One of the few things we enjoyed during the hight of the pandemic was the series of cover videos rolled out by Two Minutes To Late Night, who paired up various musicians to bang out inspired quarantine covers of classics by Danzig, Guns N’ Roses and others. It was truly a time and a place, and we’ll never say you had to be there, but the new video from Cave In are making us weirdly nostalgia for that recent, yet still long-gone, time.
The Massachusetts titans have enlisted Jordan Olds and Drew Kaufman of Two Minutes To Late Night to film and direct their new video for “Blood Spiller.” The thunderous track will be featured on the progressive metal band’s new album, Heavy Pendulum, out May 20. It’s Cave In’s first new studio record in more than a decade, and marks their debut with Relapse Records.
“If you laid out the timeline for 2020 like a recipe, it might look something like this: Global pandemic + lockdowns + worldwide protests over the wrongful death of George Floyd + election year = cocktail for end times,” says guitarist and vocalist Stephen Brodsky. “Somewhere in that concoction, we found ingredients for a new Cave In album.”
Brodsky adds: “‘Blood Spiller’ is the sound of us swallowing it, getting ripped on the horrors within, and coming down to reflect on it through song.”
Quarantine with it, for old times sake, below.