Video: CONVERGE New album out soon on Epitaph/Deathwish

With four landmark albums this decade alone, Converge has saved its best work for last. Vocalist Jacob Bannon talks with PopMatters about his music, his art, and his insanely talented band. Of course it's foolish to ever think an artist partially responsible for some of the most imposing, cathartic, brutally intense extreme music this decade would be "on" 100 percent of the time, but still, hearing Jacob Bannon speak quietly and lucidly on the other end of the phone line is a bit jarring. Especially when you've spent the past week leading up to this interview listening to the [...]