― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 02:56 (twenty-two years ago) link
― otto, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
petitioning the empty sky ep kinda cool but nowhere near as 'deep' and worldly as Jane Doe
singles collection has its moments but I just sold it so i can't really say it's a 'keeper'
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
Saw them at Middlesex colleg close to ten years ago (and i'm sure they've gotten even better since then) and it was one of the best hc shows I've ever seen
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link
OTM
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 16 July 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ô¿Ô (eman), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Thing is, nothing else they've done comes close, even if most of it is pretty solid When Forever Comes Crashing-on. The split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed is maybe the best of the rest, even if it did put me off on ANB for years.
― original bgm, Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 16 July 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Converge, Terror, Cursed, Mare Canadian TourDates are in for this great tour:
9/24: Vancouver, BC @ Seylynn Hall9/26: Banff, AB @ Wildbills9/27: Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Theatre9/28: Calgary, AB @ Macewan Ballroom9/29: Regina, SK @ The Exchange9/30: Winnipeg, MB @ Collective Cabaret10/1: Thunder Bay, ON @ Warp 910/3: London, ON @ Call The Office10/4: Hamilton, ON @ The Underground10/5: Toronto, ON @ Opera House10/6: Ottawa, ON @ Babylon10/7: Quebec City @ Anti- Hall10/8: Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
― drone/a/saur (william), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Who'da thought leaving England was a good idea.
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Both Jane Doe and You Fail me are great.
Someone said Coalesce cover Led Zepellin, well so do Converge!They dropped in a sneaky cover of the ambient bit from whole lotta love the twice I've seen them, near the end of their set.
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Watch the whole thing. The end = audience/band BRAWL. fucked up and amazing.
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
'THIS TIME IT'S WAR!"
so much aggression and brutality, hard to fathom that its subject matter addresses a failed relationship/heartless girl/unrequited love.
but yeah, jane doe is phenomenal. the s/t closing track is like a big, lumbering, ugly-yet-oh-so-beautiful monument to a broken heart. never fails to enthrall me.
'last light' from you fail me is also mesemerising. builds up to the climax of all climaxes and then suddenly withdraws its energy.
there is no disputing mr. bannon is for real. never heard a vocalist so closely replicate the wounded anguish of a wild animal.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
october 24. guess i'll pick it up on the day, unless it appears in the shop earlier
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
i really like 'you fail me', but it's a pretty rough affair at times. some of the songs could do with a bit of padding or fleshing out as they seem to lack a cohesive, fully-realised song structure. that's all part of the record's charm and rugged appeal, ultimately, but it makes it harder to familiarise oneself with the songs' changes and developments.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
― unperson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
lots of chatter abt this on rolling metal but just chiming in to say that the first four tracks are fuckin awesome and the opener is the only thing that can keep up with the jitters my new medication gives me lol
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw them tonight. They were great. They led into "Dark Horse" (opening cut from Axe To Fall) with a drum solo, during which the bassist yelled at some insufficiently appreciative dude in the pit "Give it up! You can't do that shit!"
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Saturday, 31 October 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
new album is awesome. loving kurt ballou's more foregrounded lead parts, and the guest appearances...
― like moses, the townfolk like the red sea (stevie), Saturday, 31 October 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
new album is indeed incredible.
― m the g, Saturday, 31 October 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"Wretched World"
\m/ O_O \m/
― ksh, Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
At 03:20 into this I don't what to do. What happens there is just, fuck.
― Mule, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
don't *know what to do..
― Mule, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
in to what
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
curious?
― charlie h, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
what
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
just saying i'm curious about what song Mule is talking about.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
me too.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Damn, I can't believe I forgot to mention the song! Sorry guys. It was Jane Doe, and it's almost too good.
