Converge is continuing its hot streak towards the end of the summer, with a support slot for the one and only Meshuggah. The tour is set to take place from September, 16^th – 30^th, alongside Inn Flames and Torche. You can try and snap up any remaining tickets for the Winter shows here. Converge and Meshuggah were set to go on tour together last December. Still, the tour was postponed after one of Meshuggah’s members was announced to be “undergoing medical treatment related to a skin condition on his hands”. Converge then had to pull out of the rescheduled dates due to a conflict with their own tour dates.

The clash in question was Converge’s split headline tour with Chelsea Wolfe performing their most recent effort Bloodmoon: 1. Converge members and long-term musical partners (American singer and musician Chelsea Wolfe and her collaborator Ben Chisholm with former Converge member and Cave In vocalist Stephen Brodsky) played as a seven-piece and performed a set full of revised Converge songs.

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Converge have been churning out music pretty consistently since the mid 90’s. After their debut, Halo in a Haystack, was met with only lukewarm reception; they quickly turned to reinventing their sound to one that very quickly melded the group’s signature blend of Mathcore and Hardcore. In 2001 they released their now seminal classic, Jane Doe, an album that is an essential listen to any hardcore music fans. Even Bloodmoon: 1 received pretty good levels of praise last year, considering the lifespan of the group that’s something that not many bands can boast. “We wanted to do something grander than the typical four-piece Converge music,” frontman Jacob Bannon said in a press release. “Our dynamics are pushing and pulling in all different directions on this record, and I find that to be creatively rewarding.”

See below, the full list of UK dates on Converge’s upcoming tour:

5/11/22 – Damnation Festival – Manchester
6/11 – Electric Brixton – London

Having long been an event for those with more extreme palettes, Damnation Festival 2022 features a whole host of exciting heavy artists. First and foremost, headline sets will be performed by legendary industrial metal outfit Ministry, and the highly influential hardcore punk/metalcore titans Converge. In addition to this, the long-standing and well-revered American grindcore band Pig Destroyer will be playing at the festival, as well as death metal/grindcore group Full Of Hell, a band well known for encompassing almost all aspects of extreme music in their catalogue of work, including hardcore punk, powerviolence, death metal, sludge metal and noise rock. The band hails from Maryland, USA, and recently released their eighth full-length studio album Garden of Burning Apparitions, which sees the ambitious group taking their established sound in a more noise-rock driven direction. Check out the album here.

For those who gravitate towards the slower, more droning side of heavy music; the festival has you covered with a selection of some of the best doom/sludge metal bands out there, including Arkansas-based riff-masters Pallbearer-who will also be playing at ArcTanGent festival next year-as well as a collaborative set between Bell Witch and dark folk artist Aerial Ruin, who recorded an album together in 2020, entitled Stygian Bough Volume I.

Also on the bill are Canadian deathcore outfit Despised Icon, progressive/psychedelic rock band Elder, German thrash group Destruction, and renowned American black metallers Wolves In The Throne Room.

The festival is not all pummelling riffs and demonic growling however, as Australian post-rock band We Lost The Sea were recently added to the roster, joking on Twitter: “In fact, looks like we’re the only band that uses a clean tone”.

The announcement of the event comes mere weeks after Damnation Festival 2021 occurred, meaning that more acts will likely be announced in the coming months.

To re-iterate, Damnation Festival will take place at Bec Arena in Manchester on the 5^th of November 2022. More information about the festival can be found here, including the line-up, tickets, official Damnation Festival merchandise, and a link to the festival’s very own podcast, which features special guests such as band members and festival organisers. According to a tweet from Damnation Festival themselves, 2,000 tickets have presently been sold.