Jupiter 25

Back in 2023 I bought a copy of the deluxe 25th anniversary pressing of Cave In's classic LP 'Until Your Heart Stops' which was put out as a 4 x LP box set. I went out of my way to get hold of the clear vinyl version, as it was the rarest and best looking version.

So here we are two years later, and pretty much the exact same thing has happened, but this time with their second LP 'Jupiter'. The only difference this time around is that the deluxe version of the record is a 3 x LP, rather than a 4 x LP. I was keen to get my hands on this thing as 'Jupiter' is probably in my top ten records of all time.

Relapse describes the record as a 'super limited, one-time press Deluxe 3xLP Boxset housed in a custom designed hardcover 3xLP book sheathed in a rigid board slipcase'. Does that make sense? Not sure. But the outer box / slip case is absolutely beautiful.

From the outer box, the inner booklet sleeve thing slides out sideways:

The booklet style sleeve then opens up, and the records slide out from the top of the 'pages'.

And turning the next page reveals another couple of pages and another record. As previously mentioned, there are three records inside this package.

And as well as a booklet in a box, there is also a two sided photo collage insert. I took a photo of one side.

So the next question is... how did they manage to take a single LP and spread it across three records? Well, by cramming a bunch of extra shit on there is the answer. It includes some demo versions of the songs and also a live set recorded a local Boston radio station back in October of the year 2000. Is this stuff necessary? Well, probably not. But it helps spread it out across three records which kinda justifies the existence of the box.

I was keen to get this on clear vinyl. Relapse Records always makes 100 copies of every release on clear vinyl, and these are in theory not available to the public, but available to friends of band and label only. Technically I'm not in either of those groups, but I found a way to get one as I usually do with Relapse releases that I have an interest in. And given that all other versions are on various splatter colours, this is literally the only version that looks vaguely acceptable.

What's also mindblowing to me is the numbers of this thing that were pressed. In total there are 1,211 copies of the deluxe 3xLP spread across 4 different colours of vinyl. But there are also a further 7,633 copies of the less exciting 2xLP version, spread across 5 different colours of vinyl. That's close to 9,000 copies on vinyl in total, and 18,899 individual discs pressed... which seems crazy to me, but is I guess a measure of how popular records are in 2025.