CONVERGE have announced a new album, “Love Is Not Enough”, arriving February 13th via Deathwish/Epitaph. The 10-piece offering was produced, recorded and mixed by the band’s guitarist Kurt Ballou at his God City studio in Salem, Massachusetts, with engineering assistance from Zach Weeks.

Also, the band released the openining/title track, “Love Is Not Enough”. Frontman Jack Bannon described their new album as following:

“It does a thing that no other CONVERGE record does — it keeps ramping up,” Bannon said in a press release. “And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”

About his band’s recording process he added:

“I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre,” Bannon said. “Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.”

“Love Is Not Enough” Tracklist:
01. Love Is Not Enough
02. Bad Faith
03. Distract and Divide
04. To Feel Something
05. Beyond Repair
06. Amon Amok
07. Force Meets Presence
08. Gilded Cage
09. Make Me Forget You
10. We Were Never The Same