Converge have announced a new album called Love Is Not Enough, which is set for release on February 13 via Deathwish. It follows the metalcore band’s 2017 LP The Dusk in Us and the 2021 Chelsea Wolfe collab Bloodmoon: I. Check out the title track below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
According to vocalist Jacob Bannon, ‘Love Is Not Enough’ “explores what it means to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. A reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future — if we can fend off the scavengers.”
The album was recorded and mixed by guitarist Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, MA. “I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre,” Bannon said. “Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.”
Bannon added: “It does a thing that no other Converge record does—it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
Love Is Not Enough Cover Artwork:
Love Is Not Enough Tracklist:
1. Love Is Not Enough
2. Bad Faith
3. Distract and Divide
4. To Feel Something
5. Beyond Repair
6. Amon Amok
7. Force Meets Presence
8. Gilded Cage
9. Make Me Forget You
10. We Were Never The Same
