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YOU FAIL ME IS AWESOME. A TOTAL GROWER.

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 02:56 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I'm listening to Jane Doe by Converge, and I can barely handle how epic it is. This is the first thing I've heard by them. What else is good?

― otto, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

that's their best

petitioning the empty sky ep kinda cool but nowhere near as 'deep' and worldly as Jane Doe

singles collection has its moments but I just sold it so i can't really say it's a 'keeper'

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Jane Doe is so beautiful it makes me want to cry.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

But do you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that album is so brutal any tears being shed are vaporized by the fire of its unholy fury. It's that good.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, what he said.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

it really is devastatingly beautiful to me though. maybe i'm just an old softy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Saddest Day" from Petitioning the Empty Sky is a good warm-up to Jane Doe. Otherwise wring your hands together and weep at the DVD, or set your house afire and walk in slow stilted steps towards wherever they're playing next. They are an unrivaled live band.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That's very very true.

Saw them at Middlesex colleg close to ten years ago (and i'm sure they've gotten even better since then) and it was one of the best hc shows I've ever seen

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I'm listening to Jane Doe by Converge, and I can barely handle how epic it is.

OTM

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 16 July 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

I only have You Fail Me - what do people think of that?

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

You Fail Me is OK but Jane Doe is incredible.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

I'll have to check it out.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Anyone here like Coalesce? They make good bedfellows to Converge.

― mzui (mzui), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

that coalesce album 0:12 revolution in just listening's pretty good.

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

did coalesce pick their name from looking up "converge" in the thesaurus?

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Coalesce's Zeppelin covers are ok!

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah i always thought it was funny, that coalesce/converge name thing.

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Jane Doe is up there with the best of its style. In fact, the only 'metalcore' album I like more is Botch's We Are the Romans. The epic feel is def. the key to both, I think (tho WAtR takes this even further than JD w/the unaccompanied Gregorian chanting on the last track). So yeah, OTM.

Thing is, nothing else they've done comes close, even if most of it is pretty solid When Forever Comes Crashing-on. The split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed is maybe the best of the rest, even if it did put me off on ANB for years.

― original bgm, Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

that hidden electronic track on We are the Romans is teh awesome

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Eh.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 16 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I've been on a converge binge since reading this thread and they are definitely one of my favourite bands of the 00's. 'When Forever Comes Crashing' is great but 'Jane Doe' just tramples over everything.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Agreed. I didn't like it much at all when I first heard it, but after a few dozen listens it became amazing. Jane Doe, on the other hand, was great the first time I heard it and didn't get any better. So I guess You Fail Me, though not the better album, was more personally rewarding.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

It really IS a total grower. I was so excited to hear it when it came out and then i never played it. But lately it just sounds completely cool. i really wasn't expecting anything as good as jane doe. i figured that was a lot to ask for. but it's good on its own. and as i said on another thread, one of the few recent albums i can think of that i wish was longer!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

fyi for the canadian contingent on ilx::

Converge, Terror, Cursed, Mare Canadian Tour
Dates are in for this great tour:

9/24: Vancouver, BC @ Seylynn Hall
9/26: Banff, AB @ Wildbills
9/27: Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Theatre
9/28: Calgary, AB @ Macewan Ballroom
9/29: Regina, SK @ The Exchange
9/30: Winnipeg, MB @ Collective Cabaret
10/1: Thunder Bay, ON @ Warp 9
10/3: London, ON @ Call The Office
10/4: Hamilton, ON @ The Underground
10/5: Toronto, ON @ Opera House
10/6: Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
10/7: Quebec City @ Anti- Hall
10/8: Montreal, QC @ Club Soda

― drone/a/saur (william), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck i'm gonna be there for that!!!

Who'da thought leaving England was a good idea.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

http://photobucket.com/albums/v360/morethanrats/?action=view¤t=head.jpg

Both Jane Doe and You Fail me are great.

Someone said Coalesce cover Led Zepellin, well so do Converge!
They dropped in a sneaky cover of the ambient bit from whole lotta love the twice I've seen them, near the end of their set.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/morethanrats/head.jpg

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

He's some kind of freaky gecko thing, totally hollowed out after a show, sweat and skin.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

http://s1.putfile.com/videos/a3-24219563123.wmv

Watch the whole thing. The end = audience/band BRAWL. fucked up and amazing.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

'conduit' from when forever comes crashing is amazing

'THIS TIME IT'S WAR!"

so much aggression and brutality, hard to fathom that its subject matter addresses a failed relationship/heartless girl/unrequited love.

but yeah, jane doe is phenomenal. the s/t closing track is like a big, lumbering, ugly-yet-oh-so-beautiful monument to a broken heart. never fails to enthrall me.

