Converge is working on their first new material since The Dusk In Us in 2017, and it's apparently a rager. According to Converge drummer Ben Koller in a handful of tweets, the band's upcoming new material could very well be their best (and possibly most diverse) yet.
"There is A LOT of new Converge material. I feel like I'm at Old Country metalcore Buffet and all the foods are RIFFS," wrote Koller. "It's all over the place. We have crowdkilling, Fugazi, Mars Volta, Entombed, mathcore madness, slow Nate riffs where I play too fast, shitty riffs, emo riffs…This could be our best album yet no joke. We should proably ditch the shitty riffs though"
Koller continued in a separate response to a fan who asked how it stacks up to No Heroes: "Hard to say what the finished product will be but I will say that this feels like the most evolved, natural and fully realized bunch of material we have ever written. It's tough to try and compare it to other albums. No Heroes feels like another lifetime at this point."
As for another collaboration with Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man, etc.), Chelsea Wolfe, and Wolfe's longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm under the Bloodmoon banner, Converge frontman Jacob Bannon recently said in an interview with Talking Records that it's coming along.
"There is a Bloodmoon: II — and hopefully more will be recorded… A lot of music when we initially the first Bloodmoon sessions, and it's just sort of mutating and evolving into its own thing," said Bannon. "Definitely Ben and Chelsea are involved, and Steve's involved. We might have some other people work with us too that are friends. Just, you know, put something together that is sonically interesting to us.
He continued: "We'll get there, it's just there's only so much time in the day. We want to be able to travel and do our normal bands too. So, we're trying to make time for it. We will."
