Converge worked overtime on their last trip to the studio, resulting in two albums. The first was released back in February, and now the second of those, The Hum Of Hurt (Epitaph Records), is dropping. The buzz going into this album was that it was their Noise Rock album. And even Jacob Bannon admits that it is not a mark they hit. The opening track finds their feral speed dialed down a bit, but it is pretty metallic otherwise, just more deliberate and not as chaotic. Bannon’s vocals are not as snarled on “Doom In Bloom,” which is where the biggest change on this album lies in his more Punk-like vocal approach, replacing a great deal of his normal larynx-shredding approach.
