antenna (released on RCA Records) has had more success than previous albums and enabled the band to play the second stage on the 2003 Lollapalooza tour. However, playing Lollapalooza didn't garner the band enough financial success to prevent them from being dropped from RCA Records' roster. Although the albums before Jupiter had alluded to melodic yearnings within the group, the throat injuries of lead vocalist Stephen Brodsky clinched the band's decision to move forward with the group's present, more euphonious sound and abandon their metalcore leanings.
Most of Cave In's recent material can be categorized as space rock, using themes centering around space. Examples of this are the songs Jupiter and New Moon, album names Jupiter and Antenna, and the band's singular brand of resonating ambient "spacey" guitar effects they incorporate into their songs.
Cave In released a new album, entitled Perfect Pitch Black, on September 13, 2005 on Hydra Head Records. Perfect Pitch Black is a quasi-return to Cave In's metalcore roots, integrating heavy metal-esque vocals and guitar progressions into their well-developed space/prog-rock influences that they've been utilizing since Jupiter.
John-Robert has since departed from Cave In and has been replaced by drummer Ben Koller, who will balance drumming duties in Cave In as well as his primary band, Converge.
Current Lineup
* Stephen Brodsky - Vocals/Guitars
* Caleb Scofield - Bass
* Adam McGrath - Guitars
* Ben Koller - Drums
Former members
* John-Robert Connors - Drums
* Jay Frechette - Vocals
* Dave Scrod - Vocals
* Justin Matthes - Bass
* Andy Kyte - Bass
Discography
* Demo (independently released, 1995)
* Cave In / Gambit split 7" (Son of Sam Records, 1996)
* Cave In / Early Grace split 7" (Independence Records, 1996)
* Cave In / Piebald split 7" (Moo Cow Records)
* Self-Titled 7 (Hydra Head Records, 1997)
* Beyond Hypothermia (a compilation of Cave In's split record contributions, re-recorded with Brodsky on vocals) (Hydra Head Records, 1997)
* Until Your Heart Stops (Hydra Head Records, 1998)
* Creative Eclipses EP (Hydra Head Records, 1999)
* Cave In / Children split 7" (Overcome Records, 2000)
* Jupiter (Hydra Head Records, 2000)
* Lift-Off Single (Hydra Head Records, 2002)
* Tides Of Tomorrow (EP) (Hydra Head Records, 2002)
* Antenna (RCA Records, 2003)
* Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head Records, 2005)
Side projects
* Kid Kilowatt (Stephen Brodsky's side project)
* Old Man Gloom (Caleb Scofield's side project)
* New Idea Society (Stephen Brodsky's side project)
* Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum (Stephen Brodsky's side project)
* Zozobra (Caleb Scofield's side project)
* Clouds (Adam McGrath's side project)
Read MoreThe group's early work on Hydra Head Records was more extreme and chaotic in the style of bands like Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan, but their later output appears to be influenced by a wider range of styles. Their 2003 album Antenna (released on RCA Records) has had more success than previous albums and enabled the band to play the second stage on the 2003 Lollapalooza tour. However, playing Lollapalooza didn't garner the band enough financial success to prevent them from being dropped from RCA Records' roster. Although the albums before Jupiter had alluded to melodic yearnings within the group, the throat injuries of lead vocalist Stephen Brodsky clinched the band's decision to move forward with the group's present, more euphonious sound and abandon their metalcore leanings.
Most of Cave In's recent material can be categorized as space rock, using themes centering around space. Examples of this are the songs Jupiter and New Moon, album names Jupiter and Antenna, and the band's singular brand of resonating ambient "spacey" guitar effects they incorporate into their songs.
Cave In released a new album, entitled Perfect Pitch Black, on September 13, 2005 on Hydra Head Records. Perfect Pitch Black is a quasi-return to Cave In's metalcore roots, integrating heavy metal-esque vocals and guitar progressions into their well-developed space/prog-rock influences that they've been utilizing since Jupiter.
John-Robert has since departed from Cave In and has been replaced by drummer Ben Koller, who will balance drumming duties in Cave In as well as his primary band, Converge.
Current Lineup
* Stephen Brodsky - Vocals/Guitars
* Caleb Scofield - Bass
* Adam McGrath - Guitars
* Ben Koller - Drums
Former members
* John-Robert Connors - Drums
* Jay Frechette - Vocals
* Dave Scrod - Vocals
* Justin Matthes - Bass
* Andy Kyte - Bass
Discography
* Demo (independently released, 1995)
* Cave In / Gambit split 7" (Son of Sam Records, 1996)
* Cave In / Early Grace split 7" (Independence Records, 1996)
* Cave In / Piebald split 7" (Moo Cow Records)
* Self-Titled 7 (Hydra Head Records, 1997)
* Beyond Hypothermia (a compilation of Cave In's split record contributions, re-recorded with Brodsky on vocals) (Hydra Head Records, 1997)
* Until Your Heart Stops (Hydra Head Records, 1998)
* Creative Eclipses EP (Hydra Head Records, 1999)
* Cave In / Children split 7" (Overcome Records, 2000)
* Jupiter (Hydra Head Records, 2000)
* Lift-Off Single (Hydra Head Records, 2002)
* Tides Of Tomorrow (EP) (Hydra Head Records, 2002)
* Antenna (RCA Records, 2003)
* Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head Records, 2005)
Side projects
* Kid Kilowatt (Stephen Brodsky's side project)
* Old Man Gloom (Caleb Scofield's side project)
* New Idea Society (Stephen Brodsky's side project)
* Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum (Stephen Brodsky's side project)
* Zozobra (Caleb Scofield's side project)
* Clouds (Adam McGrath's side project)
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