Converge: The Dusk in Us 12″

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Five years since their last release,Convergereturn withThe Dusk In Us, a brutal but beautiful album that shows the band’s artistic evolution while still capturing their classic sound. The ninth full-length from the Boston-based heavy-music innovators proves to be both dark and hopeful, abrasive and melodic, devastating and powerfully cathartic. In recordingThe Dusk In Us,Convergeonce again worked inKurt Ballou’srenowned Godcity Studios in Salem, MA. Produced by the band and mixed by Ballou, the album matches its raw energy with a subculture-crossing inventiveness that’s earnedConvergelongtime reverence within the punk, metal, and hardcore scenes.

One ofConverge’smost dynamic and avant-garde albums to date,The Dusk In Usunfolds with an uncompromising honesty born from “writing about experiences in my life and working through the complexities of those things through song,” as Bannon explains. On the album-opening “A Single Tear,” pummeling drums and caustic riffs form the backdrop to strikingly vulnerable lyrics. With its abrasive guitar work and menacing undertones, “Under Duress” brings a tortured howl to lyrics channeling what Bannon calls, “an emotional reaction to the complex world in which we live.” A frenzied blast of pure fury, “I Can Tell You About Pain” offers whatNPRhailed as “hardcore-fueled extreme music that simultaneously elevates and destroys.” And on the 7-minute-plus title track,Convergedeliver a slow-building, quietly haunting epic of ethereal beauty.

WhileThe Dusk In UsfindsConvergedefying boundaries and pushing into new sonic terrain, it’s also a natural progression for a band that’s long thrived on making music that both challenges and connects.