Axe To Fall

With classic metal enjoying resurgence as bands like Mastodon introduce a new generation to the majestic riffage of Sabbath and Zeppelin, it is only right that one of the bands responsible for that resurgence, Converge, should offer up their most accessible album to date. With Axe to Fall, Converge are set to find the wider audience that the band, as pioneers of post-hardcore, so richly deserve. Formed in Salem, MA n 1990, Converge are to modern metal what the Ramones were to punk. Axe to Fall takes the band's maverick attitude to new highs; with leader Jacob Bannon finding searing melodies amidst the chaos of chords that is their hallmark, while the band's sound finds richer textures and deeper hooks than ever before. Nothing of the old Converge is sacrificed and everything is gained in what may come to be considered the band's masterpiece.