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Today’s metal scene is full of border-crossers and unorthodox souls. Few of them, however, have been at it as long as Converge who has frightened and fascinated a growing audience since 1990.

The American four-piece’s starting point is the tortured scream from Black Flag, but Converge has taken the classic hardcore punk and refined the expression by adding math-rock and extreme metal to the equation.

The heavy and punitive music never becomes one-sided nor primitive. Rather, you sense a surgical care in the band's almost sadistically intrusive mixture of aggression and precision.

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