HOLY SH*T, THE NEW CONVERGE SONG IS F*CKING AMAZING

I want you to know that I am stone-cold sober right now. There is no weed in my system. I am not influenced by anything other than the power of music.

There is a new Converge song, “Dark Horse,” streaming on the band’s MySpace page right now. It comes off of their new album, Axe to Fall. And it is fucking incredible.

The whole band sounds so furious and so tight. Kurt Ballou seems to be playing some metallic jig; this has to be one of the most instantly memorable Converge riffs since “Homewrecker.” I don’t know if someone was actually holding a gun to Ben Koller’s head when he was playing or if it just sounds that way. Or maybe they were holding the gun to Nate Newton’s head, and told Koller  if he didn’t give the most furious performance of his career thus far, his friend would get it. Jacob Bannon still sounds like the kind of dude who gets a tattoo right across his Adam’s apple. Which he is.

It’s MySpace so it’s hard to know for sure, but the production also sounds a little crisper and brighter to me than it was on previous Converge releases. All the better to highlight the stellar performances of the band.

This is incredibly encouraging. I absolutely cannot fucking wait to hear the rest of Axe to Fall. It comes out October 20 on Epitaph.

-AR