{"id":2280173,"date":"2026-02-13T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280173"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:18:44","slug":"converge-love-is-not-enough-new-music-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/converge-love-is-not-enough-new-music-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Converge \u2013 Love Is Not Enough: New Music Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Converge\u2019s latest album is out on this New Music Friday \u2013 revisit Live4ever\u2019s review and stream \u2018Love Is Not Enough\u2019 right here.<\/h3>\n

The blurb that accompanies\u00a0Love Is Not Enough<\/a>\u00a0has one killer line that stands out as a metaphor both for the record and\u00a0Converge<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n

In seeking to describe the ten song, thirty-minute salvo of Converge\u2019s eleventh album of a career stretching back thirty-five years, the author just leads with the pithy but arrow accurate: \u201cThere isn\u2019t an ounce of fat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That may also seem a strange thing to say, but the band themselves are keen to double down on it, vocalist Jacob Bannon tying it off with: \u201cSometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\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

For Bannon and his fellow Converge members Kurt Ballou (guitar), Nate Newton (bass) and Ben Koller (drums), the idea of somehow polishing their sound \u2013 which for the uninitiated blends many different flavours of metal with punk, screamo, hardcore and anything else they fancy \u2013 is anathema.<\/p>\n

Having formed in Massachusetts in the mid-90s, they equally refuse to be defined by the neo-classic status afforded to 2001\u2019s Jane Doe, or give any head to the machismo that permeates the male dominated, extreme noise fringes of the various movements they live in.<\/p>\n

The title Love Is Not Enough sums up where Bannon feels many of us are, struggling to find the empathy and personal energy to live beyond insulating ourselves from fear or harm.<\/p>\n

To express this without anger is difficult in any medium, but the titular opener isn\u2019t willing to concede an inch, a thrash tempo blast of metal overload with a stark message for the conceited: \u201cWe must grow to stomach the taste of our own blood\/We have to accept that love is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click here for the review in full<\/a><\/p>\n