Nine years have passed since the release of Converge’s last album, ‘The Dusk In Us’. While the more recent ‘Bloodmoon: I’ – the band’s admirably ambitious collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe – prevented the passing of a near-decade of Converge-less time, the wait for a new Converge album proper has never been greater. And the resultant ‘Love Is Not Enough’ is very much a Converge album proper. The gothic charm of ‘Bloodmoon: I’ is gone, to be replaced instead by the same raw atavism that made albums like ‘Jane Doe’ and ‘Axe To Fall’ the milestones they’ve become. In this regard, little has changed for Converge.
In others, however, everything has changed. Now in his fifties, guitarist Kurt Ballou has become one of modern metal’s most reputable producers. Vocalist Jacob Bannon holds the equally impressive achievement of co-founding the now well-established Deathwish Inc. record label; not to mention his various successes in visual media. This is all in addition to…
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