Converge are within the studio engaged on album quantity 10.
The Massachusetts metalcore veterans’ drummer, Ben Koller, posted an replace to Instagram on Tuesday (July 2), displaying the band jamming what are presumably new songs.
Koller wrote as a caption: “My knees damage!”
The album would be the band’s first standalone studio album because the launch of The Dusk In Us in 2017.
The band collaborated with gothic singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe and Stephen Brodsky of alt-metal underdogs Cave In for a 2021 studio challenge known as Bloodmoon: I.
In Might, Koller posted on X (previously Twitter), teasing what fans can expect from new Converge materials.
“There’s A LOT of recent [Converge] materials,” he wrote.
“I really feel like I’m at Previous Nation metalcore Buffet and all of the meals are RIFFS.”
He added in a reply: “It’s all over.
“We have now crowdkilling, Fugazi, Mars Volta, Entombed, mathcore insanity, gradual Nate riffs the place I play too quick, shitty riffs, emo riffs… This might be our greatest album but no joke.
“We should always proably [sic] ditch the shitty riffs although”
The drummer continued to hype up the album in a response to a fan, who requested what the music will sound like compared to Converge’s 2006 launch No Heroes.
“Arduous to say what the completed product can be however I’ll say that this appears like probably the most advanced, pure and absolutely realized bunch of fabric now we have ever written,” he answered.
“It’s powerful to try to examine it to different albums. No Heroes appears like one other lifetime at this level.”
Koller teased in an Instagram submit final 12 months that Converge’s subsequent album accommodates the heaviest riff the band have ever composed.
“Converge could have simply written the heaviest riff of our profession,” he put.
“Bunch of recent songs within the gradual cooker. Smelling actual good to date.”
Wolfe recently told Metal Hammer that Converge are additionally engaged on a sequel to Bloodmoon: I.
“I’m not optimistic if I’ll be a part of it, however there are plans to make Bloodmoon 2… I simply don’t know when,” she stated.
Converge have a small handful of stay dates confirmed for 2024. See the total record under.
Converge 2024 tour dates:
Jul 31: Brasov Rockstadt Excessive Fest, Romania
Aug 01: Budapest Dürer Kert, Hungary
Aug 02: Munich Free & Straightforward Pageant, Germany
Aug 03: Düdingen Unhealthy Bonn, Switzerland
Aug 04: Saint-Maurice-De-Gourdans Sylak Open Air, France
Sep 21: Worcester New England Metallic & Hardcore Fest, MA
Nov 02: Mexico Metropolis Foro Veintiocho, Mexico
Nov 03: San José Casa Rohas, Costa Rica
Nov 05: Bogotá Zona 16, Colombia
Nov 07: Santiago Blondie, Chile
Nov 09: Abasto Uniclub, Argentina
Nov 10: São Paulo Cine Joia, Brazil