Converge

Converge and Napalm Death are aiming to make you deaf with their upcoming split. The extreme bands will each contribute two tracks and it'll be issued as both a 7″ and a digital EP. Converge will drop new song "No Light Escapes" and a cover of Entombed's "Wolverine Blues" while Napalm Death will include new songs "Will By Mouth" and "No Impediment to Triumph (Bho

Like many Americans, Kurt Ballou holds down two jobs these days. But it just happens that those two jobs happen to be playing guitar in the mighty Converge and recording your favorite bands at his GodCity studio. Located in Salem, Mass...

2011 was a killer year for heavy metal and hard rock. New albums from the likes of Mastodon, Krallice, and Craft, among many other acts, floored us and proved that the artists we cover here are among the most stylistically diverse in music today...

Since the late '90s, Dominick Fernow a.k.a. Prurient has been creating some of the most extreme and challenging noise music to come out of New York City. While there's no such thing as a typical Prurient recording, a number of key tracks feature piercing, wildly out-of-control feedback and distorted, downright painful sounds that could make any black metal fan reach for the volume knob... Read Mo

Hardcore label Deathwish has always gone against the grain. The imprint continues that tradition with its new hoodie and t-shirt designs, which combine the worlds of MMA and hardcore punk. Deathwish leader, Converge frontman, and visual artist Jacob Bannon has created a hybrid design for British welterweight fighter Dan 'The Outlaw' Hardy and Boston hardcore sourpusses Blood For Blood... Read Mo

The name Blacklisted has become synonymous with pushing the envelope in hardcore. Last year's genre-bending 'No One Deserves to Be Here More Than Me' put them atop a short list of bands to step far from the paint by numbers breakdowns of many peers...

In terms of hardcore, one of many bands' goals is to get something put out on the Jacob Bannon-founded Deathwish/Malfunction label, but Trash Talk were not wanting to call it home, so they left to build their own label, Trash Talk Collective, in 2007...

Maryland Deathfest performers Watain and Pentagram have contributed songs to a free digital extreme metal compilation that will be distributed at the event by Metalhit.com. Other artists on the collection are Revocation, the Crinn, Wormrot, Graves of Valor, Hail of Bullets, Nominon, Cardiac Arrest, Sectioned, Diabolic, Colonize the Rotting, Aldaaron, Sacrilegious Impalement, Vulvectomy and Othrus.

For 23 years now, Integrity have stood as an undeniable influence in hardcore -- Converge and Hatebreed act as references to the band's pension for the darkest riff possible. But the band has always stood alone. More importantly, founder Dwid Hellion has, surrounded by a revolving door of collaborators from all over the world...

The 'Axe to Fall' tour is one of the most intense tours around this year, but the first casualty has been marked: Lewd Acts. The San Diego band has been a tucked away secret of noise and shunning of the metal shrieks of modern hardcore, not known to head out East and all all points surrounding -- so their slot as support for Converge has been highly anticipated...