Cave In play Counter Weight Brewing in Cheshire on Feb. 6

The Massachusetts heavy-music veterans book a Saturday at the brewery that has quietly become one of Connecticut's busiest punk and metal stops.

This fall, the calendar at Counter Weight Brewing in Cheshire read like a mixtape for anyone raised on heavy music: Deltron 3030 at the end of September, Norma Jean, Insomniac and Heavy Temple in early October, Agnostic Front on Oct. 16. Now the brewery has added one more name that will get attention well beyond the county line. Cave In play Counter Weight Brewing Co. on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2027, at 7 p.m., a show announced Oct. 29 with tickets through OpenDate.

For a band of Cave In's standing, it's a smaller stop. JamBase puts their usual headline room at about 625 capacity, and a brewery taproom makes for a closer, louder night than that.

Cave In's most recent full-length is *Heavy Pendulum*, released on Relapse Records as their first album since 2019's *Final Transmission*, as Treble reported when it was announced. That record came after loss: bassist and vocalist Caleb Scofield was killed in a car crash, and Metal Insider covered guitarists Stephen Brodsky and Adam McGrath first playing together again in his honor at Roadburn.

The band has kept busy since. They're on the bill for Converge's Saddest Day alongside Baroness and Pig Pen, according to Lambgoat. Brodsky has a forthcoming covers album, *Cut to the Core Vol. 2*, which Decibel previewed with his take on Neurosis' "Under the Surface," and a new project, New Idea Society, with Mike Law that signed to Relapse this year, per Lambgoat. Brodsky and McGrath have also been doing acoustic duo dates in the Boston area.

None of that has been a new Cave In record yet, and nothing announced so far says this show is tied to one. What it is: a chance to see a band that has spent decades moving between hardcore, metal and space rock, in a room that has been building a reputation for exactly this kind of booking.

Counter Weight itself moved to Cheshire from Hamden, as Patch reported, and its Diana Court space has since turned into a regular venue. Beyond the heavy shows, its calendar has included indie bands like ovlov, stand-up comedy and record fairs with DJs and food trucks. The brewery's place in the local scene has been the subject of conversation before, including a Red Scroll Records podcast with Counter Weight's Matt Westfall.

A band that has spent decades moving between hardcore, metal and space rock, in a room built for exactly this kind of booking.

For Hartford-area fans, Cheshire is a short drive, and a 7 p.m. Saturday start leaves the rest of the night open. Tickets for a smaller-than-usual room tend to go fast once word spreads, so don't wait until February.

Bring earplugs. Get a pint. Stand close.

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