Converge announce second album of 2026 with 'Hum of Hurt'

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Beloved metalcore band Converge will give fans even more music this year.

Announced today, the band will release their new album Hum of Hurt on June 5 via Deathwish/Epitaph. This is the second album from the band this year following Love Is Not Enough, which was released last month. The title track from the new album comes with a music video, which can be seen here.

Jacob Bannon said this about the new studio album, which can be pre-ordered here:

“When we came together to write, we ended up with a wealth of material. As work progressed we realized we had created two separate albums, and treated them as such.

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.

For the cover, I had a vision of an EKG signal fusing with some kind of volatile seismography. This amalgamation represents the conditions that would theoretically create a ‘Hum.’ Specifically the heart skips beats before dissolving into static. The signal is then interrupted by a seismic event at the center point of the cover. In conversation, I shared some of these ideas with artist Thomas Hooper, who offered to illustrate them using scientific diagrams as a source of inspiration. I then spent months creating a mixed media piece for the interior. The figures represent the five elements of our planet, or ‘Pancha Bhuta’: Prithvi (Earth), Ap (Water), Agni (Fire), Vayu (Air), and Akasha (Aether). I present them in the throws of chaos, as if the elements themselves are entangled in the Hum of Hurt.”

The announcement comes a day before Converge embarks on a North American tour alongside Poison The Well. Following the trek, the band will head overseas for a slew of shows in Europe and the U.K. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now here.

Converge tour dates

Apr 02 Cleveland, OH — House of Blues #

Apr 03 Chicago, IL — Concord Music Hall #

Apr 04 Pontiac, MI — Crofoot #

Apr 05 Dayton, OH — The Hidden Gem

Apr 06 New Kensington, PA — Preserving Underground #

Apr 07 Toronto, ON — History #

Apr 08 Montreal, QC — Theatre Fairmont

Apr 09 Worcester, MA — Palladium #

Apr 10 New York, NY — Knockdown Center #

Apr 11 Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore #

Apr 12 Baltimore, MD — Nevermore Hall #

May 07 Denver, CO — Summit %

May 09 Austin, TX — Stubbs Outdoors %

May 10 Houston, TX — House of Blues %

May 12 Mesa, AZ — The Nile %

May 13 Los Angeles, CA — Belasco %

May 15 Anaheim, CA — House of Blues %

Mar 16 San Diego, CA — The Observatory North Park %

May 17 San Francisco, CA — The Regency Ballroom %

Jun 25 Ysselsteyn, NL — Jera on Air

Jun 26 Rennes, FR — Superbowl of Hardcore

Jun 27 Manchester, UK — Outbreak Festival

Jun 28 Antwerp, BE — Kavka Zappa ^

Jun 29 Cologne, DE — Essigfabrik ^

Jul 01 Trutnov, CZ — Obscene Extreme Festival

Jul 02 Vienna, AT — Arena ^

Jul 03 Milan, IT — Circolo Magnolia ^

Jul 04 Viveiro, ES — Resurrection Fest

# with Poison the Well, SPY, Balmora

% with Poison the Well, The Armed, The Barbarians of California

^ with Heriot, Boneflower, Crouch

Hum of Hurt tracklisting:

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