Converge - Sadness Comes Home

1. Converge -- All We Love We Leave Behind
October 9 -- Epitaph Records
United States
With their eighth studio album, Converge have whipped out the red hot iron and further seared their worthy name onto the metal world's fat ass. The group is heralded as one of the groups that has helped define metal over the last decade, successfully mashing together metal, punk and various "-core"s, to the bloody pleasure of eager ears worldwide. "Sadness Comes Home" is an excellent snapshot of Converge at its best -- a slow stoner riff that's slashed open by frantic guitars, spiked with Bannon's mental vocals, and pushed to the brink by Koller's rabid drum trampling. If you've been away from the scene for a while and are wondering what the hell's going on, there's no better example of the metal zeitgeist than All We Love We Leave Behind.