When Forever Comes Crashing

by Converge

When Forever Comes Crashing cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 April 1998
  • Label: Equal Vision
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:53
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 21 ratings

Artists on this release: Matt Pike, Aaron Dalbec, Stephen Brodsky, Jay Randall, Kurt Ballou, Ryan Parker, Tre McCarthy, Jacob Bannon, Jeff Feinberg, Damon Bellorado, Ben Cummings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An early landmark of chaotic metalcore, 'When Forever Comes Crashing' is an incredibly aggressive and dark exploration of technical aggression. Converge utilizes dissonant guitar work and manic vocal performances to create an anxious, angry atmosphere that pioneered the mathcore subgenre.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, technical, ferocious, relentless, harsh-vocals, distorted, dynamic

Tracklist

  1. My Unsaid Everything (3:23)
  2. The HIgh Cost of Playing God (4:17)
  3. In Harms Way (4:20)
  4. Conduit (4:10)
  5. The Lowest Common Denominator (3:53)
  6. Towing Jehovah (2:20)
  7. When Forever Comes Crashing (3:14)
  8. Ten Cents (2:20)
  9. Year of the Swine (3:47)
  10. Letterbomb (4:22)
  11. Love As Arson (3:15)
  12. Bitter and Then Some - Unreleased (1:27)

Credits

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