Converge Returning To Australia In 2013
All We Love they bring back to Aus
One of heavy music's best-loved bands, the influential, acclaimed and downright pummelling Converge have announced their return to Australian shores for February 2013.
The band, who recently released latest album All We Love We Leave Behind, have been active for over two decades now and are one of the driving bands behind the modern waves of metal-influenced punk-hardcore.
While their back catalogue has numerous stand-out releases, including 2001's Jane Doe and 2004's You Fail Me, All We Love We Leave Behind stands just as tall. 'Stripping back' the approach to cut out guest vocalists and outside influences, they – once again – prove that they are probably the best at what they do and remarkably can find new ground in a genre that many suggested had run its course.
We spoke to the band's vocalist Jacob Bannon recently who told us, "I think we're always the most emotionally in tune with the most recent record we've released. I think that's the way bands should be, because if you're not, you're doing something wrong. I've always felt that it was odd when bands do a tour of like their old hit record or something like that, because that's discrediting the emotional substance, and artistic substance of the records they did after that.
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"For me, I wouldn't want to put out something that was anything less than the record before it. I feel like we should always be refining what we do, improving on what we do, and becoming more coherent artists, and more technical players in the world of music that we live in. The more we do that, the more we move forward, hopefully that's reflected in our music. If it wasn't, we probably just wouldn't be in a band. We'd just stop.”
With US 'supergroup' Old Man Gloom (members of Isis, Cane In, Converge, Zozobra) joining them for the dates, tickets go on sale Friday 9 November.
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