All We Love We Leave Behind Artwork

Today, my quest of collecting information about Converge's All We Love We Leave Behind continues with a low-res pic of the album's cover, and details about the album's multiple release formats.

All We Love We Leave Behind Promo

I have been religiously checking various websites in an attempt to discover information about Converge's upcoming album All We Love We Leave Behind before the major media outlets get to it. Why? Because words cannot even describe how excited I am for this album, and because I'm always amused how I can find leaked information before everyone else. Cheap thrills I suppose. For example, I recently discovered the album art, track listing and 30 second samples of The Chariot's One Wing weeks before everyone else.

Today I noticed that Deathwish updated their page for Converge with a promo/press release thing about the new album. Check it out after the jump.

Predictions: Converge's 'All We Love We Leave Behind'

If you've been following along, I like to make predictions about upcoming albums based on very little evidence. Sometimes I'm spot on, other times I'm way off. But I have fun doing it either way! Here's what I think about Converge's All We Love We Leave Behind today -- which still hasn't yet been officially announced by their label.

Y NO COVERZ???

What better way to pay tribute to a highly influential band than to cover one of their songs. They can either completely destroy the song or really highlight what we all loved about it to begin with. Either way, it's (usually) a great honor to have one of your songs covered. But there's one group of bands that I've NEVER seen a single cover from.

I've Got a Bone to Pick with "Mathcore"

People like to categorize things, plain and simple. When left in the hands of scientists, we get properly organized lists such as the periodic table of elements and the taxonomic ranking system. When left up to children with an internet connection, we get a collection of totally made-up musical genres such as mathcore. This article also features a special guest appearance by the proverbial fourteen-year-old dude.

The Future of Hardcore is... Ambient?

So I decided that this blog would originally be about reviewing albums and posting news updates, but I'm having far more fun posting my own original research on trends, past and present. One trend I noticed late last year was an increasing interest in ambient music side projects from members of heavy and hardcore bands.