Reunion announced

In April 2009, Cave In publicly announced they had ended their more than three-year hiatus. The band recorded a new four-song EP, Planets of Old , that was originally exclusive to vinyl from Hydra Head Records , and first made available at their reunion show on July 19, 2009, at Great Scott’s in Allston, Massachusetts. The EP was later released on CD in January 2010 with a bonus DVD of Cave In’s reunion show. Two songs from the EP, “Retina Sees Rewind” and “Cayman Tongue”, were released through iTunes. Cave In chose to make Planets of Old a short EP instead of a full-length because it was less expensive and faster to record and release. Commenting on the duration of recording, Steve Brodsky stated, “we didn’t really wanna make a big deal out of it. In the past, we’ve had more than a couple instances of spending far too long into making a recording. […] It was a good exercise for us to give ourselves a very strict amount of time to record and then move on.”