Converge - The Dusk in Us (2017) – Heading the hardcore vanguard

Coming out of a 5-year hiatus without any new material, Converge was able to make 2017 a great year for hardcore with the release of "The Dusk In Us." Attending several lists of best of the year the band comes increasingly establishing a progressive hardcore with its own signature.

"The Dusk in Us" takes up exactly the next step of the previous album "All We Love We Leave Behind". A Single Tear opens with the typical speed of hardcore but without the chaotic musical mess and its disconnected riffs. It still sounds noisy, but there is a melody that lingers in the most dramatic moments and accelerates in moments of fury. Jacob Bannon's vocals are full of feelings and the shouted choruses are loaded with an authentic impetuosity. In some moments the sound follows the more traditional line of the explosive hardcore like the Eye of the Quarrel, I Can Tell You About Pain and Cannibals. The progressive side shows its intricate mArkhipov Calm and Wildlife. Also worthy of mention are Trigger with his bass which creates the sense of musical kinesis, Broken by Light with one foot in the thrash metal bay and Repitilian loaded with venomous doom groove. But the maximum sound potential of the album is in the self-titled track The Dusk in Us. Betting on innovation composition is a lull wicked island within a raging ocean. Framed in a haunting climate, it evolves in a rhythmic way to the frenzied and suffering screams "Dusk live within us, Darkness will not give up".
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By creating a textured sound, Converge manages to innovate within hardcore while preserving the musical essence of style. Attending lists of the best of the year is easy task, the hard one is to be one of the heads in an avant-garde movement that hardcore adopted in this decade.

TrackList
1.A Single Tear 3:59
2.Eye of the Quarrel 2:14
3.Under Duress 3:42
4.Arkhipov Calm 2:53
5.I Can Tell You About Pain 2:23
6.The Dusk in Us 7:23
7.Wildlife 2:29
8.Murk & Marrow 3:01
9.Trigger 3:33
10.Broken by Light 1:46
11.Cannibals 1:15
12.Thousands of Miles Between Us 4:42
13.Reptilian 4:33

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Marcelo Hissa