History Music / Converge

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: A prime example of LyricalDissonance in extreme metal and hardcore, as despite their extremely noisy and heavy sound they generally only clock in around a 6 or occasional 7, with angsty lyrics with relatively little swearing, violence or other explicit content. Some songs like ''A Single Tear'' go down to a 3.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Most of Converge's output is ''at least'' an 8. At their most, they're a solid 11 (take "Phoenix in Flames" as an example). Most of the time they are a 10, however, making them one of the heaviest (if not ''the'' heaviest) {{Metalcore}} bands around.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: At least [[OnceAnEpisode once an album]]. "Ten Cents" on ''When Forever Comes Crashing'', "Phoenix in Flight" on ''Jane Doe'' (and, at a push, "Hell to Pay" as well), "First Light" and "In Her Shadow" on ''You Fail Me'', "Grim Heart/Black Rose" on ''No Heroes'' (although the very end is fairly heavy), "Cruel Bloom" and "Wretched World" on ''Axe to Fall'', "Precipice/All We Love We Leave Behind" on ''All We Love We Leave Behind'' and "The Dusk in Us" and "Thousands of Miles Between Us" on ''The Dusk in Us''. "Phoenix in Flight" subverts it with its coda "Phoenix in Flames", which probably hits 11 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness (see LastNoteNightmare above).

* ''Bloodmoon: Act I'' (With Music/ChelseaWolf and others.) (2021)

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: A prime example of LyricalDissonance in extreme metal and hardcore, as despite their extremely noisy and heavy sound they generally only clock in around a 6 or occasional 7, with angsty lyrics with relatively little swearing, violence or other explicit content.

* ''Bloodmoon: Act I'' (With Music/ChelseaWolfe) and others (2021)

* SludgeMetal: As with grindcore and post-hardcore, they aren't a sludge band *per se*, but it is definitely an influence on their records which came after ''Jane Doe''. See the songs "Under Duress", "Jane Doe", "Empty On The Inside", "Plagues", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast", "Damages", "Predatory Glow", and "Glacial Pace"

* SludgeMetal: As with grindcore and post-hardcore, they aren't a sludge band per say but it is definitely an influence on post- ''Jane Doe'' records. See the songs "Under Duress", "Jane Doe", "Empty On The Inside", "Plagues", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast", "Damages", "Predatory Glow", and "Glacial Pace"

Converge is a crossover HeavyMetal-HardcorePunk band formed in 1990 in Salem, Massachusetts, which has released seven studio albums to date. Considered to be a [[UrExample founding father]] of the {{Metalcore}} and Mathcore genres, the band helped define many facets of metallic hardcore for many bands to come.

They are well-known for their early and distinctive blend of extreme metal, hardcore punk and noise rock, coupled with the [[CarefulWithThatAxe various]] [[MetalScream vocal]] [[OurBansheesAreLouder stylings]] of vocalist Jacob Bannon. As such they have a very distinctive musical style, albeit one which is very abrasive and possibly unpleasant to first-time listeners. Despite this, over the years Converge has won a large fanbase and critical acclaim, with Sputnikmusic declaring that their 2001 release ''Jane Doe'' was the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic best album of the decade]].

* ''Halo in a Haystack'', 1994
* ''Petitioning the Empty Sky'', 1996 (1997 as a remastered release; remastered again in 2005)
* ''When Forever Comes Crashing'', 1998 (remastered in 2005)
* ''Jane Doe'', 2001
* ''You Fail Me'', 2004 (later remixed as ''You Fail Me Redux", released in 2016)
* ''No Heroes'', 2006
* ''Axe to Fall'', 2009
* ''All We Love We Leave Behind'', 2012
* ''The Dusk in Us'', 2017

!!Tropes that apply to Converge:

+Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/TheCure, Bad Brains, Music/TheSmiths, Music/BlackFlag, Music/BlackSabbath, Born Against, The Accused, Music/DuranDuran, Music/DepecheMode, Helmet, Music/{{Jawbox}}, Music/FaithNoMore, Fugazi, Starkweather, Rorschach, The Jesus Lizard, Music/{{Neurosis}}

They are well-known for their early and distinctive blend of extreme metal, hardcore punk and noise rock, coupled with the [[CarefulWithThatAxe various]] [[MetalScream vocal]] [[OurBansheesAreLouder stylings]] of vocalist Jacob Bannon. As such they have a very distinctive musical style, albeit one which is very abrasive and possibly unpleasant to first-time listeners. Despite this, over the years Converge has won a large fanbase and critical acclaim, with Sputnikmusic declaring that their 2001 release ''Jane Doe'' was the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome best album of the decade]].

* MinisculeRocking: Plenty of their songs. The opening of ''No Heroes'', for example, goes through five songs in about the same amount of minutes.

