Converge are within the studio operating on album quantity 10.
The Massachusetts metalcore veterans’ drummer, Ben Koller, posted an replace to Instagram on Tuesday (July 2), appearing the band jamming what are possibly new songs.
Koller wrote as a caption: “My knees harm!”
The album would be the band’s first standalone studio album because the free up of The Nightfall 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 mission referred to as Bloodmoon: I.
In Might, Koller posted on X (previously Twitter), teasing what lovers can be expecting from new Converge subject matter.
“There may be A LOT of recent [Converge] subject matter,” he wrote.
“I believe like I’m at Outdated Nation metalcore Buffet and the entire meals are RIFFS.”
He added in a answer: “It’s in all places.
“Now we have crowdkilling, Fugazi, Mars Volta, Entombed, mathcore insanity, sluggish Nate riffs the place I play too rapid, shitty riffs, emo riffs… This may well be our highest album but no comic story.
“We must proably [sic] ditch the shitty riffs although”
The drummer persevered to hype up the album in a reaction to a fan, who requested what the tune will sound like compared to Converge’s 2006 free up No Heroes.
“Exhausting to mention what the completed product might be however I can say that this seems like probably the most developed, herbal and completely learned bunch of subject matter we now have ever written,” he spoke back.
“It’s difficult to check out and examine it to different albums. No Heroes seems like any other lifetime at this level.”
Koller teased in an Instagram submit ultimate 12 months that Converge’s subsequent album accommodates the heaviest riff the band have ever composed.
“Converge can have simply written the heaviest riff of our occupation,” he put.
“Bunch of recent songs within the sluggish cooker. Smelling actual excellent to this point.”
Wolfe lately informed Steel Hammer that Converge also are operating on a sequel to Bloodmoon: I.
“I’m now not certain if I’ll be a part of it, however there are plans to make Bloodmoon 2… I simply don’t know when,” she mentioned.
Converge have a small handful of reside dates showed for 2024. See the whole checklist under.
Converge 2024 excursion dates:
Jul 31: Brasov Rockstadt Excessive Fest, Romania
Aug 01: Budapest Dürer Kert, Hungary
Aug 02: Munich Unfastened & Simple Pageant, Germany
Aug 03: Düdingen Unhealthy Bonn, Switzerland
Aug 04: Saint-Maurice-De-Gourdans Sylak Open Air, France
Sep 21: Worcester New England Steel & Hardcore Fest, MA
Nov 02: Mexico Town 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
