Converge released the great Love Is Not Enough, their first proper album in 9 years, in February, and it turns out that’s not the only new release we’re getting from them this year. After teasing it with a billboard in Boston (and inadvertently via information that leaked via DSPs in recent days), Converge have announced their twelfth album, Hum of Hurt, due out June 5 via Deathwish/Epitaph. As usual, it was recorded and mixed by guitarist Kurt Ballou, with engineering assistance from Zach Weeks, and artwork by the band’s Jacob Bannon and UK artist Thomas Hooper.
We have an exclusive vinyl variant of Hum of Hurt, limited to 500 copies. The color is “Ghost” which matches the exclusive we had of their first LP this year. This one again also comes with an exclusive 19″x25″ silk-screened album wrap designed by Bannon and printed on 3-layer Mirror Silver by Nightswim Project. Pre-order yours here.
About the band’s prolific output this year, Bannon says, “When we came together to write, we ended up with a wealth of material. As work progressed we realized we had created two separate albums, and treated them as such.” He adds, “It’s not a sequel. The unifying musical idea early on was, ‘Let’s make a noise rock album.’ But we never really did. The first one wasn’t. This one touches on that spirit, but it’s much more dynamic than that descriptor. To me, it leans more into being an emotional hardcore album, while Love Is Not Enough feels more metal leaning album. In the end, we simply gave creative birth to another Converge record with its own unique identity and character.”
Bannon also discussed the cover art:
For the cover, I had a vision of an EKG signal fusing with some kind of volatile seismography. This amalgamation represents the conditions that would theoretically create a “Hum.” Specifically the heart skips beats before dissolving into static. The signal is then interrupted by a seismic event at the center point of the cover. In conversation, I shared some of these ideas with artist Thomas Hooper, who offered to illustrate them using scientific diagrams as a source of inspiration. I then spent months creating a mixed media piece for the interior. The figures represent the five elements of our planet, or “Pancha Bhuta”: Prithvi (Earth), Ap (Water), Agni (Fire), Vayu (Air), and Akasha (Aether). I present them in the throws of chaos, as if the elements themselves are entangled in the Hum of Hurt.
They’ve shared the title track, and you can watch the video below. “I’ve given 35 years of my life to creating art and music,” Bannon says. “I appreciate the creative home and support this community has given, yet rarely is space left for anything else. These lyrics are me looking in a mirror, recognizing that I am not the man I want to be. I need change, and still have work to do.”
Converge will be on tour with Poison the Well this spring, including East Coast shows with Spy and Balmora, and West Coast dates with The Armed and Barbarians of California.
The NYC show of that tour is on April 10 at Knockdown Center, and you can see all dates below.
Balmora also just announced a new album, and we have an exclusive vinyl variant of that too.
CONVERGE – HUM OF HURT TRACKLIST
Slip The Noose
Doom In Bloom
It Only Gets Worse
Detonator
I Won’t Let You Go
It’s Not Up To Us
Dream Debris
It Used To Matter
Hum Of Hurt
Nothing Is Over
CONVERGE: 2026 TOUR DATES
Apr 02 Cleveland, OH — House of Blues #
Apr 03 Chicago, IL — Concord Music Hall #
Apr 04 Pontiac, MI — Crofoot #
Apr 05 Dayton, OH — The Hidden Gem
Apr 06 New Kensington, PA — Preserving Underground #
Apr 07 Toronto, ON — History #
Apr 08 Montreal, QC — Theatre Fairmont
Apr 09 Worcester, MA — Palladium #
Apr 10 New York, NY — Knockdown Center #
Apr 11 Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore #
Apr 12 Baltimore, MD — Nevermore Hall #
May 07 Denver, CO — Summit %
May 09 Austin, TX — Stubbs Outdoors %
May 10 Houston, TX — House of Blues %
May 12 Mesa, AZ — The Nile %
May 13 Los Angeles, CA — Belasco %
May 15 Anaheim, CA — House of Blues %
Mar 16 San Diego, CA — The Observatory North Park %
May 17 San Francisco, CA — The Regency Ballroom %
Jun 25 Ysselsteyn, NL — Jera on Air
Jun 26 Rennes, FR — Superbowl of Hardcore
Jun 27 Manchester, UK — Outbreak Festival
Jun 28 Antwerp, BE — Kavka Zappa ^
Jun 29 Cologne, DE — Essigfabrik ^
Jul 01 Trutnov, CZ — Obscene Extreme Festival
Jul 02 Vienna, AT — Arena ^
Jul 03 Milan, IT — Circolo Magnolia ^
Jul 04 Viveiro, ES — Resurrection Fest
# with Poison the Well, SPY, Balmora
% with Poison the Well, The Armed, The Barbarians of California
^ with Heriot, Boneflower, Crouch