Converge Announce New Album 'Love Is Not Enough', Share Title Track
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Jason Zucco
Converge have announced their 11th studio album.
Now in their 35th year as a band, the Boston metalcore legends will release 'Love Is Not Enough' through Epitaph Records on February 13.
Mixed by guitarist Kurt Ballou at God City Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, with engineering by Zach Weeks and artwork by vocalist Jacob Bannon, it marks the band's first proper album since 2017's 'The Dusk In Us' and 2021's 'Bloodmoon: I', the latter being a collaborative record with Chelsea Wolfe. Bannon said:
"I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre. Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.
"It does a thing that no other Converge record does - it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently, and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works."
To coincide with the announcement, the band have shared the record's fierce, emotionally intense title track and opener. Bannon explained: "It explores what it means to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. A reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future - if we can fend off the scavengers."
Converge lead the line-up for their Saddest Day Festival in Boston next month, at which they'll be joined by Touché Amoré, Coalesce, Full Of Hell, Soul Glo, and more. They'll also play Outbreak Fest London in August. Tickets are on sale now.
'Love Is Not Enough' tracklist:
1. Love Is Not Enough
2. Bad Faith
3. Distract and Divide
4. To Feel Something
5. Beyond Repair
6. Amon Amok
7. Force Meets Presence
8. Gilded Cage
9. Make Me Forget You
10. We Were Never The Same
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