50 Best Cave Songs for IG Reels & Stories

Best Songs for Cave Vibes on Instagram

There’s something odd about caves. Not the tourist kind with neat handrails, but the ones where damp air hits your lungs and sound bounces until it feels heavier than it should. The right track in that setting isn’t light or easy. It hangs in the air, echoing off the walls, pulling that weird hush into the music itself. Some songs lean into the mystery, others fight against it, and a few feel like they got lost in the dark right alongside you. Even when a track isn’t literally about caves, it can still latch onto that atmosphere and hold it steady.

Caves carry that tension between wonder and unease. You might be snapping a photo with a flashlight beam cutting across the rock, or maybe filming shadows that look stranger than they are. The soundtrack matters. A soft folk ballad can tilt the mood into something fragile, while heavy drums can make the space feel alive. This is where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs all find their way in, bending to the echo and layering that mood into something people want to pause on when scrolling.

It’s not a clean vibe, not polished, not built for comfort. It’s echoing laughter that sounds almost wrong, footsteps kicking up dirt, a melody that feels too big for the space but somehow fits. These songs capture that strange balance and push it through your phone speakers until it sticks in your chest. Here are the best cave songs for Instagram reels and stories.

1. 'The Cave' by Mumford & Sons

2. 'Creep' by Radiohead

3. 'Cave Song' by Pretty Vicious

4. 'Red Right Hand' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5. 'In the Woods Somewhere' by Hozier

6. 'The Suburbs' by Arcade Fire

7. 'Take Me to Church' by Hozier

8. 'Deep Down' by Alok, Never Dull, Kenny Dope, Ella Eyre, Crystal Waters

9. 'Lying in the Hand of God' by The Fray

10. 'Echoes of Time' by Kevin MacLeod

11. 'Into the Mystic' by Van Morrison

12. 'Where Is My Mind?' by Pixies

13. 'Runaway' by Aurora

14. 'Seven Devils' by Florence + The Machine

15. 'I Put a Spell on You' by Annie Lennox

16. 'Haunted' by Evanescence

17. 'Bury a Friend' by Billie Eilish

18. 'Mad World' by Gary Jules

19. 'My Body Is a Cage' by Arcade Fire

20. 'Glory and Gore' by Lorde

21. 'Lost' by Anathema

22. 'Dark Paradise' by Lana Del Rey

23. 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac

24. 'I Feel It Coming' by The Weeknd

25. 'Hole in the Earth' by Deftones

26. 'Flesh Without Blood' by Grimes

27. 'The Drop' by The Haxan Cloak

28. 'A Change Is Gonna Come' by Sam Cooke

29. 'River Deep, Mountain High' by Ike & Tina Turner

30. 'The Passenger' by Iggy Pop

31. 'Way Down We Go' by Kaleo

32. 'Lost Cause' by Beck

33. 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Kylie Minogue

34. 'All We Ask' by Grizzly Bear

35. 'The Stars Are Projectors' by Modest Mouse

36. 'The Glow pt. 2' by The Microphones

37. 'Borders' by M.I.A.

38. 'Ariel's Dance' by Teknoaxe

39. 'Heart of Courage' by Two Steps from Hell

40. 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash

41. 'In the End' by Linkin Park

42. 'Hello Darkness' by Simon & Garfunkel

43. 'The End' by The Doors

44. 'Whispering' by V.E.N.O.M.

45. 'The Unknown' by The Sound of the Underground

46. 'The Descent' by The Sound of the Underground

47. 'Deep Down' by The Sound of the Underground

48. 'The Abyss' by The Sound of the Underground

49. 'The Cave of Ultimate Doom' by Teknoaxe

50. 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin