Heavy music’s most established and innovative band, Converge will release their highly anticipated new studio album, ‘All We Love We Leave Behind’ on October 8th, along with a deluxe package that includes a 48 page full-color hardcover, clothbound book with original art created by front-man Jacob Bannon via Epitaph (vinyl on Deathwish).
Accompanying the track ‘Aimless Arrow’, is a new video directed by talented filmmaker Max Moore (Whips/Chains, Code Orange Kids, etc) that visually expands on the heavy emotional lyrical content that the song carries. Considered one of the most intense, important, and influential metal/hardcore bands of all time, the band’s latest album is the most integral album to date in a catalog that’s celebrated to an almost religious degree by countless fans of punk, metal and hardcore. You can watch the video right now, below.
For the first time in years, ‘All We Love We Leave Behind’ is an album that contains no special guests or outside collaborators and every aspect of the music, production and aesthetics of the album was handled by Converge in order to give listeners an unfiltered glimpse into the creative vision of these Boston-based innovators.
Recorded and mixed by guitarist Kurt Ballou at his renowned Godcity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, ‘All We Love We Leave Behind’ is a no-frills Converge album that sees the band—which also features vocalist Jacob Bannon, bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller—eschewing fancy production techniques in order to create seventeen songs that work as a cohesive whole yet can also stand on their own. “There’s no artificial distortion, triggers, or Auto-Tune on this album”, Ballou explains, “it’s all organic, it’s real sounds that capture the way the band performs live.”
“I think we really stepped up our game on this record. The most important thing to this band is that with every album we want to create something that excites us and moves us in some way”, explains Bannon. “There are a lot of subtle nuances on this record are really special to us and we definitely hit those individually on this record.”
Following the release of ‘All We Love We Leave Behind’, Converge will embark on an extensive European tour in November and December this year. For full list of dates, see further below.
25 November London Koko
26 November Birmingham O2 Academy 2
27 November Colchester Arts Centre
28 November Glasgow Classic Grand
29 November Manchester Academy 2
30 November Dublin The Button Factory
1 December Brighton Concorde 2
