New Converge Video - "Axe To Fall"

When we posted "Dark Horse" I went into some detail (aka babbled) about how much I like Converge's seventh album Axe To Fall. It's easier to backup the enthusiasm with a second bullet in the chamber in the form of the suffocating title track. Axe, the album, introduces new wrinkles into Converge's attack (the aforementioned piano, glockenspiel, saxophone, etc.), but this song's a straight-to-the-neck old-school kicker. For the video, director Craig Murray goes the seizure-inducing horror route complete with a haunted house, torturous brain-frying headgear, animated wire bondage, and a pregnant television.

Here's another listen to the blitzkrieg opener "Dark Horse":

Converge - "Dark Horse" (MP3)

Axe To Fall is out 10/20 via Epitaph.

Posted at 1:31 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Converge

14 Comments

god converge is so friggin good

Posted by: CHIP at 10/08/09 3:06 PM  | Reply
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their new album is SO GOOD! i'm glad to see stereogum covering these guys. pure talent and brutality!

Posted by: Nils at 10/08/09 3:25 PM  | Reply
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I don't understand how people think the new mastodon album can hold up against a band like Converge. Classic rock? psshHaw...

Posted by: Alec at 10/08/09 4:10 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, Crack the Skye is average at best. I tried giving it various benefits of the doubt, but I finally realized my doubt was the truth. At least to these ears...

Posted by: brandon  in reply to Alec's comment at 10/08/09 4:21 PM  | Reply
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What the fuck is this shit now?

Posted by: WallabyJoe at 10/08/09 4:22 PM  | Reply
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No Thanks

Posted by: I at 10/08/09 4:39 PM  | Reply
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i'm either not on the right site or clicked a link for saw VI, this is just crap.

Posted by: d@ve at 10/08/09 5:20 PM  | Reply
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So amazing, I haven't listened to them for years.

Posted by: andy at 10/08/09 6:33 PM  | Reply
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...just crap

Posted by: d@ve at 10/08/09 7:54 PM  | Reply
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"just crap"

care to elaborate on that at all, or are you just getting a bit tetchy waiting for that new Animal Collective Record?

Posted by: DS at 10/08/09 9:57 PM  | Reply
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I think everyone who works at AP magazine just spaffed...LOL..panty shots in a "horror" video

Posted by: Alice at 10/08/09 10:35 PM  | Reply
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WTF...? Panty shots...?!

Posted by: Convergence at 10/08/09 10:39 PM  | Reply
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I can't wait to spin this record. This group are my hands-down favourite metal act of the decade.

Posted by: rob at 10/09/09 7:19 AM  | Reply
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let's go ahead and replace "are" with "is" in that last sentence. got so excited i forgot to grammar.

Posted by: rob  in reply to rob's comment at 10/09/09 7:20 AM  | Reply
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