Latest Release
- 1 SEPT 2023
- 18 Songs
- When Forever Comes Crashing · 1998
- Axe to Fall · 2009
- Jane Doe · 2001
- Bloodmoon: I · 2021
- The Poacher Diaries (Redux) - EP · 2022
- Bloodmoon: I · 2021
- Bloodmoon: I · 2021
- Bloodmoon: I · 2021
- Bloodmoon: I · 2021
- Bloodmoon: I · 2021
Essential Albums
- Jane Doe marked the full flowering of Converge’s sound: The pace of punk and complexity of heavy metal, as brutal as a jackhammer and as featherlight as bebop. From the minute-long opening salvo of “Concubine” through the twin landmines of “Fault and Fracture” and “Distance and Meaning” and the aching grandeur of the title track, Jane Doe doesn’t just refresh an old sound, it finesses what at the time was an entirely new one—screaming not out of anger, but out of heartache.
- 2021
- 2009
Music Videos
- 2021
- 2018
- 2017
Artist Playlists
- One-of-a-kind classics from some of our very finest metalcore architects.
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
Compilations
About Converge
Converge put the New England punk and metal scene on the map—and provided a musical blueprint for metalcore—in 2001 with Jane Doe, a bone-crushing collection of churning hardcore punctuated by pulverising riffage and fury. That spirit of sonic obliteration has been a defining feature of Converge’s songwriting ever since vocalist Jake Bannon and guitarist Kurt Ballou cofounded the band in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1990. Converge issued a limited-release 1994 debut album, Halo in a Haystack, and a compilation of unreleased rarities and demos before signing to Equal Vision Records for 1998’s When Forever Comes Crashing. In the wake of Jane Doe’s success, Converge released the 2004 commercial breakthrough You Fail Me, and they kept evolving their punishing hardcore/metal hybrids on subsequent records. In 2021, Converge threw a curveball, teaming up with goth-folk experimentalist Chelsea Wolfe for Bloodmoon: I, touching on smouldering rock and metal.
- ORIGIN
- Salem, MA, United States
- FORMED
- 1990
- GENRE
- Metal