Converge are gonna tear your lungs out with this album 'Axe To Fall' visit the bands myspace page to listen to all the tracks and more.. ..Without warning, Converge let the metal flag fly on Axe To Fall when drummer Ben Koller’s galloping beats meet Ballou’s lightning fast riffs as bassist Nate Newton provides a pummeling backbone and vocalist Jacob Bannon takes command with menacing growls on the album’s shattering opener “Dark Horse.” Perhaps Converge’s heaviest music they’ve ever recorded, the foursome invited a slew friends to contribute to the album, and the result was a wall of metal-infused hardcore on a level that’s never been heard before.


Songs like the hardcore pit-swirling ‘Effigy’ (feat. Steve Brodsky/Lead guitar, Adam McGrath/Guitar, J.R. Connors/Drums), the furiously relentless neck-breaker ‘Wishing Well’ (feat. Ulf Cederlund/Lead guitar/backing vocals) and the blazing thrash-track ‘Cutter’ (feat. John Pettibone/backing vocals) keep the album moving with power and energy. As defiant as ever, Bannon roars through songs about despair and self-indulgent choices warning that “we'll show the demons for what they are.” As the album comes to a close it takes a doom-ridden turn as Neurosis’ Steve Von Till shares vocal duties with Bannon on the brooding track ‘Cruel Bloom’ and Genghis Tron’s Mookie Singerman providing lead vocals on the beautifully dark post-metal album closer ‘Wretched World.’

After 19 years as a band, Converge still maintain the steadfast individuality and uncompromising artistic vision they had when they formed. The band has been credited with giving rise to a genre of music and influencing bands worldwide, yet by never wavering have created a sound that is entirely their own.



Prepare yourself for the year’s most vicious album, Axe To Fall.

“You won’t find this much energy in a nuclear reactor.” – Kerrang! (KKKK)



“Whichever way they choose to batter, gouge or hack away at you, the music rises and falls with fluid ease and mind-boggling invention, bringing new ideas to previously-trod ground and constantly pushing the edges of the very parameters the band themselves helped lay.” – Rocksound (9 / 10)“You won’t find this much energy in a nuclear reactor.” – Kerrang! (KKKK)



“Whichever way they choose to batter, gouge or hack away at you, the music rises and falls with fluid ease and mind-boggling invention, bringing new ideas to previously-trod ground and constantly pushing the edges of the very parameters the band themselves helped lay.” – Rocksound (9 / 10)“You won’t find this much energy in a nuclear reactor.” – Kerrang! (KKKK)


“Whichever way they choose to batter, gouge or hack away at you, the music rises and falls with fluid ease and mind-boggling invention, bringing new ideas to previously-trod ground and constantly pushing the edges of the very parameters the band themselves helped lay.” – Rocksound (9 / 10)

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