Converge?

[The_Isle]

Ok yea they're metalcore and yes their lyrics are about relationship breakups but I don't hear any of the gothenburg influence that is so much criticised of metalcore.

As far as I understand it they are closer to true hardcore, but whatever, I find their spastic discordant riffing effective somehow. opinions?

 

[Hatebreeder]

Metalcore, eh? Well, they'd better not have a crappy lead vocalist; otherwise, I'm game.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

I have a lot of friends that live by them, but their music seems too random, and not totally organized.

 

[Hatebreeder]

^ If that's the case, you can count me out. I don't like music like that.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

The only thing I can really can compare Converge to is probably A Life Once lost, but they're just a shitty rip of Meshuggah so...

 

[Hatebreeder]

The only thing I can really can compare Converge to is probably A Life Once lost, but they're just a shitty rip of Meshuggah so...

Alright. I'm out. I don't like ALOL and Meshuggah is the only band of that type I can handle.

 

[Wires & Waves]

they dont sound anything like that

 

[Post_Scriptum]

Converge owns all, I'm sorry guys.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

they dont sound anything like that

Well in terms of "mathcore" influence, and yes Jane Doe sounded like A Life Once lost, except for the vocals, wich just plain suck.

 

[R.I.P.2]

jane doe is fab

 

[Scourge of Malice]

Converge is awesome. They are far from just metalcore.. they have plenty of other elements. Highly reccomend their last two albums!

 

[hibernal_dream]

^ If that's the case, you can count me out. I don't like music like that.

Then what's Opeth doing in your sig?

 

[Perpetual Catatonia]

Then what's Opeth doing in your sig?

From what I remember Opeth is a bit more deathy and progressive than Converge, Meshuggah, and A Life Once Lost...

But then again I've only heard Opeth like once and it was a long time ago.

 

[Jreg]

Ok yea they're metalcore and yes their lyrics are about relationship breakups but I don't hear any of the gothenburg influence that is so much criticised of metalcore.

As far as I understand it they are closer to true hardcore, but whatever, I find their spastic discordant riffing effective somehow. opinions?

Well, they're one of the bands that kinda leaned back towards the hardcore side after "metalcore" became a naughty word (as opposed to, say, Shadows Fall, who went more the metal route). I initially had trouble tolerating them due mainly to the fact that 3 or 4 years ago they seemed to give birth to a million awful clones. But Jane Doe is a decent album in its own right when I actually sit and listen to it now.

 

[Gorva]

The Jane Doe album is brutal.

 

[MasKedRage]

i personally hate em....but 'Dead' is a good song, (on their album 'Petitioning The Empty Sky'). This is irrelevant, but they have really good album art,

 

[Life Sucks]

I don't like Converge, even though they are pretty heavy for a metalcore band. They're basically early Dillenger Escape Plan with gay relationship lyrics.

 

[Teh Grimace]

1. 98% of the posts in this thread have been utter faggotry.

2. Converge sounds absolutely fucking nothing like Meshuggah.


3. Converge pwns your collective mom.

 

[Necro Joe]

Converge is awesome. Highly reccomend their last two albums!

YES! Though it should read last four albums.

They have more in common with Botch and (early) Cave In than Dillinger but sometimes the sheer head-caving force of their music draws comparisons with the newer, more grind influenced metalcore bands like Ion Dissonance and Crowpath. They also have a knack for mixng in unusual slower songs that have a tortured doom/sludge feel to them.

The Broken Vow off Jane Doe

 

[Gorva]

YES! Though it should read last four albums.

They have more in common with Botch and (early) Cave In than Dillinger but sometimes the sheer head-caving force of their music draws comparisons with the newer, more grind influenced metalcore bands like Ion Dissonance and Crowpath. They also have a knack for mixng in unusual slower songs that have a tortured doom/sludge feel to them.

The Broken Vow off Jane Doe

QFT!