LIVE: Outbreak Festival 2026 – Saturday

Day two of Outbreak 2026 sees the opening of a larger outdoor stage, which subsequently becomes the festival’s main stage. It’s a mixed blessing given the blistering sun which reflects off the surrounding concrete into the melting eyes of an audience of punks. Nonetheless, with three stages and a

Converge – ‘HUM OF HURT’

In 2024, the BBC aired a four-part series called The Listeners. Based on the Jordan Tannahill novel, the drama follows Claire, an English teacher driven to insanity by a continuous and inexplicable ambient sound. While the story is fictional, the phenomenon, known as “the hum”, is well-documented. Instances of

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Converge – ‘Love Is Not Enough’

Nine years have passed since the release of Converge’s last album, ‘The Dusk In Us’. While the more recent ‘Bloodmoon: I’ – the band’s admirably ambitious collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe – prevented the passing of a near-decade of Converge-less time, the wait for a new Converge album proper has

Arcangent Festival 2023 – Thursday

LIVE: ArcTanGent Festival 2023 – Thursday

Thursday was perhaps the most stacked day on the entire bill, with hardcore legends Converge headlining the mainstage. The undercard is also stellar, with Svalbard, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, and Chat Pile particularly standing out. None of them are household names, but all of them have

Dance Gavin Dance – ‘Afterburner’

Dance Gavin Dance have become a real force to be reckoned with over the last few years.  Forming back in 2005, they were quickly picked up by Rise Records and released a slew of powerful and varied albums, quietly plagued by line up changes and complicated

LIVE: Converge / Terror / Sect / Fange @ The Ritz, Manchester

Being the opening act for a seminal, vastly influential band like Converge must be beyond nerve-wracking. Being that act on just a couple of weeks’ notice because the original opener pulled out last minute, doubly so. With that in mind, fair play to Fange for getting up there and

Converge, Crowbar, Thou @ Electric Ballroom, London

LIVE: Converge / Crowbar / Thou @ Electric Ballroom, London

Massachusetts hardcore legends Converge are a bit beyond introduction at this point. Over the last three decades they’ve cemented themselves as an absolutely essential band, both on record and in a live environment. Following the release of 2017’s sublime ‘The Dusk In Us’, Converge are treating the UK to