'last light' from you fail me is also mesemerising. builds up to the climax of all climaxes and then suddenly withdraws its energy.

there is no disputing mr. bannon is for real. never heard a vocalist so closely replicate the wounded anguish of a wild animal.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

i still haven't heard the new album. i need to go buy it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't heard a note either.

october 24. guess i'll pick it up on the day, unless it appears in the shop earlier

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

i've been really getting into converge lately.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

sweet. there's a lot to love

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

New album is fantastic. You can pre-order the vinyl over at http://www.deathwishinc.com/estore.php

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

how does this compare to "You Fail Me"? that's the only Converge album I own, and frankly I'm not a huge fan.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to Petitioning The Empty Sky the other day. That's not bad, but Jane Doe is still the best one I've heard. Haven't got the new one yet.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Much much better, Mickey. It's up there with Jane Doe for me.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

i'm very excited by the positive buzz you're giving this, brigadier :)

i really like 'you fail me', but it's a pretty rough affair at times. some of the songs could do with a bit of padding or fleshing out as they seem to lack a cohesive, fully-realised song structure. that's all part of the record's charm and rugged appeal, ultimately, but it makes it harder to familiarise oneself with the songs' changes and developments.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

so what's the official word on the most recent one? i haven't purchased it, but i did see converge play a few weeks ago and the new tracks were sounding ripe.

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

it's awesome. competely awesome. buy it already.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

seconded. it's blisteringly great.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Thirded.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, pretty good. Picked it up cheap a few weeks back.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Bought it the week of release, have it in my iPod, but haven't listened to it in awhile. They're just one of those bands I only get in a mood for rarely, and then they own my world for a week or so. Next week could be that week!

― unperson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

No Heroes is such a great ALBUM album. every song is just better than the last until by the end i almost can't take it anymore. such a good album experience. what a great band. I felt the same way about the last Harvey Milk album. It just builds and builds and builds...jesus, so beautiful.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

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lots of chatter abt this on rolling metal but just chiming in to say that the first four tracks are fuckin awesome and the opener is the only thing that can keep up with the jitters my new medication gives me lol

― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

Saw them tonight. They were great. They led into "Dark Horse" (opening cut from Axe To Fall) with a drum solo, during which the bassist yelled at some insufficiently appreciative dude in the pit "Give it up! You can't do that shit!"

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Saturday, 31 October 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago)

new album is awesome. loving kurt ballou's more foregrounded lead parts, and the guest appearances...

― like moses, the townfolk like the red sea (stevie), Saturday, 31 October 2009 10:23 (fifteen years ago)

new album is indeed incredible.

― m the g, Saturday, 31 October 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

"Wretched World"

\m/ O_O \m/

― ksh, Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:23 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

At 03:20 into this I don't what to do. What happens there is just, fuck.

― Mule, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:35 (thirteen years ago)

don't *know what to do..

― Mule, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:36 (thirteen years ago)

in to what

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:43 (thirteen years ago)

curious?

― charlie h, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 01:40 (thirteen years ago)

what

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:31 (thirteen years ago)

just saying i'm curious about what song Mule is talking about.

― charlie h, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:42 (thirteen years ago)

me too.

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:47 (thirteen years ago)

Damn, I can't believe I forgot to mention the song! Sorry guys. It was Jane Doe, and it's almost too good.

― Mule, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:30 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/pDEMx.gif

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:21 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

new album is a stupid excellent monster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vZRGK4FbI

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 October 2012 03:06 (thirteen years ago)

fuuuck

― j., Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:34 (thirteen years ago)

i heard some record the other day that i thought was really awesome but now i forgot what it was after hearing this

― j., Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:46 (thirteen years ago)

better on every new listen. absolutely brutal guitar playing on "sadness comes home". the man is a beast.

― charlie h, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:48 (thirteen years ago)

and when i say brutal, i mean brutal with deft hand, pinpoint control and finesse. that guitar line from start to finish, solo included, is the stuff of genius.

