![]() ![]() Club (who also noted that Jane Doe "reaches canonical status with every re-listen"). ![]() Soon regarded as pioneers within the aggressive music arena, the band had a major breakthrough with their landmark album Jane Doe-a 2001 release praised as "iconic" by the A.V. On the album-opening "A Single Tear," pummeling drums and caustic riffs form the backdrop to strikingly vulnerable lyrics like "When I held you for the first time/I knew I had to survive." ("'A Single Tear' is about becoming a parent, and the perspective and strength it can give," Bannon notes.) With its abrasive guitar work and menacing undertones, "Under Duress" brings a tortured howl to lyrics channeling what Bannon describes as "my emotional reaction to the complex world in which we live." A frenzied blast of pure fury, "I Can Tell You About Pain" offers what NPR recently hailed as "hardcore-fueled extreme music that simultaneously elevates and destroys." And on the seven-minute-plus title track to The Dusk in Us, Converge deliver a slow-building, quietly haunting epic of ethereal beauty.Ĭonverge formed in Massachusetts in 1990, then made their debut with 1994's Halo in a Haystack. One of Converge's most dynamic and avant-garde albums to date, The Dusk In Us unfolds with an uncompromising honesty born from "writing about experiences in my life and working through the complexities of those things through song," as Bannon explains. Produced by the band and mixed by Ballou, the album matches its raw energy with a subculture-crossing inventiveness that's earned Converge longtime reverence within the punk, metal, and hardcore scenes. In recording The Dusk In Us, Converge once again worked in Ballou's renowned Godcity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts. The ninth full-length from the Boston-based heavy-music innovators-vocalist Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton, and drummer Ben Koller-The Dusk In Us proves to be both dark and hopeful, abrasive and melodic, devastating and powerfully cathartic. * Includes “Building The Beast” - a 44-page hardcover book featuring behind-the-scenes photos of "The Dusk In Us" recording session shot by Reid Haithcock * CD features a 32-page booklet and holographic mirror board jacket * Box printed on holographic mirror board * Side C & D feature 5 tracks available for the first time on 12” vinyl ![]() * Gatefold jacket printed on holographic mirror board Find out where to buy and get some sick merch at īetween Two Amps Intro Music written and performed by godcollider (Available here. We talk about how Mike first started with guitar in Massachusetts, quit music college to play rock and move to LA, almost joining LA Guns, landing the gig with Venom (BIG twist on how that cam about), taking over bass duties with Cathedral on the Ethereal Mirror tour and convincing them to stop tuning to A, getting the call from Carcass to replace Mike Amott on guitar, how to get the legendary Carcass guitar tone, how to keep a Les Paul in tune (as demonstrated on an original '59 LP Burst), and LOTS MORE!!!īetween Two Amps is now brought to you by Liquid Death! MURDER YOUR THIRST. He's played in Venom, Cronos, Carcass (Heartwork era), Cathedral (Ethereal Mirror era), and even with Daryl Hall of that little band, Hall and Oates. On this week's episode of Between Two Amps, we have an AMAZING guest, Mike Hickey. Find out where to buy and get some sick merch at - Between Two Amps Intro Music written and performed by godcollider (Available here. On this episode of Between Two Amps, we sat down with Perry Bean to get the rundown of rundowns! We talk about growing up in upstate New York, a chance encounter cleaning out a totalled car at a salvage yard that had the hardcore starter pack of tapes, getting into the punk and hardcore scene of Syracuse, taking guitar lessons from Manowar's guitarist, getting emancipated as a minor, his gear used while touring in hardcore bands, how narcolepsy nearly ended his ability to play guitar (seriously crazy story) and started him down the path of videography, opening the door at Premier Guitar for hardcore and punk bands to be featured, and lots more!!!Between Two Amps is now brought to you by Liquid Death! MURDER YOUR THIRST. ![]()
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