Converge is back and they’re here to utterly fuck your day up. Converge has just announced their new record Love Is Not Enough for February 13, 2026, and is now streaming the title track alongside a music video by George Gallardo Kattah. Which I missed the first time because I was too busy getting my ass beaten by the music.
Love Is Not Enough features no special guests, no studio trickery, no relentless massaging of human imperfection in trying to manufacture the perfect take. “I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre,” Bannon said.
“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.”
Bannon continued: “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.”
Love Is Not Enough was recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, MA, with engineering assistance from Zach Weeks. Jacob Bannon did the artwork and design, creating an image for each song and a commanding cover depicting a celestial witness to a world aflame.
“We still identify this band as the outlet that’s essential to our lives,” Bannon said. “We give everything we have to it. Being past your average middle age, we’re starting to see deeper than before into a variety of places. And I don’t think that’s specific to us. I think that’s something that’s utterly relatable.”
Converge will perform at Saddest Day fest on December 13 in Boston, MA with Touché Amoré, Coalesce, The Hope Conspiracy, Full of Hell, Soul Glo and more. Pre-order Love Is Not Enough here.
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