― charlie h, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:52 (thirteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

once a week or so i figure out one of the lyrics and the record gets heavier

― j., Thursday, 22 November 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

^^ that's quite an abstract post, but i think i know exactly what you mean :)

― charlie h, Friday, 23 November 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago)

yeah, i'm just saying, they're surprisingly comprehensible, considering that they're unintelligible howling

― j., Friday, 23 November 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLgGw5BGqA

― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 06:15 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

Christ Jane Doe is so incredible

― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 8 June 2013 05:55 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

all we love is spoiling more run-of-the-mill post-hc metally records for me, they can't crush and maneuver like it does

― j., Wednesday, 10 July 2013 20:40 (twelve years ago)

No Heroes popped on iPod Friday, apologies to all who were sat near me on the nightbus

― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (stevie), Thursday, 11 July 2013 08:13 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

god i love this record

― j., Monday, 16 September 2013 14:48 (twelve years ago)

seven months pass...

CONVERGE SHARES NEW VIDEO
Watch "Precipice / All We Love We Leave Behind" at Pitchfork:
http://pitchfork.com/news/54784-converge-share-precipice-all-we-love-we-leave-behind-video/

Converge is proud to release the film/video for "Precipice / All We Love We Leave Behind", directed by Craig Murray (Converge, Oxbow, Narrows). Both tracks appear on Converge's 2012 full-length, All We Love We Leave Behind, out now on Epitaph/Deathwish Inc.

The video was conceptualized by Murray, using the narrative put forth of the death of a canine companion as told in J. Bannon’s lyrical writings. Murray uses powerful visual metaphor and imagery to communicate the crushing weight of loss and the strength of unconditional love the song explores.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:36 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

http://loudwire.com/converge-two-new-songs-video-i-can-tell-you-about-pain/

― j., Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:08 (eight years ago)

"Eve" is amazing. I hope there's a new album coming.

― jmm, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:24 (eight years ago)

three months pass...

the first side/half of The Dusk In Us is one of their best-ever stretches of music, as well as their most emo!

― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 13:05 (seven years ago)

though I'm completely baffled that "Eve" was relegated to b-side status

― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 13:07 (seven years ago)

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/converge-the_dusk_in_us_album_stream

FUCK

― j., Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:57 (seven years ago)

I find it utterly bizarre that "Eve" was left off, feels purpose-built to be a Side A closer

― Simon H., Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:15 (seven years ago)

maybe they'll add it on; the last album came in a deluxe version that added 2-3 tracks

― j., Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:18 (seven years ago)

this record is very good on first listen but man it's a lot to take in

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:50 (seven years ago)

I actually find it tidier and less overwhelming than AWLWLB

― Simon H., Sunday, 5 November 2017 00:02 (seven years ago)

lol I said the Eve thing twice, no more drunkposting for me

― Simon H., Sunday, 5 November 2017 00:06 (seven years ago)

Insanely good. I just expect that a new Converge album will be incredible.

I think "Murk & Marrow" is my favourite on first pass.

― jmm, Sunday, 5 November 2017 00:14 (seven years ago)

hard to tell bc all of their records are so good but i think this one probably earns the "best since jane doe" description

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:24 (seven years ago)

this opinion brought to you by how hard i am headbanging at home alone to "arkhipov calm"

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:34 (seven years ago)

Amen - this record is melting my mind today! Not sure where I would rank it, but I can see myself playing this as much as I can the last one or Jane.

― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 5 November 2017 19:01 (seven years ago)

why did they put the one that kills me right up front

― j., Sunday, 5 November 2017 19:55 (seven years ago)

the total sickness of the drums on 'trigger' is just ,

― j., Sunday, 5 November 2017 20:28 (seven years ago)

FUCK

― j., Monday, 6 November 2017 01:17 (seven years ago)

It's nice to not have to strain to make out what Bannon is singing/speaking/shrieking/howling about for a change.

― Simon H., Monday, 6 November 2017 18:58 (seven years ago)

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/converge_left_the_best_songs_off_of_the_dusk_in_us_and_four_other_facts_about_their_new_album

"We all disagreed about what the strongest songs were, and which songs made for the best record. I think we're all equally unhappy with what ended up on the album. It was a compromise. Some of the songs on that album are actually some of the weakest ones that we recorded, and some of the ones that aren't on the album are the strongest. We're just not exactly sure how we're going to release them yet. Whether it's B-sides, or an EP, we don't know yet."

― j., Monday, 6 November 2017 20:07 (seven years ago)

kinda wish they'd pulled a Young Machetes and just thrown 'em all in. the album already kinda has a swansong vibe

― Simon H., Monday, 6 November 2017 20:12 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

for your consideration

― j., Wednesday, 27 December 2017 01:55 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

the intro to 'all we love' is the only dawdling buildup intro track i respect

― j., Monday, 11 November 2019 23:59 (five years ago)

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