Converge Surprises with Second Album of 2026: Hum Of Hurt Announced Two Months After Love Is Not Enough
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Brad Sanders
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A journalist recounts how Converge surprised fans and even the author (who profiled them for Decibel) by announcing a second album, Hum Of Hurt, just two months after releasing their 10th studio album Love Is Not Enough in 2026. The piece explores the band's prolific output and the author's personal experience of being kept in the dark about the surprise release during an interview with all four members.
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· 4 pulledConverge got us good, didn't they?
On April 1, less than two months after the release of their long-awaited 10th studio album Love Is Not Enough, the Massachusetts metalcore heroes announced Hum Of Hurt, their second full-length of 2026.
I profiled Converge for the cover of Decibel back in February, and over the course of an hour-long interview with all four members of the band, no one let slip that there was another album coming on the heels of Love Is Not Enough.
There were a few moments in that interview that I clocked as odd at the time, where one member would try
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