Epitaph, 2009

Seven albums and twenty years in, Converge remain as ferocious as hell. Axe To Fall is as brutal, frenetic, and thrashy as anything before it, but also shows their enduring thirst for expanding their sound (and the versatile musicianship to pull it off); see the slow dirge of “Worms Will Feed” and the Steve Von Till-fronted, Tom Waits-like “Cruel Bloom”. Here’s to the next decade.

Tags: Converge, Hardcore, Metalcore, Neurosis, Punk Rock, The Red Chord, Unsane

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