Converge (US)

 

The title of their previous album, Axe to Fall (2009), may have left a bit of hope, but the music did not. The titular axe falls in the first seconds of the opening track, and then again, and again, with no end. Founded 20 years and eight albums ago in Salem, Massachusetts, these proud representatives of the American avant-garde scene combine uncompromising hardcore with the ironclad sound of extreme metal. Pitchfork goes as far as to say that “Converge are this generation’s Black Flag.” They’re coming to Katowice to promote their latest LP, All We Love We Leave Behind, slated for release this spring.