Cave_In-Until_Your_Heart_Stops-1999-DVTThis was ahead of its time - in their hardcore heyday, Cave In were towering sky-high over all of their contemporaries. Cave In released the original metalcore masterpiece. They virtually invented that melodic metalcore sound that we've heard in so many modern pretenders - often imitated but never bettered. Cave In's music was complex, chaotic and often bizarrely beautiful. Songs would leap from riff to riff, with strange chord sequences giving birth to sheets of guitar noise, jarring discordance, rasped screams and unnerving clean vocals from Stephen Brodsky. Oh, and they were killer. For evidence of this, check out Halo of Flies, Moral Eclipse or, most obviously, the spaced-out brutality of Juggernaut. The most impressive thing about the record is that ten years on, despite the onslaught of wave upon wave of bad metalcore bands, it doesn't sound outdated at all. Perhaps that's because after releasing Until Your Heart Stops, Cave In decided wisely to shift to a completely different space-rock sound for their following releases, bidding farewell to the metalcore "scene" before it even showed a hint of stagnance.
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