Caldera was founded by guitarplayer Björn in January 2002. It started out as a 5-piece hardcore band, but soon a second singer joined them to provide a two-vocal sound. As each bandmember came from another background (deathmetal, hardcore, punkrock,) songs with a mix of different styles were created soon. Bands like Hatebreed, Sepultura, Pantera, Morbid Angel, Madball and Biohazard were definitely very important for the sound of Caldera back then. No-bullshit and straightforward in yer face hardhitting metalcore was what we stood for. Musically as well as lyrically. 2 weeks before the first show, CALDERA was chosen as the band's name.

The 1st of November of that year was an important day for Caldera. Their first gig took place and there was a lot of response. Many thanks go out to the people who were there to support. After playing this gig, 2 more shows were added. From then on they had the opportunity to play a lot of shows in different places around Antwerp. Months went by, and a demo was the next step! In spring 2003, guitarplayer Jevon managed to record a demo cd called: "demons won't run over!" containing 4 tracks plus a live song. The sound of this demo can be described as brutal, raw and static mosh-it-up metalcore. After two years, Caldera have played over 60 gigs. Most of them took place in homecountry Belgium, but they also did some in Holland, Luxembourg and even Spain. These gigs were known because a high level of amusement. Whether they dressed themselves, used (theatre)blood, danced on a commercial technobeat or told jokes all the time in between songs, throwed party-attributes all over the place there was almost always something surprising to show that hardcore should be about fun and not about being tough or cool. Because of these acts, people started to call our style brutal party mosh.

Recently, the bands line-up needed to be changed drastically. They lost their drummer, their bassplayer and one singer. Luckily, it didnt take too much time to find replacers and they also decided to move on with just one singer. After a couple of fine rehearsals they managed to record their 2nd demo: "Iamtrash" at Dé Studio in Asse witch contains 5 mosh-it-up, furious and energetic songs. At this moment, the band is busy writing new material which will definitely be more dynamic. The songs will contain more melodic parts varied with hard-blasting moshparts. By reading the word melodic, dont expect Caldera to become an emo-band! Your pants will be moshed off like never before. There will just be lots more of variation, musically and vocally!