Converge announce new album

Metalcore veterans, Converge, have announced details of their eleventh studio album. Love Is Not Enough will be released on February 13, 2026 via Epitaph Records, and earlier today, the band shared the video for the title track, which you can watch / listen to below.

Speaking of the song, vocalist Jacob Bannon says that Love Is Not Enough, “Explores what it means to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. A reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future – if we can fend off the scavengers.”

Recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, Massachusetts, with engineering assistance from Zach Weeks, Love Is Not Enough sees the band exploring human imperfection in the studio. “I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre,” says Bannon. “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.”

Bannon explains that Love Is Not Enough, “Does a thing that no other Converge record does – it keeps ramping up. 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.”

The singer is also responsible for the album’s artwork and design. “We still identify this band as the outlet that’s essential to our lives,” says Bannon. “We give everything we have to it. Being past your average middle age, we’re starting to see deeper than before into a variety of places. And I don’t think that’s specific to us. I think that’s something that’s utterly relatable.”

Following their show at Saddest Day fest on December 13 Boston, MA, Converge are set to perform in the Netherlands on Thursday, June 25, 2026 at Jera on Air, Ysselsteyn, followed by a show in the U.K. at the Outbreak Festival in Manchester on Saturday, June 27, 2027.