* MetalScream: One of the few Metalcore bands to use Type 3 as [[HellIsThatNoise their main style of singing.]] Type 1 also shows up sometimes.

* MetalScream: One of the few bands to use Type 4 as [[HellIsThatNoise their main style of singing.]]

* PerishingAltRockVoice: Jacob Bannon's singing voice is like this, and if they have a guest vocalist in the chances are they'll sing like this too.

+Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/TheCure, Bad Brains, Music/TheSmiths, Music/BlackFlag, Music/BlackSabbath, Born Against, The Accused, Music/DuranDuran, Music/DepecheMode, Helmet, Music/{{Jawbox}}, Music/FaithNoMore, Fugazi, Starkweather, Rorschach, The Jesus Lizard

* DoomMetal: "Wretched World".

* CoverVersion: "Disintegration" by Music/TheCure, "Serial Killer" by Vio-lence, "Snowblind" by Music/BlackSabbath, "Weinerschnitzel" by Descendents, "Wolverine Blues" by Music/{{Entombed}}, "Annihilate This Week" by Music/BlackFlag and "Clean" by Music/DepecheMode

* EpicRocking: A handful of their songs, including "Grim Heart/Black Rose" (9:34), "The Saddest Day" (7:05), "Wretched World" (7:10), "Homesong" (6:00), "In Her Shaddow" (6:25), "Jane Doe" (11:32) and their covers of "Disintegration" (6:45) and "Clean" (6:03)

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: At least [[OnceAnEpisode once an album]]. "Ten Cents" on ''When Forever Comes Crashing'', "Phoenix in Flight" on ''Jane Doe'' (and, at a push, "Hell to Pay" as well), "First Light" and "In Her Shadow" on ''You Fail Me'', "Grim Heart/Black Rose" on ''No Heroes'' (although the very end is fairly heavy), "Cruel Bloom" and "Wretched World" on ''Axe to Fall'', "Precipice/All We Love We Leave Behind" on ''All We Love We Leave Behind'' and "[[TitleTrack The Dusk in Us]]" and "Thousands of Miles Between Us" on ''The Dusk in Us''. "Phoenix in Flight" subverts it with its coda "Phoenix in Flames", which probably hits 11 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness (see LastNoteNightmare above).

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: At least [[OnceAnEpisode once an album]]. "Ten Cents" on ''When Forever Comes Crashing'', "Phoenix in Flight" on ''Jane Doe'' (and, at a push, "Hell to Pay" as well), "First Light" and "In Her Shadow" on ''You Fail Me'', "Grim Heart/Black Rose" on ''No Heroes'' (although the very end is fairly heavy), "Cruel Bloom" and "Wretched World" on ''Axe to Fall'' and "Precipice/All We Love We Leave Behind" on ''All We Love We Leave Behind''. "Phoenix in Flight" subverts it with its coda "Phoenix in Flames", which probably hits 11 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness (see LastNoteNightmare above).

* CoverVersion: "Disintegration" by Music/TheCure, "Serial Killer" by Vio-lence, "Snowblind" by Music/BlackSabbath, "Insurrection of the Living Dead" by Bulldozer, "Wolverine Blues" by Music/{{Entombed}}, "Annihilate This Week" by Music/BlackFlag and "Clean" by Music/DepecheMode

* EpicRocking: A handful of their songs, including "Grim Heart/Black Rose" (9:34), "The Saddest Day" (7:05), "Wretched World" (7:10), "Homesong" (6:00), "In Her Shaddow" (6:25), "Jane Doe" (11:32) and their covers of "Disintegration" (6:45) and "Insurrection of the Living Damned" (6:37)

* TextlessAlbumCover: ''All We Love We Leave Behind''.

* ''Petitioning the Empty Sky'', 1996 (1997 as a remastered release)
* ''When Forever Comes Crashing'', 1998

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: At least [[OnceAnEpisode once an album]]. "Ten Cents" on ''When Forever Comes Crashing'', "Phoenix in Flight" on ''Jane Doe'' (and, at a push, "Hell to Pay" as well), "In Her Shadow" on ''You Fail Me'', "Grim Heart/Black Rose" on ''No Heroes'' (although the very end is fairly heavy), "Cruel Bloom" and "Wretched World" on ''Axe to Fall'' and "Precipice/All We Love We Leave Behind" on ''All We Love We Leave Behind''. "Phoenix in Flight" subverts it with its coda "Phoenix in Flames", which probably hits 11 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness (see LastNoteNightmare above).

+Code Orange Kids (handpicked for label by Bannon, mentored/produced by Ballou)

** Hell, they have even done a split with NapalmDeath!

* LongRunnerLineUp: Since Aaron Dalbec's leaving in 2001, their line-up has remained constant as of 2013.