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Converge is tagged as: hardcore, mathcore, metalcore, chaotic hardcore, noisecore

Converge is a 4-piece American band, formed in February of 1990 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Playing a blend of extreme metal and hardcore punk, this pioneer outfit helped define a lot of the rudiments of the fast-burgeoning metalcore and mathcore genres.
They first started by playing covers of hardcore, punk and heavy metal songs, being self-confessed ”hardcore kids with leftover Slayer riffs”. The band soon graduated to playing live performances in 1991 after recording some demos on a 4-track recorder.
In their latter years, Converge have enjoyed relatively high levels of popularity despite the esoteric feel of their music and the substantial lack of media attention they receive. The extreme nature of their music, particularly the atonal vocals and often complicated finger-work of the guitar riffs make it difficult for some to appreciate this brand of metal. Later records have gradually become more extensively produced largely due to the maturation of their sound.
Converge’s influences range from hardcore punk bands, such as Black Flag, Negative Approach, The Accüsed, and Born Against; metal bands like Black Sabbath, Godflesh, Slayer, and Entombed; and proto-mathcore bands Starkweather and Rorschach. Jacob Bannon has also discussed an ...
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Top 10 Converge Songs
Aimless Arrow
Tender Abuse
Sadness Comes Home
Empty on the Inside
Trespasses
Sparrow's Fall
Vicious Muse
Coral Blue
Dark Horse
Shame in the Way
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Top 10 Converge Albums
All We Love We Leave Behind
Jane Doe
Axe to Fall
You Fail Me
No Heroes
Petitioning the Empty Sky
When Forever Comes Crashing
Unloved and Weeded Out
Converge / Napalm Death Split
Caring and Killing
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