Forget Master of Puppets and the ever-evolving D&D discs of Mastodon for a minute. If there’s one metal record we reach for on a regular basis, it’s Cave In‘s first proper full-length, the decade-old Until Your Heart Stops. A dizzying array of chord-climbing riffs, speaker-rattling vocals and traumatic time changes—not to mention the anvil-dropping rhythm section of drummer J.R. Conners and bassist Caleb Scofield—it’s a prime example of masochistic pop music, catchy but chaotic stuff that wouldn’t sound out of place while driving your car off a cliff.

In fact, it’s so chaotic that the band often claims they can’t play certain parts anymore. They’ll get a chance to tonight, as Cave In continues its post-hiatus run of rare shows at the Knitting Factory’s new Brooklyn location. We recently caught up with frontman Stephen Brodsky and asked him to give us a run through of the band’s overwhelming back catalog, from the totally ’90s hardcore of their first 7-inch to the $250,000 RCA tossed out the window while Cave In created the most bloated record of their career.

While you read, be sure to grab our playlist of crucial Cave In cuts from the past 13 years.