Album Rating: 2.5

yeah tis the best of their 'accessible era' imo, unless you count AtF as part of this which you can and may, but it's a different kettle of fish to their usual sound, so it may not work as a fitting introduction in the same way

Solid album, like it about as much as LINE.
Really don't like the cover though, much prefer the alternate version.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah cover sucks

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I love it personally. Really stands out among their discography and thematically it makes sense.



“You feel it before you hear it. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. A low, persistent noise throbbing in the background. Scientists say it registers between 30 and 40 hertz. It’s been heard in Ipswich, Massachusetts; Auckland, New Zealand; and Windsor, Ontario. It has haunted the population of Taos, New Mexico, for decades. It’s been linked to suicides in the UK. Not everyone can hear it. No one knows where it’s coming from. They call it The Hum.



Converge have taken this mysterious real-world phenomenon and reimagined it as a physical manifestation of human suffering. I read on the phenomena while researching my own tinnitus. Then an idea struck. “What if the Hum is the culmination of all the pain in the world, creating an audible signal across the universe?” vocalist and lyricist Jacob Bannon posits. “Something noticeable to others operating on a similar emotional plane.”





Yeah I dig it a lot.

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And again, it’s nice to have something that really stands out among the rest of their records. You can already really tell that these are two very different projects despite being from the same sessions and releasing just a few months apart. My biggest fear was that this would just feel like B sides and it absolutely does not. Tbh I’m pretty sure I like it more than Love is Not Enough. Lyrically they definitely touch on some of the same themes but I feel this record is a lot more focused on personal turmoil where Love is Not Enough honestly feels more political. At least as political as Jacob has ever gotten with his lyrics. There’s for sure a few that buck that trend (To Feel Something, Make Me Forget You, We Were Never the Same), but most of it feels more about the state of the world.



I know they’d never do it but when they headline I really would be fine with them just playing songs off these two albums. Hell, together they run at just over an hour, and personally there’s a few songs they’ve played live that I don’t ever need to see again. Like every single time I’ve seen them they’ve played Dark Horse. Sure, it’s one of the most anthemic songs they’ve ever made but goddamn, I really just check out when they play it now. I think they seriously may have played Worms Will Feed every time too, which I get it, they’re a very intense band, they need to slow down the set somewhere and let everyone catch their breath, but literally just replace it with Dream Debris and we’re good to go.

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Really good time to be a Converge fan. Pour one out for the friends that didn’t make it this far.

Album Rating: 4.0





“You feel it before you hear it. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. A low, persistent noise throbbing in the background. Scientists say it registers between 30 and 40 hertz. It’s been heard in Ipswich, Massachusetts; Auckland, New Zealand; and Windsor, Ontario. It has haunted the population of Taos, New Mexico, for decades. It’s been linked to suicides in the UK. Not everyone can hear it. No one knows where it’s coming from. They call it The Hum.'





wow so ive had this for fking agggges up in the scottish highlands, Thought it must be boats in the bay but no one else seems to hear it. I do have tinnitus so figures it was some kind of ear aids but a quick google says this phenomena is also in up here called the "heberedian hum' !!

Album Rating: 4.4

Windsor, Ontario REPRESENT

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I’d never even heard of it and to me it’s absolutely fascinating. I’ve been doing a lot of reading on it and it’s just goddamn creepy to me, and the way Jacob interprets it and puts it forward on this record (+ the art) is incredibly creative.



I love Dusk in Us and Bloodmoon I but to me this is easily the most invigorated and just downright pissed off these guys have sounded since AWLWLB. Also, I really think the production here is so much better. Ben is an absolute monster and probably my favorite drummer of all time… and I’m not gonna pretend to be some expert on the technical aspects of music production, but the drums sound so brittle on Dusk. I wish that record sounded closer to the pair of these or AWLWLB, because I do think that album has some very creative songwriting moments for them. I know a lot of folks don’t care for some of these tracks, but there truly isn’t anything like Murk & Marrow, Trigger, or Thousands of Miles Between Us across their entire discography. The riffs shooting in and out on Murk & Marrow along with the synths(?) make it sound like something made for a fucking horror movie.

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I mean, just listen to the two different versions of I Won’t Let You Go. I always loved the song but this new version just has more fucking TEETH. I was skeptical when they said they were re-recording it… to me it felt like they just need to fill space on the tracklist but I was dead wrong. It totally earns its place here and I’m so glad they did that.

Album Rating: 4.0

I’m hoping they announce a headline tour for the later half of the year to support these two albums. I believe they played three songs off of this when I saw them last month, if you count It Used To Matter playing as their stage intro.





“I love Dusk in Us and Bloodmoon I but to me this is easily the most invigorated and just downright pissed off these guys have sounded since AWLWLB.“



I’m honestly shocked how good this is. LINE was solid and a step up from Dusk and Bloodmoon, but a little lacking in the riff department. This however feels like a much more true return to form for my taste.

Converge have taken this mysterious real-world phenomenon and reimagined it as a physical manifestation of human suffering.

Yeah I find shit like that fascinating. Those almost otherworldly phenomena that has such power over everyone. Things like that, to me, are proof of something beyond us.

I definitely don’t mean “god” per se, or even an entity. I don’t know. Anyone who says they do is full of shit. It’s fun and fascinating to theorize though.

But as a recovering addict/alcoholic, I don’t have a traditional higher power. I touch that plane of unexplainable grandness, serenity and utter tranquility through meditation. And I follow more of a Buddhist mindset, and have studied Buddhism/gone to Buddhism recovery groups. I go to traditional AA too of course, I don’t give a shit if someone believes in something I don’t. I’d be a hypocrite.

At any rate, the entire hum of hurt frequency in general, what a concept for Converge to hone in on as an almost abstract concept album. Perfectly enmeshes with their sound and sensibilities/thematic material

Album Rating: 4.5

Album ripz



I Won't Let You Go is so good. Forgot that song was in Cyberpunk lol

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Tbh that game may have the best in game radio of all time, so many heaters and so many of them were created for the game specifically.

Hell yeah Cyberpunk is the shit.

Album Rating: 4.5

Out of their more recent output, I think this is their best since AWLWLB.

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed on that

initial impressions i would agree with that! need a few more listens but the last one was slightly disappointing for them, this is more like it. bit more adventurous and interesting.

Album Rating: 4.5

Both are just amazing. I'm still partial to LINE, but this isn't far off from it imo.

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Agree with futures. Love is Not Enough is cut from the same cloth as something like Axe to Fall with some added sludgier moments imo, nothing really too out there for them. To me at least, this one is a lot noisier and has more unconventional songwriting.



Both are great, but both are definitely going for very different things and I wouldn’t argue with someone for liking one over the other.