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	Converge - Biography - AOL Music
		Incredibly prolific punk-metal road dogs Converge were formed in the winter of 1990-1991, and after several singles, compilation appearances, and the requisite growing pains, they released their first full-length, Halo in a Haystack, in 1994.
		Brodsky left the band that same year to be replaced by bassist Nate Newton; Bellorado exited in 1999 and, soon enough, the band had welcomed drummer Ben Koller into the fray.
		Converge was by now regarded as one of the most original and innovative bands to emerge from the punk underground.
	music.aol.com /artist/converge/290887/biography (448 words)

	Kurt Ballou (Converge) interview // Interviews // Features // Lambgoat
		Sometimes, it's a band that I don't know as people but I really like the music and I think I can do a good job in recording them and sometimes I might not know the people or care about the music, but if their heart is in the right place then I'll do it.
		Converge is of course my number one form of advertising for my studio, I don't advertise it any other way and as someone who is in a somewhat-known hardcore band, most of the bands I record are hardcore bands.
		A band can do the same things, with the same producer, in the same studio, with the same equipment but if they can't play their instruments properly or don't have good songs then it's not going to make a good album.
	www.lambgoat.com /features/interviews/kurt_ballou.aspx (2769 words)

	themusicedge.com :: Converge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The sheer fact that Converge has been pushing the boundaries for the past ten or so years is testament to the collective creativity of a band that by today’s terrible radio standards should have failed in the first two years.
		Converge is not for the faint of heart.
		They are purely a band you either despise or revere, their music is challenging in the fact that it’s not an inactive listening experience.
	www.themusicedge.com /moxie/news/reviews/converge.shtml (528 words)

	scenepointblank: Converge - No Heroes
		Converge, who have now been together for over 15 years, have just released their seventh album—far beyond the output of most hardcore bands.
		Converge is a band that expands their palette with each album while at the same time never losing track of what makes them who they are.
		Converge is one of those bands you can praise until you're blue in the face, but it still could not do them justice.
	www.scenepointblank.com /reviews/1039 (1169 words)

	MTV News \| Metal File: Converge, Machine Head, At the Gates, Unearth & More News That Rules
		Converge don't ascribe to the old punk axiom "kill your idols" — they just think you should maim them a bit.
		Sure, over the past year, the band was meticulous about writing the new songs, but when it was time to record, many of the tunes were tracked in their entirety in just one or two takes.
		Converge will be on tour with Mastodon and the Bronx this fall, starting September 6 in Baltimore, with dates scheduled through September 30 in San Diego.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1538871/20060817/converge.jhtml?headlines=true (1391 words)

	Equal Vision Records \| Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With Forever, Converge pushed their artistic limits to new levels of anguish, while musically evolving a noisier, more atmospheric and emotionally rending brand of metallic hardcore that was spurned on by complex playing, increasingly vicious vocals and poetically shattered lyrics.
		Having cut their teeth playing with anyone of importance during metallic hardcore’s mid-’90s revival, Converge’s live show is fraught with flailing equipment and bodies, with kids piled five-deep in a desperate attempt to close on the mic, all the while driven by Bannon and Converge’s demonic exorcisms and emotional venting.
		With Converge’s role as metallic hardcore innovators/trendsetters/flag-bearers firmly cemented with over a decade’s worth of aural destruction, it would have been easy for Converge to succumb to the hyperbole like many before them and become unapproachable elitists contemptuous of the scene they helped drive and that initially formed them, but they haven’t.
	www.equalvision.com /evr/bands.php?band_id=8 (864 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Jane Doe - Converge at Epinions.com
		Amongst the ranks of this new movement is a band who are responsible for one of the most intense, moving, brutal and beautiful musical experiences of all time - that band is Converge.
		To my mind, Converge produce perfect, unpretentious art: if art is expression of the self and music is an artistic medium, then Converge have suceeded in transferring their chaotic emotions to an even more chaotic medium.
		Converge, however, are much more poetic than TDEP, not because Dillinger are contrived but simply because Converge have totally immersed their musical output in the emotional instability of Jacob Bannan.
	www.epinions.com /content_127225138820 (1365 words)

	punkrockacademy.com - Interviews > Converge
		Converge was in Florida, following in the footsteps of a series of hurricanes which had ravaged that state - lucky for Florida, since Converge's music probably would have laid waste to whatever hadn't fallen down.
		You just mentioned that you wanted it to sound more like a live band in the studio and I've heard that some of these songs were at least partially written around the time "Jane Doe" was released and have evolved over the past few years.
		Especially in a band like Converge where that's what we've done for a long time, it was an experiment to see what we could keep ourselves from doing.
	www.punkrockacademy.com /stm/int/converge.html (3811 words)

	Converge
		Converge's influences range from hardcore punk bands such as Black Flag, Negative Approach and Born Against to extreme metal bands like Godflesh, Slayer and Entombed.
		There is much debate over where exactly Converge fall genre-wise due to their wide musical range, breaking of conventional boundaries and willingness to try and push in new directions.
		Converge themselves eschew classification into hardcore or metal, the genres they are closest to, and simply define their music as "aggressive music".
	www.artistopia.com /converge (828 words)

