Boston metalcore icons Converge have introduced their first non-collaborative album in almost 9 years. Love Is Not Enough arrives February 13 by way of Deathwish Inc. and Epitaph Records. Main the LP is the title observe, which reckons with the right way to stay empathetic and compassionate within the fashionable world. Watch its music video beneath.
Love Is Not Sufficient is Converge’s eleventh studio album. Whereas it technically follows the collaborative LP Bloodmoon: I, which they created with Chelsea Wolfe and Stephen Brodsky, it’s Converge’s first album with simply the 4 core members—vocalist Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton, and drummer Ben Koller—since 2017’s The Dusk in Us. The brand new document was produced by Ballou and sees Converge persevering with to discover the intersection of punk, hardcore, and steel as they enter their thirty fifth 12 months as a band.
“It does a factor that no different Converge document does—it retains ramping up,” Bannon stated of Love Is Not Sufficient. “And that’s undoubtedly by design. Internally, we handed round dozens of concepts for sequencing as a result of everybody interprets music otherwise and there’s no proper means of doing it. After we do this, we at all times joke that all of us need to be equally sad. However that is the one which works.”
Revisit the 2017 interview “Converge’s Jacob Bannon Untangles the Meaning of Every Song on His Band’s New Album, The Dusk in Us.”
Love Is Not Sufficient:
01 Love Is Not Sufficient
02 Unhealthy Religion
03 Distract and Divide
04 To Really feel One thing
05 Past Restore
06 Amon Amok
07 Pressure Meets Presence
08 Gilded Cage
09 Make Me Overlook You
10 We Had been By no means the Similar