― Mule, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pDEMx.gif
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
new album is a stupid excellent monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vZRGK4FbI
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 October 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
fuuuck
― j., Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
i heard some record the other day that i thought was really awesome but now i forgot what it was after hearing this
― j., Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
better on every new listen. absolutely brutal guitar playing on "sadness comes home". the man is a beast.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:48 (eleven years ago) link
and when i say brutal, i mean brutal with deft hand, pinpoint control and finesse. that guitar line from start to finish, solo included, is the stuff of genius.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:52 (eleven years ago) link
once a week or so i figure out one of the lyrics and the record gets heavier
― j., Thursday, 22 November 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
^^ that's quite an abstract post, but i think i know exactly what you mean :)
― charlie h, Friday, 23 November 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i'm just saying, they're surprisingly comprehensible, considering that they're unintelligible howling
― j., Friday, 23 November 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLgGw5BGqA
― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Christ Jane Doe is so incredible
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 8 June 2013 05:55 (ten years ago) link
all we love is spoiling more run-of-the-mill post-hc metally records for me, they can't crush and maneuver like it does
― j., Wednesday, 10 July 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
No Heroes popped on iPod Friday, apologies to all who were sat near me on the nightbus
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (stevie), Thursday, 11 July 2013 08:13 (ten years ago) link
god i love this record
― j., Monday, 16 September 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
CONVERGE SHARES NEW VIDEOWatch "Precipice / All We Love We Leave Behind" at Pitchfork:http://pitchfork.com/news/54784-converge-share-precipice-all-we-love-we-leave-behind-video/
Converge is proud to release the film/video for "Precipice / All We Love We Leave Behind", directed by Craig Murray (Converge, Oxbow, Narrows). Both tracks appear on Converge's 2012 full-length, All We Love We Leave Behind, out now on Epitaph/Deathwish Inc. The video was conceptualized by Murray, using the narrative put forth of the death of a canine companion as told in J. Bannon’s lyrical writings. Murray uses powerful visual metaphor and imagery to communicate the crushing weight of loss and the strength of unconditional love the song explores.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link
http://loudwire.com/converge-two-new-songs-video-i-can-tell-you-about-pain/
― j., Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
"Eve" is amazing. I hope there's a new album coming.
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
the first side/half of The Dusk In Us is one of their best-ever stretches of music, as well as their most emo!
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
though I'm completely baffled that "Eve" was relegated to b-side status
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/converge-the_dusk_in_us_album_stream
FUCK
― j., Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
I find it utterly bizarre that "Eve" was left off, feels purpose-built to be a Side A closer
― Simon H., Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
maybe they'll add it on; the last album came in a deluxe version that added 2-3 tracks
― j., Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
this record is very good on first listen but man it's a lot to take in
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
I actually find it tidier and less overwhelming than AWLWLB
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 November 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
lol I said the Eve thing twice, no more drunkposting for me
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 November 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
Insanely good. I just expect that a new Converge album will be incredible.
I think "Murk & Marrow" is my favourite on first pass.
― jmm, Sunday, 5 November 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
hard to tell bc all of their records are so good but i think this one probably earns the "best since jane doe" description
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
this opinion brought to you by how hard i am headbanging at home alone to "arkhipov calm"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Amen - this record is melting my mind today! Not sure where I would rank it, but I can see myself playing this as much as I can the last one or Jane.
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 5 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
why did they put the one that kills me right up front
― j., Sunday, 5 November 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
the total sickness of the drums on 'trigger' is just ,
― j., Sunday, 5 November 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
― j., Monday, 6 November 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
It's nice to not have to strain to make out what Bannon is singing/speaking/shrieking/howling about for a change.
― Simon H., Monday, 6 November 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/converge_left_the_best_songs_off_of_the_dusk_in_us_and_four_other_facts_about_their_new_album
"We all disagreed about what the strongest songs were, and which songs made for the best record. I think we're all equally unhappy with what ended up on the album. It was a compromise. Some of the songs on that album are actually some of the weakest ones that we recorded, and some of the ones that aren't on the album are the strongest. We're just not exactly sure how we're going to release them yet. Whether it's B-sides, or an EP, we don't know yet."
― j., Monday, 6 November 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
kinda wish they'd pulled a Young Machetes and just thrown 'em all in. the album already kinda has a swansong vibe
― Simon H., Monday, 6 November 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
for your consideration
― j., Wednesday, 27 December 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
the intro to 'all we love' is the only dawdling buildup intro track i respect
― j., Monday, 11 November 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link