Bloodmoon: I

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AlbumNov 19 / 202111 songs, 58m 48s
Atmospheric Sludge Metal Gothic Metal
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After 30 years together, the hardcore dynamos hit a nadir. Their collaborative album with Chelsea Wolfe and Stephen Brodsky is exhausting and predictable, a ceaseless barrage of the banal.

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With help from special guests like Chelsea Wolfe, the Boston hardcore greats take a detour into mellower moodiness

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Hardcore legends Converge jam with Chelsea Wolfe and Cave In to expand their horizons on collaborative album Bloodmoon: I…

Since emerging in the early '90s, Converge have remained innovative and open to collaboration, carving out their mercurial sound alongside Cave In, the Hope Conspiracy, Genghis Tron, Neurosis, and Disfear, among others. On Bloodmoon: I, the metalcore/mathcore pioneers team up with doom-folk songstress Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm, and Cave In vocalist/guitarist Steve Brodsky for a mesmerizing 11-song set that pairs bracing hardcore with expansive symphonic and post-metal. This propagated version of the band, which at the time also included Neurosis' Steve Von Till, made its debut at the 2016 Roadburn Festival in The Netherlands under the Blood Moon moniker.

On Converge's tenth studio album, the band enlist goth-rock artist Chelsea Wolfe to create a record unlike anything they've produced before

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Ellis Heasley reviews the new collaborative album from hardcore legends Converge. Read the review of Bloodmoon: I here on Distorted Sound!

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"Spinning the record reveals harrowing atmospherics, a sense of grandiosity, devastating emotional weight and wrenching mood swings all woven around a diverse stanchion of extreme music."

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Metalcore pioneers Converge unite with Chelsea Wolfe and Cave In's Stephen Brodsky to craft a brooding work of goth-inflected metal with 'Bloodmoon: I'.

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Bloodmoon: I by Converge Album Review by Gregory Adams. The full-length is now available via Deathwish Inc./Epitaph Records

The band’s long-awaited collaboration with dark rocker Wolfe is slower and more melodic than their usual albums, yet even heavier

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Converge - Bloodmoon: I review: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of th"CONVERGE!