Footage of Converge taking part in an as-yet-unreleased music has made it on-line.
The pioneering Massachusetts metalcore band, who’ve not too long ago been recording their subsequent studio album, debuted two new tracks for his or her spring North American tour earlier this month, printed on setlists as WWNTS and Doom In Bloom.
Watch video of the four-piece taking part in WWNTS (presumed to face for one of many lyrics, “we have been by no means the identical”) at a present in Detroit on Could 10 under.
Converge’s final album, The Nightfall In Us, got here out in 2017. In 2021, the band teamed with singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, her collaborator Ben Chisholm and their former bassist Stephen Brodsky (now of Cave In) to launch the collaborative piece Bloodmoon: I.
The band have been engaged on new music since final 12 months. Throughout the summer season, drummer Ben Koller took to X (previously Twitter) and hinted in direction of what followers can count on.
“There’s A LOT of latest [Converge] materials,” he wrote. “I really feel like I’m at Outdated Nation metalcore Buffet and all of the meals are RIFFS.”
He added in a reply: “It’s in all places. We have now crowdkilling, Fugazi, Mars Volta, Entombed, mathcore insanity, sluggish Nate [Newton, bass] riffs the place I play too quick, shitty riffs, emo riffs… This may very well be our greatest album but no joke. We should always proably [sic] ditch the shitty riffs although.”
Koller additionally referred to as Converge’s new songs the “most advanced, pure and absolutely realised bunch of fabric we’ve got ever written”.
The band returned to the studio earlier this 12 months, with vocalist Jacob Bannon releasing updates throughout recording by way of Substack. The monitoring came about at GodCity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, owned by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou.
Ballou has produced each Converge album since 2001 and has additionally labored with The Armed, Russian Circles, Zeal & Ardor, Gatecreeper, Excessive On Hearth, Code Orange and others.
Converge’s North American run wrapped up on Could 15 and the band will return to the highway for 4 extra reveals in July. in addition they have a set at Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama booked for October 5.
