CONVERGE will release new studio album, "All We Love We Leave Behind", on October 9th, along with a deluxe package that includes a 48 page full-color hardcover, clothbound book with original art created by front-man Jacob Bannon via Epitaph (vinyl on Deathwish). The following press release was issued about the album:
"For the first time in years, "All We Love We Leave Behind" is an album that contains no special guests or outside collaborators and every aspect of the music, production and aesthetics of the album was handled by CONVERGE in order to give listeners an unfiltered glimpse into the creative vision of these Boston-based innovators.
"Recorded and mixed by guitarist Kurt Ballou at his renowned Godcity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, "All We Love We Leave Behind" is a no-frills CONVERGE album that sees the band—which also features vocalist Jacob Bannon, bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller—eschewing fancy production techniques in order to create seventeen songs that work as a cohesive whole yet can also stand on their own."
"There's no artificial distortion, triggers, or Auto-Tune on this album," Ballou explains, "it's all organic, it’s real sounds that capture the way the band performs live."
"I think we really stepped up our game on this record. The most important thing to this band is that with every album we want to create something that excites us and moves us in some way," explains Bannon. "There are a lot of subtle nuances on this record are really special to us and we definitely hit those individually on this record."
"It's always been important for us to have a lot of dynamics in our music because no one wants to listen to a million miles an hour all the time," Bannon responds when asked about the melodic mid-tempo groove of a song like "Coral Blue".
The new album's track listing is:
01. "Aimless Arrow"
02. "Trespasses"
03. "Tender Abuse"
04. "Sadness Comes Home"
05. "Empty On The Inside"
06. "Sparrow's Fall"
07. "Glacial Pace"
08. "No Light Escapes" (bonus)
09. "Vicious Muse"
10. "Veins And Veils"
11. "Coral Blue"
12. "Shame In The Way"
13. "On My Shield" (bonus)
14. "Precipice"
15. "All We Love We Leave Behind"
16. "Runaway" (bonus)
17. "Predatory Glow"
Source: www.MetalUnderground.Com