Album Review: Converge - The Dusk In Us

Like blues musicians of old, Converge have only grown more salty and combustible as time marches mercilessly on.

The Dusk In Us is not as fast or single-mindedly vicious as say Jane Doe, but they've absolutely mastered their noise and have rarely sounded as soul-crushingly desperate as they do here. The slow grind of Under Duress is mentally lacerating, Eye Of The Quarrel equally devastating, while A Single Tear pulls their evolving songcraft in ever-edgier directions. Tell their legion of imitators they're going to be playing catch-up a while longer.