Converge Unleash “Doom In Bloom,” a Brutal New Preview of Hum Of Hurt

The run of new Converge material just keeps coming. In February, the Boston metallic hardcore institution returned with Love Is Not Enough, their first proper non-collaborative album in nine years, and now they are already lining up another full-length. Hum Of Hurt arrives next month, and the latest single, “Doom In Bloom,” makes it clear the band is still operating at full force.

After the album’s title track, “Doom In Bloom” lands like a body blow. While frontman Jacob Bannon has described Hum Of Hurt as leaning toward an emotional hardcore record, this song feels more physically destabilizing than cathartic in any conventional sense. It lurches and mutates through jagged, math-leaning rhythms with a nauseating momentum, as if Unsane wandered into a Don Caballero rehearsal and refused to leave. It is ugly in exactly the right way.

Bannon framed the track’s intent directly in a press statement:

“It’s dark and pointed right at you. Lyrically, I’m exploring how my own middle-aged introspection doesn’t always bring a brighter light. I see my own trappings reflected in those around me. Here I am imploring them to slip the noose to see another day.”

The George Gallardo Kattah-directed video matches that tone with blood-soaked severity, pushing the song’s claustrophobic tension even further.

Hum Of Hurt is due June 5 via Deathwish, Inc. and Epitaph.