Spotify: Cave In – White Silence
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For almost their entire career Cave In’s EPs have
been harbingers of what’s to come for the band’s next full-length recordings. Creative Eclipse’s spacey
experimentalism was followed by the supernova that was Jupiter, while Tides of
Tomorrow’s more poppy leanings heralded the oft-maligned major label
release Antenna. It should be no
surprise then that after 2005’s almost retrospective sounding reunion album Perfect Pitch Black, 2010’s grinding Planets of Old EP would give way to 2011’s
full-length return to metalcore White
Silence.
Proving that you can always go home again, White
Silence bellows, chugs, and grinds its way through 35 minutes of classic-sounding
Cave In. This is a band that, despite taking some sonic detours in their time, has
managed to take the best of all possible worlds and combine them yet again.
While tracks like the titular White
Silence and Vicious Circles sound
more like a return to Until Your Heart
Stops-era Cave In, the 8 minute space-metal monster Sing My Loves, Summit Fever’s
almost progressive loftiness, and the comparatively quiet psychedelic strains of
Heartbreaks, Earthquakes all owe
something to the Jupiter era in some form and prove this is a band that has
come full circle.
Is this the last Cave In album? Who knows? I doubt
even the band members themselves know for sure. Having seen them on a small
tour in support of White Silence however gives me hope. One thing is for sure:
whether they keep making new albums or not, Cave In has risen from the ashes of
major label ruination louder, stronger, and better than ever before.
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