Photo by Jason Zucco

If you haven’t caught your breath yet from fending off the void with the return of Converge after a 9-year non-collaborative studio album silence in the great Love Is Not Enough, hurry up, or you won’t have much time to recover for the next round of pain management.

The Boston metalcore luminaries are in the midst of a prolific sprint of creativity this year, announcing their second album of 2026, Hum of Hurt — an album born from, as frontman Jacob Bannon puts it, an intention to make a noise rock album from the wealth of new material the four-piece had written, but ultimately leans into the more raw and guttural emotive hardcore examination of the self. Imagine them harkening back to the face of intensity which they initially erupted onto the scene with, now all the wiser in the mirror.

As for that hum, the album’s title track places this loudly into context in doing its most to replicate a mysterious scientific phenomena of sound that’s been tracked at 30 and 40 hertz. It’s purported to have driven those who’ve heard it across the world mad. The band’s interpretation of this energy is “the culmination of all the pain in the world”, which they interpret through a fast-smashing of hardcore beatdowns while rhythmically grinding whatever is left as Bannon shouts at its cruelty. Here, the hum blisters into view for those who’ve never audibly experienced it themselves.

Converge’s Hum of Hurt will be released June 5th on Deathwish Inc. / Epitaph Records.