I'm going to tell my kids this was Evanescence

Solid songs! Although I dig this sound more than any other converge album I've heard.

Very good. Stoked for the full thing

both songs are insanely great, looking forward to this record!

more like lacuna coil

You should embed the "official" video from Epitaph instead, it looks nicer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591_kaZf1oM

oh and I still think it's wrong to have this under its own artist. This is a Converge album and should be listed under Converge.

More bore

So is this project a concept album series or something? Have they said anything regarding it?

Ben Koller has hinted that it is a series, I haven't heard anything about there being a concept

Might have to pass on this. Really not digging this tame gothic alt metal shit...

lol what in the fuck is this
I love it

"I'm going to tell my kids this was Evanescence"

Lol

Song is...okay!

Not as good as the first one, but still enjoyable. Can't wait to hear the entire album in one go.

Bannon's cleans are as terrible and pointless as ever but the songs are shaping up to be decent, so I'm curious to see how the album will be

love everyone involved with this but yeah this is boring as fuck.

Nate Pootin'

This shit is terrible

Really don't like this.

I think this is fantastic. Is that Brodsky singing toward the end?

Hmmm...I'm thinking to cancel my vinyl preorder now haha. Not sure if I'm going to dig this. This was kind of dull.

The start of the song was nice, then it got weird, then it catched up and ended on a high note. This is gonna be a very weird record, but I can't wait to hear it.

I agree with Lelle it is imperative the artist name be changed to Converge so we can make sure Sputnik history recounts correctly that Chelsea Wolfe actually joined Converge as a band member.

https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/bloodmoon-i

"Converge & Chelsea Wolfe".

Let's end this debate here, people, it's what it is.

Needs more Jacob Bannon shrieks

Great/helpful title

not feeling this one, but I liked the first track

Track was solid but didn't showcase the potential of this project quite like that first song. Album should be good though.

Not exactly what I would expect from a Coverge/Chelsea Wolfe collaboration but this was very good. Refreshing different and interesting.

I think by Sputnik's regulations this is listed as its own project kind of like Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas - Mariner. It's a cult of luna record with Julie on it but it's listed as a separate thing. Also Converge are listing Chelsea as a separate person although she is on Converge's group photos and such idk.

i like this trend of my fave goth ladies motherly adopting my fave metal bands
Julie Christmas cradling Cult of Luna
Emma Ruth Rundle parenting Thou
now Chelsea Wolfe going for Converge

excited to see the next pairing, probably Anna Von Hausswolff teaming up with Ulcerate

She already did it with Wolves in the Throne Room.

bruh

how did i now know that


hey Marissa Nadler, where's your Make-a-Wish metal band?

I don’t even know Converge but this is making me BUST A NUT

"https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/bloodmoon-i

"Converge & Chelsea Wolfe".

Let's end this debate here, people, it's what it is."

Tks Dew. Finally the Gods proving me right m/

dewinged had to point out the OBVIOUS hard rip to the idiots

Loved the song.

need it or keep it?

"excited to see the next pairing, probably Anna Von Hausswolff teaming up with Ulcerate"

think she's doing one with Sunn O)))

sounds like bright eyes and metallica made a lulu in their pants.

"https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/bloodmoon-i

"Converge & Chelsea Wolfe".

Let's end this debate here, people, it's what it is."

Yet at the same time it's listed only as "Converge" on YouTube, with Chelsea, Ben and Steve as additional members, and promoted mainly through Converge's social media channels, not Chelsea Wolfe's. The band name on the record cover itself is also just "Converge".

To be correct it should be listed as "Converge and Chelsea Wolfe and Ben Chisholm and Steve Brodsky" in that case.

right, let's just have Anna Von Hausswolff be our metal mommy and team up with every metal band out there

lelle here’s the thing

fuck the marketing aspect of it cuz we know converge is the bigger name. my memory fails thinking they performed this but ya gotta give respect to where it’s due

"To be correct it should be listed as "Converge and Chelsea Wolfe and Ben Chisholm and Steve Brodsky" in that case."

CCWBCSB for short, how bout that.

Listen, I'll check with Epitaph, see what they say, I honestly don't give half a shit under what name it is. We all know what it is who's in and that's what matters.

@Dewinged Jacob Bannon has just clarified in a podcast how the band views the project. Here's the cliffnotes as I understood him:

* Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm, and Steve Brodsky are now members of Converge
* Albums featuring the lineup of seven musicians will contain Bloodmoon in the title (so for example, Bloodmoon: I, with more albums likely to come)
* Albums featuring the original core members will not have Bloodmoon in the title
* Regardless if it's the core member branch or the seven musician branch of the band, the band is still Converge

You can check his comments here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akyllP0IziQ
At 17:30 and 38:50

Would sputnik view that as a separate band/page or as something that should be under Converge?

Converge then. The separation comes from the 'Bloodmoon' title(s) as laid out by Bannon. I absolutely understand why the whole thing was confusing, but yeah I'd say that clears things up.

A little bit of an odd way of doing things, but Converge have earnt the right to do whatever the f*** they want in my book, so whatever.

Odd indeed. Doubt it will work that way in the end (merch, lable etc), specially considering the genre leap, although I agree with "Converge have earnt the right to do whatever the f*** they want in my book, so whatever." (Except of course with those ***, just day fuck man)