Converge News

LOCK UP vocalist Tomas Lindberg and the band's current touring bassist, Dan Lilker have recorded guest appearances on the new album from the Massachusetts-based hardcore/metal act CONVERGE , which is currently being recorded at CONVERGE guitarist Kurt Ballou 's Godcity studios in Salem.

La Dispute 's album Wildlife was one of my favorite post-hardcore albums of 2011.

Massachusetts-based hardcore/metal band CONVERGE will enter guitarist Kurt Ballou 's Godcity studios in Salem, Massachusetts today to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "All We Love We Leave Behind" , for a late spring/early summer release via Epitaph .

At Acheron in Brooklyn on Friday night [Kevin Baker of All Pigs Must Die 's] singing and stage presence were roughly the same: self-possessed but bristling, an act of containing endless rage more than distributing a measurable amount.

ALBUM God Is War SOUND Comprised of vocalist Kevin Baker , drummer Ben Koller , guitarist Adam Wentworth and bassist Matt Woods, All Pigs Must Die create a vicious mix of hardcore and blackened death metal on their debut album.

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting.