Before their next album, Cave In began experimenting with their sound with Creative Eclipses, a five-song EP which indicated a new space rock direction. Their next album was Jupiter, released in 2000. The album received a good deal of press including a feature in Spin Magazine, in which they were described as an "emo-metal Radiohead," which Cave In would reject. The album also caught the attention of major labels who began courting the band after its release. The band released the six-song EP Tides of Tomorrow on Hydra Head Records before accepting a deal from RCA Records.
In 2003, Cave In released their major debut album Antenna. It had more success than their previous albums and earned them a spot on the second stage of 2003's Lollapalooza tour. After Lollapalooza, they toured Europe in support of Foo Fighters and Muse. Shortly after, the band began to revisit their metal roots during concerts, and new heavy material led to a mutual agreement to cut ties with RCA Records. Cave In returned to Hydra Head Records and released Perfect Pitch Black on September 13, 2005.
Following the release of Perfect Pitch Black, Conners departed from the band due to an injury and temporarily relocating to Germany. He was replaced by Converge drummer Ben Koller. In November of 2006, Cave In announced an indefinite hiatus.
In April of 2009, Cave In announced that they had ended their hiatus. With Conners back in the band, they had recorded a four-song EP titled Planets of Old which was initially made available on vinyl at their reunion show on July 19, 2009 at Great Scott in Allston, MA. The EP was released on CD in January 2010 with a bonus DVD of the show. The band released their fifth album White Silence on May 24, 2011.
After tours in support of White Silence, Cave In entered an undeclared semi-hiatus state as all of the band members shifted focus on their other respective side-projects. Brodsky had moved to New York City and formed Mutoid Man with Ben Koller and bassist Nick Cageao, Conners and McGrath had formed Nomad Stones, and Scofield was a member of Old Man Gloom and his own band Zozobra. On December 7, 2014, they performed live for the first time in 3 years, opening for Doomriders' tenth anniversary show. They wouldn't begin formally writing new material until February 2018.
On March 28, 2018, Caleb Scofield was killed in a car accident in Bedford, New Hampshire, on his way home from jamming with Cave In in their Boston rehearsal space. The band then put the new album on hold in favor of touring in honor of him, his wife, and their two children. Major memorial performances included a Boston show with Converge, a Los Angeles show with a one-off reunion of Isis, and an acoustic performance with Brodsky and McGrath at that year's Jacob Bannon-curated Roadburn Festival. This set was recorded and released as Live at Roadburn 2018: Tribute to Caleb Scofield.
On January 2, 2019, Cave In announced plans to release their first studio album in eight years. This album was released as Final Transmission on June 7, 2019 through Hydra Head Records. Mixed by Andrew Schneider, mastered by James Plotkin, and with artwork by Aaron Turner, it consists of practice-space demos featuring Scofield on every song. Hydra Head has been mostly inactive since 2012 but, as the band's main home for the majority of its career, they worked together to release this album. Half of the proceeds will be given to his wife and children.
Everest
Cave In Lyrics
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Echo back to me the opposite way
Everything I've read spinning round my head
Let's escape to where the air is cold and thin
Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh, I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
Ghosts are dancing around the mime
Haunted by the sense of passing time
Dreamers know the way to survive the day
They'll escape the where the air is cold and thin
Oh,I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh,I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know
All the film has been exposed
In my photographic memory, I suppose
When it rain, it pours screaming through the doors
Every pain and pent-up eyesore I recall
Oh,I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh,I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know
Oh,I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh,I might have believed, though now I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
The lyrics to Cave In's song Everest are fairly cryptic but seem to revolve around the themes of disillusionment, nostalgia, and the search for escape. The opening lines suggest a sense of confusion, as the singer hears their own thoughts and words echoed back to them in an opposite or distorted manner. This could represent a feeling of being unable to articulate oneself or feeling that one's words are being misinterpreted.
The following lines reference a desire to escape to a place where the air is cold and thin, possibly indicating a yearning for a remote or isolated location. The repeated refrain of "Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest" seems to suggest that the singer once had faith in something grander or more transcendent but has since become jaded or disillusioned. The reference to Everest, the world's highest mountain, could be symbolic of the idea of reaching great heights or achieving something magnificent, but also carries connotations of danger and risk.
The later verses introduce the idea of ghosts and the passing of time, with dreamers as a metaphor for those who are able to survive or transcend the mundane. The line "All the film has been exposed / In my photographic memory, I suppose" suggests a sense of fullness or saturation, as if the singer has witnessed or experienced everything they need to in order to move forward. The final lines of the song repeat the refrain about believing in a miracle, but with a sense of finality or resignation, as the singer declares that they no longer want to know.
Line by Line Meaning
I hear things I tried to say
I hear myself contradicting what I wanted to say earlier
Echo back to me the opposite way
The thoughts in my head seem to contradict each other
Everything I've read spinning round my head
The things I've read are overwhelming me
Let's escape to where the air is cold and thin
Let's get away from here to a desolate place
Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
In the past, I may have believed in a divine intervention or supernatural occurrence
Oh, I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
I may have had hope, but now I feel let down
And for all I care
It doesn't matter to me
I don't want to know
I don't want to learn any more about it
Ghosts are dancing around the mime
The spirits of the past are haunting me
Haunted by the sense of passing time
I am overwhelmed by the feeling that time is slipping away from me
Dreamers know the way to survive the day
Idealists understand how to cope with the hardships of life
They'll escape to where the air is cold and thin
They'll seek refuge in an isolated environment
All the film has been exposed
All truths have been revealed
In my photographic memory, I suppose
I remember everything vividly
When it rain, it pours screaming through the doors
When it's bad, it's really bad
Every pain and pent-up eyesore I recall
I remember every unpleasant experience I've had
Contributed by Alexandra R. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Marco Peláez Fernández
Its a pleasure to be the first person commenting on this, and Im not gonna say a word about it as the song speaks by itself..
..mmmmh...What a wonderful way to end a brilliant album.. Shit, I couldnt help it..
Ottokard
2nd