On March 28, 2018, Cave In’s Caleb Scofield was killed in a freak road accident. The 39-year-old bassist was driving towards a toll booth in Bedford, Massachusetts, when he attempted to change lanes, and his pick-up truck collided with a concrete barrier: he died almost instantly as the burning wreck rolled along the highway.
Survived by his wife, Jen, and the couple’s two children, 10-year-old Desmond and seven-year-old Sydney, Caleb also left behind a distraught extended musical family in the closeknit New England hardcore/metal scene, having served in Cave In for two decades. Fans crowdfunded more than $45,000 to cover his funeral expenses within two days of his death, while friends and former bandmates -Cave In, Pelican, Old Man Gloom, Isis - arranged benefit gigs, the latter ending an eight-year-long hiatus to pay tribute. Within this supportive, fecund community there were months of mourning, celebration and productivity, all swirling simultaneously.
“It was crushing,” Cave In’s drummer, John Robert ‘JR’ “When you’ve had as long a relationship with someone as we had with Caleb, it’s like dealing with a family