	Converge // Bands // Lambgoat
		Following their 1991 demo, the band contributed to numerous CD compilations, and eventually released their debut LP 'Halo in a Haystack.' It wasn't until Converge released its definitive 1996 release, 'Petitioning the Empty Sky' on Ferret Music, that the band received praise from critics everywhere, and were thrusted to the forefront of the metalcore movement.
		In early-1998, the band released its second full-length on EVR, 'When Forever Comes Crashing.' In the fall of 2001, the band would release its third full-length, entitled 'Jane Doe.' The band has had its fair share of line-up changes.
		An eclectic mix of hardcore, metal, punk, and noise, Converge is a dynamic band constantly pushing the boundaries of music and its visual presentation.
	www.lambgoat.com /bands/view.aspx?id=34 (299 words)

	Fucked Up Opus \| Music \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		The band put on spastic shows: howler Jacob Bannon fulminating like a fire-spitting dragon, wildly swinging his mic and racing across the stage, while drummer Ben Koller was a beast with double kick drums, the underpinning of their pulverizing sound.
		Converge are also an unpredictable gang of young avant-metalers, completely changing up a song two-thirds of the way through, then slowing it down to a turtle's pace before plunging forward again into chaos.
		Both Converge and the Dillinger Escape Plan have their specific audiences (aggro weightlifters, art-school punks, and hip thugs among them), which they'll have to remain content with, because it's hard to envision a large-scale crowd ever getting into music that's this fucked-up.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=19601 (714 words)

	MetalReview.com - Metal Review of Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing (Re-Issue)
		If you are unfamiliar with the aforementioned punk-oriented bands, a Converge record is more accurately expressed as an auditory journey through the most cavernous valleys of your life, a play-by-play re-enactment of each excruciating regret and fear you’ve ever had.
		Converge, conversely, are a far more personal proposition - read the lyrics, and you’ll sense that Bannon, in his disarming vulnerability, wants you to drink from his chalice of sorrow and join him in his moment of catharsis.
		Converge is so honest that I just want to hide from them and go back to listening to...something less painful.
	www.metalreview.com /ViewReview.aspx?ID=1604 (1358 words)

	Equal Vision Records \| Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The report was filed by the band's Road Manager, and famed tattoo artist, Dustin Horan after the group failed to meet him in the hotel lobby for breakfast Wednesday, as scheduled.
		The band, known for its original style of fast, edgy, rock, intense high-energy performances, and bold, take-no-prisoners image, was scheduled to play a concert at the Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia on Saturday.
		When questioned about the remainder of the bands tour, booking agent David Shapiro regretted having to put all future dates on hold for the time being, but was quick to add he was "confident the band will return safely" to finish out the tour.
	www.equalvision.com /evr/bands.php?band_id=53 (464 words)

	T-Shirt Fiend: Converge hardcore punk tshirt
		Converge 's lyrics tend to deal almost exclusively with romantic relationships gone awry, based on a male's perspective.
		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.
		Alongside Converge, bassist Nate Newton is also a constituent of the bands Old Man Gloom and Doomriders.
	www.tshirtfiend.com /converge_hardcore_punk_tshirt.php?osCsid=2ad655634bb74ed1a54beb393b91e4e6 (495 words)

	Decibel Magazine
		The three years in between saw metalcore reach its peak, and multitudes of acts claiming the band and album as inspiration appropriated Converge’s histrionics, but not the band’s character.
		Though No Heroes makes no apologies for the past, Converge have fully returned to the aggressive sound they pioneered, their balance between screamed aggression and emotional reprieve sounding closer to 1998’s Petitioning the Empty Sky than to the maelstrom of Jane Doe.
		On their website, frontman Jacob Bannon has described the album as a call-to-arms for people to break free from apathy, and to judge from this album’s songs, those are words that he and his band clearly live by.
	decibelmagazine.com /reviews/nov2006/converge.aspx (477 words)

	Sounds of the underground - The Phoenix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But as Converge continued to grow in the hardcore and metal scenes, Ballou was solicited by like-minded bands hoping to get some of that “Kurt magic.” Everyone from the Hope Conspiracy to Cave In to Modern Life Is War sought Ballou’s help in realizing their recording visions.
		To me, producing a record means you start from the very basic elements, you start your involvement with the band before they’re done writing songs and you spend a lot of time just demoing things, working on the songs, dismantling things that aren’t working in the songs and reassembling them.
		I very rarely record a band that I don’t like on some level, but I don’t really want to be credited as a producer on something that I haven’t left my mark on as a producer […] It’s like using my name as a selling feature of their record.
	www.thephoenix.com /PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=22843 (1377 words)

