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Cave In release first full studio record in a decade (plus tour dates)

Posted by Matt on May 18, 2022

Cave In release first full studio record in a decade (plus tour dates)
Photo by Jay Zucco

Boston hardcore behemoths Cave In have returned with a new single and upcoming album, their first new studio album in over ten years. The single is called "Reckoning", written solely by guitarist Adam McGrath. It features on their Relapse Records debut Heavy Pendulum, released on May 20. There's a music video below for the song which McGrath describes as "somewhere between Led Zeppelin’s ‘Battle of Evermore’ and Mad Season’s ‘Long Gone Day’". 

The band are also touring extensively, covering the US, UK, Europe and more – see below for those dates and pre-order Heavy Pendulum here.

Tour dates

CAVE IN Tour Dates:

May 15 Austin, TX Oblivion Access Festival

US Headline Tour w/ Author & Punisher

July 21 Providence, RI Fete Music Hall
July 22 New York, NY Gramercy Theatre

July 23 Syracuse, NY The Lost Horizon

July 24 Pittsburgh, PA Thunderbird Music Hall

July 26 Hamtramck, MI The Sanctuary

July 27 Chicago, IL Sleeping Village

July 29 Louisville, KY Zanzabar

July 30 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle

Aug 02 Orlando, FL The Abbey

Aug 04 Baltimore, MD Ottobar

Aug 05 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts

Aug 06 Richmond, VA Browns Island (w/ Avail, Quicksand, Ceremony [No Author & Punisher])

 

EU/UK Headline Tour

w/ Stake

Oct 13 Porto, PT Amplifest *

Oct 14 Antwerp, BE Desertfest *

Oct 15 Dortmund, DE Junkyard

Oct 16 Berlin, DE Lido

Oct 17 Wiesbaden, DE Kesselhaus

Oct 19 Paris, FR Badaboum 

Oct 20 Bethune, FR La Poche

Oct 21 Nijmegen,NL Soulcrusher Fest *

Oct 24 London, UK Heaven

Oct 25 Bristol, UK The Exchange

Oct 26 Manchester, UK Gorilla

Oct 28 Glasgow, SCO Room 2

* No Stake

Cave In release first full studio record in a decade (plus tour dates)
Photo by Jay Zucco

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