2/9/2024 0 Comments Nate newton cave inThe group began playing out and shared split singles with Piebald, Gambit, and Early Grace in 1996 before bringing out the "Crossbearer" b/w "Chameleon" single via Hydra Head in 1997. Taking their name from a song on the album Frigid Stars by influential heavy alternative band Codeine, Brodsky and Frechette filled out the initial lineup with guitarist Adam McGrath, bassist Justin Matthes, and drummer John-Robert Conners. Hailing from Methuen, Massachusetts, Cave In was formed in 1995 by guitarist Stephen Brodsky and vocalist Jay Frechette. Three years later, they issued the punitive Heavy Pendulum. The band was only sporadically active through the 2010s, but they returned to duty to honor a fallen comrade on 2019's Final Transmission. The band adopted a more accessible attack, adding pop flavors to the edgy metal guitars for their major-label debut 2003's Antenna, but they dialed up the heaviness when they returned to the indies on releases like 2011's White Silence. Built from parts scavenged from heavy metal, indie rock, and progressive rock, early albums like 1998's Until Your Heart Stops documented Cave In's style featuring a strong thrash-metal accent along with a noisy undercurrent, but a greater sense of adventure came into focus on 2000's Jupiter, whose sound was likened to a cross between metalcore and Radiohead. And you know and and I understood that that that was I felt like all of our little, little, you know, community was kind of coming from that same mindset.”Massachusetts-based rock band Cave In is known for music that's as sophisticated as it is hard hitting. Let’s make sense of all this.” I think back then there was a real desire to not only, you know, be technically proficient, which, again, makes me wonder why the hell they wanted me to play bass, but also to war all your influences on your sleeve and Kurt were into a pretty wide range of music and so I think they just really wanted to show like I’m not you know, we aren’t just this one thing. He comes up with so many ideas that it’s like, kind of it bowls you over at first. Like he, nobody else thinks like Kurt, that and he. Let’s just see what happens.” Nate Newton on where Converge’s unique sound come from: I think what I’m getting at is that with this project, though, it’s so different and it’s so much its own thing that I really feel like this is like the first time musically or creatively I’ve felt like there is just no limits put on it. I like the idea of bringing in that visual aspect it seems really daunting to me because it’s just something that I’ve never been able to do. It’s always been like, you get up there, and you take nothing, and you make it into something. Coming from playing hardcore it’s always been the antithesis of that. And now we’re just waiting to dump the garbage cans back on ourselves.Ĭhelsea has toured with a stage set and she’s very particular about her visuals, and how her live set is presented. Had COVID not happened, we probably would have already been done recording an album, but everything got thrown into the you know, into the garbage. But we have a lot of material to work with. We had a few rehearsals where at least all the East Coast people got together and you know, worked on some ideas and sent those to Ben and Chelsea. Nate: “It’s just been everybody like sending ideas around and then people adding to them. Yeah, my imagination really has been running wild with it, and I’m stoked to jump back in when we can.” Going into Blood Moon I was really excited to sort of conceptualise that to some of the stuff that we were writing and expand upon it and, you know, having everybody chiming in and that sort of way, so, I don’t know. Stephen: “One of my favourite Converge songs is “Worms Will Feed.” And the thing I love about that song aside from being just like a slow burning bruiser is the vocal orchestration – the way that the vocals are spread out between Nate, Jake and Kurt. Kurt and I have discussed this.” Nate & Stephen on their new collaborative band Blood Moon with Chelsea Wolfe: And just as a real primal, just quintessential sonically ear pleasing scoop. Stephen: “I was really impressed by what Kurt and I call “The Scoop” in Nate’s voice that’s that like this rising thing that comes from the guttural insides and it’s got an upwards trajectory from the soul projected out of the mouth hole. Steve Brodsky on Nate Newton and “The Scoop”: Watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Highlights from our hour-long conversation are below. In this week’s edition of The Void 3:33 podcast, Converge bassist Nate Newton and Steve Brodsky of Cave In discuss their shared and untold history of Boston hardcore, their new band with Chelsea Wolfe, new music with almost all of their bands and lots more.
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