Converge announce new album, Hum of Hurt

Hum of Hurt follows Love Is Not Enough, released back in February, as Converge's second full-length release of 2026. It offers another examination of the deterioration of the human condition from the band, with title track "Hum of Hurt" arrives as the first preview of the new album.

Speaking about the song, vocalist and lyricist Jacob Bannon says: “I’ve given 35 years of my life to creating art and music. I appreciate the creative home and support this community has given, yet rarely is space left for anything else. These lyrics are me looking in a mirror, recognizing that I am not the man I want to be. I need change, and still have work to do.”

Hum of Hurt — recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, Massachusetts, with engineering assistance from Zach Weeks — is not meant to serve as a follow-up to Love Is Not Enough, but a product of Converge having enough material to distribute across two separate works.

As Bannon explains of the album: “It’s not a sequel. The unifying musical idea early on was, ‘Let’s make a noise rock album.’ But we never really did. The first one wasn’t. This one touches on that spirit, but it’s much more dynamic than that descriptor. To me, it leans more into being an emotional hardcore album, while Love Is Not Enough feels more metal leaning album. In the end, we simply gave creative birth to another Converge record with its own unique identity and character.”

Hum of Hurt artwork

Hum of Hurt tracklist

"Slip The Noose"
"Doom In Bloom"
"It Only Gets Worse"
"Detonator"
"I Won't Let You Go"
"It's Not Up To Us"
"Dream Debris"
"It Used To Matter"
"Hum Of Hurt"
"Nothing Is Over"