Performer Notes

Personnel: Jacob Bannon (vocals); Kurt Ballou, Nate Newton (guitar, background vocals); Ben Koller (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Kurt Ballou.
Recording information: Godcity Recording Studio.
Nearly six years in the making, the Massachusetts metalcore/punk legends' ninth studio LP serves up a punitive barrage of sonic exclamation points. Nervy, brainy, bold, and uncompromising, The Dusk in Us doesn't deviate much from the Converge playbook, and why should it? For over two decades the band has been administering lethal slabs of fractured and frenzied punk metal without a dip in quality, and with the same seasoned crew no less. Catharsis has always been the band's m.o., and the 13-track set doesn't disappoint, delivering lacerating waves of compartmentalized brutality with the kind of left-field, knotty precision that has come to define the group's post-Jane Doe career. The band and frontman Jacob Bannon are essentially symbiotic at this point; undulating beasts of sound and fury that leave everything on the studio floor. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the combustive opener, "A Single Tear," a four-minute detonation of conflicting twists and turns that eventually come together like mismatched doll parts. That inclination toward constantly tearing down and rebuilding rhythms and melodies reaches its apex on the melodic, slow-burning, and unusually epic title cut, which serves as the album's midpoint/halftime show, and suggests how Converge might have approached Radiohead's OK Computer. Singles "I Can Tell You About Pain" and "Under Duress" impress as well, with the former living up to its moniker via Bannon's apoplectic delivery, and the latter distributing the kind of aural assault usually relegated to driving gunmen out of their boarded-up homes, but to be fair, it's all good. At this point in their story arc, Bannon, Kurt Ballou, Nate Newton, and Ben Koller really don't have anything to prove, which makes it all the more impressive that they haven't let up on trying to do just that. ~ James Christopher Monger

Professional Reviews

Alternative Press - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "There are some genuine pit-starters, some full metal rave-ups and some seemingly uncharacteristic moments."

Magnet - "THE DUSK IN US explores many musical avenues to offer a broad spectrum of experience across sound and style....It's also textural, emotional, diverse and defiant..."

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Album: The Dusk in Us
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Single Tear, A
2)	Eye of the Quarrel
3)	Under Duress
4)	Arkhipov Calm
5)	I Can Tell You About Pain
6)	Dusk in Us, The
7)	Wildlife
8)	Murk & Marrow
9)	Trigger
10)	Broken by Light
11)	Cannibals
12)	Thousands of Miles Between Us
13)	Reptilian

Album: The Dusk in Us
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Single Tear, A
2)	Eye of the Quarrel
3)	Under Duress
4)	Arkhipov Calm
5)	I Can Tell You About Pain
6)	Dusk in Us, The
7)	Wildlife
8)	Murk & Marrow
9)	Trigger
10)	Broken by Light
11)	Cannibals
12)	Thousands of Miles Between Us
13)	Reptilian