Rating: 0.5/5
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The worst album of the year AND Mind Over Metal Limerick #4? I think so!

Brett Gurewitz is not involved.

Converge – Axe to Fall released October 20, 2009 on Epitaph Words cannot capture the depths of my frustration with the Massachusetts metalcore pioneers, who have been challenging heavy music audiences for nearly two tenacious decades. This changes now. I appreciated this album from the moment it emerged from the beautiful, grimy, and cryptic artwork of Jacob Bannon. Now his vocals have––and still––put me off some of the time (they command your full attention, even with the lyrics in hand), but I was f’n determined. See, I/you/we all need this band on our maps. Some are calling this their [...read more]

No one does stream-of-consciousness-rock-cum-metalcore with lyrics this clever or insightful, invoking everything from Shakespeare to nursery rhymes to infinite regression theory. Rocking an engaging fiery swagger while expanding and exploring one’s core is no mean feat, but ETID fearlessly charge forward.