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| Converge: Ranked (2026)
Including 'Bloodmoon: I' as a bonus. There are a couple I can see making adjustments to, but this is my personal definitive list. | | 1 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
Their pinnacle. I can’t fathom a serious replacement for #1. Someone could make the case for You Fail Me or All We Love We Leave Behind, but neither comes close to their magnum opus. | | 2 |  | Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind
A close second for me. Mature songwriting and emotional cohesion combined with Converge’s signature abrasiveness. “Coral Blue” is up there as one of my all-time favorite Converge tracks. | | 3 |  | Converge
You Fail Me
Coming off the red-hot Jane Doe, it was difficult to imagine the band achieving another masterpiece. They don’t quite reach that same peak, but You Fail Me certainly comes close. It solidified the identity they culminated with Jane Doe. | | 4 |  | Converge
When Forever Comes Crashing
Proto–Jane Doe. Converge sharpens the teeth they grew on Petitioning the Empty Sky, making things darker and more metallic, and less overtly punk. | | 5 |  | Converge
Bloodmoon: I
A bit of a bonus entry. It’s an exceptional collaborative effort with Chelsea Wolfe, whose melodies provide a delicate and beautiful balance to Bannon’s signature harsh vocals. | | 6 |  | Converge
Love Is Not Enough
Their newest release, and one that will likely stick around for a while. Pulling somewhat from the Axe to Fall / No Heroes era, the songs are short, tight, and impactful. | | 7 |  | Converge
No Heroes
Probably their most abrasive outing. “Grim Heart / Black Rose” is a standout, featuring Jonah Jenkins’ clean-ish vocals. A ripper through and through. | | 8 |  | Converge
The Dusk in Us
Dare I say this one is… poppy? Or at least more accessible than you might expect from Converge. I remember Rolling Stone naming it one of the best metal albums of 2017. “You don’t… know what… my pain feels like…” | | 9 |  | Converge
Axe to Fall
Its placement this low isn’t a knock on the album at all. Converge has just been incredibly consistent throughout their career. The first three tracks (“Dark Horse,” “Reap What You Sow,” and “Axe to Fall”) are a bludgeoning start, but the back half loses some momentum as the band experiments. | | 10 |  | Converge
Petitioning the Empty Sky
In my view, this is their real debut. It has all the elements fans have come to know and love, and for the most part they execute them perfectly. A couple tracks don’t quite land, but it’s their first serious outing. | | 11 |  | Converge
Halo In A Haystack
Baby-Verge. I’m sure there are fans who absolutely love this record, but I’m not one of them. It feels more like a demo than a full statement, which is why I consider Petitioning the Empty Sky their true first album. Still, it has a couple of heaters. | |
jrlikestodance
03.12.26 | Love it! Very much different from my recent ranking but you can't go wrong with this band. | botb
03.12.26 | Just here for the WFCC love | thatdeftkid
03.12.26 | It's awesome | Wildcardbitchesss
03.12.26 | AWLWLB and YFM are interchangeable for me at #1, really just depends on the day. Jane Doe sits solidly at 3, cool to see someone having WFCC so high considering that usually ranks pretty low on most lists (including mine).
And I am one of the ones that likes Halo a lot. Still their worst record but they were making better music at like 17 than most grown ass hardcore bands where at the time | TronaldDump
03.12.26 | Hard agree with 1 and 2, I've enjoyed Love is Not Enough so much recently that I'd put that at 3 at this point. | Wildcardbitchesss
03.12.26 | And yeah, like I’ve said a million times, this band has put out so many incredible albums over the course of their career that even a lower ranking record is still better than a solid 90% of other extreme metal albums for me. | Wildcardbitchesss
03.12.26 | Love is Not Enough is number 4 for me, I don’t think they’ll ever reach the peak that is Jane Doe / You Fail Me / All We Love We Leave Behind but there’s a few songs on the new one that could hang with most of the tracks on that unholy trinity
I’ll say this, Gilded Cage, Make Me Forget You, and We Were Never the Same makes a strong case for the finest closing stretch of music the band ever made. | jrlikestodance
03.12.26 | I wish I liked Bloodmoon more. It has a few great tracks but its too IPAcore for my liking | Veldin
03.12.26 | Cheers for When Forever ranking | renegadestrings
03.12.26 | 1. “Nothing comes close to their magnum opus.”
2. “…a close second for me.”
I lol’d. good list
| thatdeftkid
03.12.26 | Hahaha I didn't even catch that. Keeping it | Demon of the Fall
03.12.26 | WFCC placement... oh good, oh yes
*sees where Axe is* (shakes fist) lol | Scoot
03.12.26 | yfm redux is #1 | Scoot
03.12.26 | agree that axe is overrated | cylinder
03.12.26 | we got the same top 3, and in the same order, but my 4 is your 9. huh | ConcubinaryCode
03.12.26 | 4 has actually grown on me over the years as well, it feels weird to say but its kinda underrated? Funnily enough I thought 9 was a pretty weak album for them too but I kinda dig their experimenting on it. Wretched world is in my top 10 songs by them now. Bloodmoon ill be honest shouldn't really be held with the rest of the Verge discography and should be seen as something like a Wear Your Wounds album. Related but seperate. Super hard band to rank, even halo is a pretty decent 3/5 | oltnabrick
03.13.26 | 4 and 10 are top two |
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