For those who’ve ever doubted the facility of Converge dwell, look no additional than their current Audiotree session. Converge tore via 4 classics on Could 11, 2025 dwell in Chicago on the Audiotree studios and it is straight up menacing. The 4 songs are:
- “We Had been By no means The Identical”
- “Darkish Horse”
- “Eagles Turn out to be Vultures”
- “Beneath Duress”
Converge is ready to launch their new file Love Is Not Sufficient on February 13, 2026. Love Is Not Sufficient options no particular friends, no studio trickery, no relentless massaging of human imperfection in making an attempt to fabricate the proper take. “I feel that realism is lacking from quite a lot of fashionable music of any style, however particularly our style,” mentioned Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon.
“Issues both go tremendous uncooked and virtually chaotic to the purpose the place it is distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by enhancing each facet. Generally the proper take is the one which has some wildness to it. It is not completely executed. There’s quite a lot of highly effective moments on this file and quite a lot of indignant moments. The realism amplifies that.”
Bannon continued: “It does a factor that no different Converge file does—it retains ramping up. And that is undoubtedly by design. Internally, we handed round dozens of concepts for sequencing as a result of everybody interprets music in another way and there is not any proper means of doing it. Once we try this, we at all times joke that all of us should be equally sad. However that is the one which works.”
Love Is Not Sufficient was recorded and combined by Kurt Ballou at God Metropolis in Salem, MA, with engineering help from Zach Weeks. Jacob Bannon did the art work and design, creating a picture for every tune and a commanding cowl depicting a celestial witness to a world aflame.
“We nonetheless determine this band because the outlet that is important to our lives,” Bannon mentioned. “We give every little thing we’ve to it. Being previous your common center age, we’re beginning to see deeper than earlier than into quite a lot of locations. And I do not suppose that is particular to us. I feel that is one thing that is completely relatable.”
Converge will carry out at Saddest Day fest on December 13 in Boston, MA with Touché Amoré, Coalesce, The Hope Conspiracy, Stuffed with Hell, Soul Glo and extra. Pre-order Love Is Not Enough here.
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