	Converge - Austin Band Reviews - MusicAustin
		Converge is a respected band for good reason+ and their album "Jane Doe" solidified their status as a band truly at the forefront of their scene.
		One of the great things about Converge is that they bring together all the elements of hardcore over the past twenty-five years into one distinct sound.
		This band is probably the most influential band in the Metalcore scene+ I mean+ this band equals existance.
	www.musicaustin.com /BandReviews/Converge (1535 words)

	CONVERGE "YOU FAIL ME" --- THE MUSIC SYNDICATE
		Aligning with Epitaph to mark a new chapter in the band’s rich history, CONVERGE – steered from its inception by vocalist Jacob Bannon – has been annihilating audiences in-the-know with skill and substance for thirteen years.
		Innovators in the metallic hardcore movement, CONVERGE has worked its collective ass off to become one of the biggest bands in the scene, evolving and pushing the boundaries of the sub-genre they helped define.
		Undeniably influential to a host of new bands embracing a similar approach, subsequent albums like 1998’s When Forever Comes Crashing and 2001’s Jane Doe were lauded by fans and scribes alike, pushing the group to the forefront of the underground.
	www.thesyn.com /metal/general6/CONV_youfa.asp (562 words)

	Amazon.com: No Heroes: Music: Converge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Converge of course emerged in the early '90s as part of a mutant strain of neo-neo hardcore, with bands smart enough to inject elements of art-rock and metal.
		Converge are poised to follow in the footsteps of bands like Darkest Hour and Norma Jean.
		Converge's musical abilities are astounding, but it's even more impressive that they never sound like a product of studio perfection -- every song here is brimming with live energy and genuine urgency.
	www.amazon.com /No-Heroes-Converge/dp/B000I2IRDW (2374 words)

	Cleveland Agora Theater and Ballroom
		Converge began playing in our earliest incarnation in the winter of 1990-1991.
		There are some bands that have been integral to influencing our sound: Starkweather, Rorschach, Born Against, Godflesh, The Accused, Entombed, just to name a few.
		Contrary to popular belief, touring band's have little say regarding what local area bands play their shows.
	www.clevelandagora.com /bands/info.asp?bandID=564 (624 words)

	Converge News
		The band released only two proper albums during a decade-long run-- 1999's American Nervoso and 2000's We Are the Romans -- but left a large legacy.
		Converge No Heroes isn't quite a back-to-roots move for these savants of metalcore, who practically perfected the stuff years ago.
		He talks about the band's sophomore release for Epitaph, No Heroes, which is due October 24th, their experience on the Sounds of the...
	www.topix.net /who/converge (675 words)

	Metal Reviews - Converge - "No Heroes " ( Metal Underground . com ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Critics and fans have been praising the band for more than 15 years, as much for their unbridled fury on record as their unflinching passion in the live setting.
		Never given to subtlety, Converge are quick to remind the listener what they are capable of.
		“No Heroes” finds Converge at the top of their game, clasping tightly to the “Jane Doe” intensity with a touch of the spit and polish found on “You Fail Me.” Vocalist Jacob Bannon is so unapproachably furious that it seems an entire swat team would fail to subdue him.
	www.metalunderground.com /reviews/details.cfm?reviewid=137 (519 words)

	Unrestrained! Magazine - CONVERGE - Doing Their Duty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Very few bands have been able to make an impact on the music scene as Boston’s Converge has.
		He adds, “We have made a massive commitment into this band and when you put that much time and work into the band you can really see over the years how things have grown for us.
		The worst thing for me is to see these bands that come out with a new album and are uninspired and look like they just don’t want to do it anymore.
	www.unrestrainedmag.com /v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36 (745 words)

	www.myspace.com/converge
		This page is maintained by the band and features news and info on CONVERGE and related projects.
		As a band, we aren't really interested in "internet" comments, so likely we will just be using this to send out news and info about what we are up to.
		For additional CONVERGE information that is updated daily, be sure to visit convergecult.com.
	www.myspace.com /converge (252 words)

	DECAPOLIS : Converge - You Fail Me
		As I remember it, I was doing geometry when some mediocre emo band finished their song and my ears were scorched as out of my stereo stormed one of the harshest gales of noise I had ever weathered.
		It wasn’t until my freshman year of college that I became a genuine Converge fan, when a friend of mine gave me a copy of Jane Doe, the 2001 record that saw the band firmly establish themselves as the royal family of thrash hardcore.
		There are few if any bands in heavy music today who can go blow to blow with Converge in terms of blending precise delivery and inventive song structures with unbridled passion and intentionally scaled back production levels.
	www.decapolis.com /music_/pages/Converge-YouFailMe.shtml (733 words)

	Converge: Jane Doe: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Converge is a smart, aggressive, brutal quintet, and Jane Doe will kick your ass repeatedly until it leaves its long imprint in your flabby buttflesh.
		The band slows the pace just enough so you can understand Bannon snarling, "That's where they die, that's where they suicide," amongst the lines wrought by the wiry rhythm.
		Ultimately, Converge resists easy taxonomy; they're not going to play into that guy's game of "Who's Metal?" As it is, the artwork is strangely concerned with women.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/16306/Converge_Jane_Doe (737 words)

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