{"id":2164638,"date":"2025-11-18T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2164638"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:30:23","slug":"converge-announce-new-album-love-is-not-enough-with-brutal-title-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/converge-announce-new-album-love-is-not-enough-with-brutal-title-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Converge announce new album &#8216;Love Is Not Enough&#8217; with brutal title track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/converge\">Converge<\/a> have shared details of a new album called \u2018Love Is Not Enough\u2019, and shared the blistering new title track.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping various teasers online earlier this week, the band are back with details of their 11th studio album.<\/p>\n<p>Set for release on February 13, the record comes 35 years into their time as a band, and is set to mark the climax of their decades-long journey through the world of punk, hardcore and metal.<\/p>\n<p>Today (Tuesday November 18), they have shared the first taster of the record with the brutal title track, which captures the immense emotion and power that the members continue throughout the LP.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the inspiration behind the track, singer Jacob Bannon said that the song \u201cexplores what it means to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world\u201d. He also added that it is \u201ca reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future \u2013 if we can fend off the scavengers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Converge - &quot;Love Is Not Enough&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxelfxGa2oo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As for the album as a whole, the tracklist aims to be all of their experience coming together more clearly than ever before. A press release shares that it will not feature any special guests nor any \u201cstudio trickery\u201d, but rather capture the raw, unadulterated force that the band capture together when in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre,\u201d the frontman shared. \u201cThings either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it\u2019s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they\u2019re doing by editing every aspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It\u2019s not perfectly executed. There\u2019s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to explain how \u2018Love Is Not Enough\u2019 is all about momentum, rather than manicured perfection, Bannon shared: \u201cIt does a thing that no other Converge record does \u2013 it keeps ramping up, and that\u2019s definitely by design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently, and there\u2019s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3909778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3909778\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3909778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Converge \u2018Love Is Not Enough\u2019 artwork. CREDIT: Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The record was mixed by guitarist Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, Massachusetts, and engineering assistance came from Zach Weeks. You can <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/converge.ffm.to\/loveisnotenough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-order the record here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next month, Converge will perform at the Saddest Day Festival in Boston, Massachusetts, before heading over to the pond for festival appearances at Jera On Air in the Netherlands and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/outbreak-2026-alexisonfire-pup-suicidal-tendencies-and-converge-part-of-stacked-manchester-line-up-3904679\">Outbreak Fest in the UK<\/a> on June 25 and 27, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, it was shared that the American hardcore veterans had <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/converge-release-new-live-album-to-raise-funds-for-hurricane-helene-relief-3800045\">dropped a new live album to raise funds for Hurricane Helene relief efforts<\/a>. The album was recorded at The Abbey in Orlando, Florida in March 2022 and consisted of 18 tracks, including \u2018Under Duress\u2019, \u2018I Can Tell You About Pain\u2019 and \u2018Concubine\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converge have shared details of a new album called \u2018Love Is Not Enough\u2019, and shared the blistering new title track. 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