Album Rating: 4.0

First Light used to be my mobile phone ringtone for years...



Album rips.

Album Rating: 4.5

I NEED YOU

TO BE

THE HOPE

OF HEARTS

WHO LOST

TRUE LOVE

Album Rating: 4.0

I change my mind, this is the best Converge album.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah same, but a 4.5? Cmon jay

Album Rating: 4.5

oh this isn’t the redux

Album Rating: 4.5

Which do you like more jay?

Album Rating: 5.0

Black Cloud has one of the best drum parts ever put to tape. That song goes apeshit.

Album Rating: 4.0

The og is king. The grimy production works so well for their sound and I think this is the perfect gap between old Converge and new. It's just raw enough to sound old school but still packs the punch that later records would be known for. Plus I dig Bannon's vocals on this more than any of their other stuff.



Black Cloud, Drop Out, and the t/t are so damn heavy lol

Album Rating: 5.0

That tapping riff at the end of Drop Out is purely unfuckwithable.

Album Rating: 4.0

Ballou wrote some crazy ass riffs man

Album Rating: 5.0

This and Axe are in constant competition for my favorite. Changes daily tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

BLACK CLOUD GAINING

Album Rating: 4.5

Drop Out has more going on in 2.5 mins than most metalcore records can even hope to achieve



Literally perfect

Album Rating: 4.5

Drop Out goes crazy, though you can barely hear him say “drop out” on the redux.

Album Rating: 4.5

Idk if I’d go that far but I find it interesting that people tend to have very strong opinions on the whole original vs redux debate



Personally I think the redux is better in almost every way, but there are a couple of parts where it feels like the record loses a little bit of its personality. I just think it’s so much more polished and the bass doesn’t sound nearly as muddy. It’s probably my favorite converge record and easily one of Nate’s best performances. The basslines on Heartless in particular are just fucking amazing

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I’m fully in the redux camp, but the meat and bones make this record so special, not the mix

Album Rating: 5.0

My second favourite Converge. Whole album rules from start to finish.

Album Rating: 4.0

Hope Street is an absolute ripper

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I think the redux is a pretty marked improvement on the production side. No real reason for me to select the OG if I have the redux readily available

Album Rating: 4.5

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To me, even by the band’s usual standard at the time, YFM still sounded messy. Jane sounded much clearer imo and this just sounded like a mess, and then No Heroes and Axe to Fall came thru sounding very polished. But like Jash said, there is an incredible record here, it just sounds so sloppy.. And not in a good way. The redux is easily better imo