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Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

Review by Marc Burrows

All We Love We Leave Behind stands toe-to-toe with the best of Converge's canon, and that means the best of modern metal.»

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closethe band's 8th studio album, 'all we love we leave behind' is the sound of a live band at the top of their game, no editing, no auto-tune or triggers. formed in salem, ma, in 1990; converge are to modern metal what the ramones were to punk, with albums like 'jane doe' and 'you fail me' considered touchstones of the genre. creating the most antagonistic and artistic heavy album of the year, the single 'aimless arrow' demonstrates the uncompromising, evolutionary new experimentation in 'all we love we leave behind', which breaks the most aggressive form of music down to its barebones. for the first time in years, 'all we love we leave behind' is an album that contains no special guests or outside collaborators and every aspect of the music, production and aesthetics of the album was handled by converge in order to give listeners an unfiltered glimpse into the creative vision of these boston-based innovators.
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