Special releases have traditionally been handled by Deathwish Inc., established by Bannon in 1999. Subsequently, Converge moved from Equal Vision Records to the considerably larger label Epitaph Records and their records gradually became more elaborate and expensive to produce. According to AllMusic, they are 'regarded as one of the most original and innovative bands to emerge from the punk underground.' Their popularity rose with the release of Jane Doe, which was ranked as the best album of 2001 by Terrorizer and later as the 61st Best Metal Album of All Time by Rolling Stone. The band's sound is rooted in both hardcore punk and extreme metal, and they are considered pioneers of metalcore as well as its subgenre mathcore.Ĭonverge have enjoyed a relatively high level of recognition. They have released nine studio albums, three live albums, and numerous EPs. Most of my work always been collaged cut/paste based (and. During the recording of their seminal fourth album Jane Doe, the group became a four-piece with the departure of guitarist Aaron Dalbec and the addition of bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller. Update, 12:13 p.m.: Jacob Bannon has now confirmed that Audrey Marnay is indeed, the woman on the cover of Jane Doe: Just to be clear: This is definitely one of the sources for the original stencil/mixed media piece for the Jane Doe album. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal, this pioneer outfit helped define a lot of the rudiments of the fast-burgeoning metalcore and mathcore genres formed by vocalist Jacob Bannon and guitarist Kurt Ballou in Salem, Massachusetts in 1990. Converge is a four-piece American band, formed in February of 1990 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

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